材料科学
Nafion公司
复合材料
电极
离子液体
执行机构
电容
堆积
聚合物
电活性聚合物
人工肌肉
电化学
计算机科学
化学
生物化学
物理化学
人工智能
催化作用
有机化学
作者
Sangwoon Lee,Lira Hwang,Jang Yeol Lee,Taewook Yang,Jae Young Jho,Jong Hyuk Park
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.snb.2022.132616
摘要
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) with water as an internal solvent (water-IPMCs) lose all their function after 20 minutes of actuation due to water depletion, despite superb initial performance. Studies have attempted to replace water with ionic liquid (IL), but conventionally made IL-based IPMCs (conventional IL-IPMCs) maintained only a quarter of displacement and blocking force of water-IPMCs. Here, we propose a new method in which a polymer membrane is soaked with IL at high temperatures, and then stacked between two individually-prepared electrode layers. The layers were combined through compression, and the resulting IPMCs (stacked IL-IPMCs) had a surface resistance 10 times lower than conventional IL-IPMCs, and showed actuation performance comparable to water-IPMCs. More importantly, stacked IL-IPMCs maintained more than 95% of their performance even after several days of actuation. This is a level of stability that has not been reported and therefore a huge breakthrough in the development of IPMC actuators. • Ionic liquid-based IPMC was made by stacking individual layers of Nafion and Pt • Soaking Nafion in IL at high temperature raised its swelling and ionic conductivity • Stacking method prevented electrode damage, lowering the surface resistance of IPMC • Reduced resistance and enhanced capacitance enabled superb actuation performance • Multiday operation of IPMC was achieved due to electrochemical stability of IL
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