Ionic liquid entrapment by an electrospun polymer nanofiber matrix as a high conductivity polymer electrolyte

By Datta, R. S.; Said, S. M.; Shahrir, S. R.; Abdullah, Norbani; Sabri, M. F. M.; Balamurugan, S.; Miyazaki, Y.; Hayashi, K.; Hashim, N. A.; Habiba,
Published in RSC Adv. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015

Abstract

Through external doping, novel conductive polymer nanofibers were successfully fabricated using ionic liquids. In this study, a polymer blend of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and chitosan (CS) in a 4 : 1 weight ratio was fabricated in the form of nanofibers through electrospinning and used as a scaffold membrane to capture room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), such as 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazoli

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