Jaeyong Lee, Emily E. Abdo, Cody Pratt, Yong Hyun Kwon, Jaeeon Lim, Vivaan Patel, Lilin He, Nitash P. Balsara
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We studied blend electrolytes comprising poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), poly(pentyl malonate) (PPM), and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI). Ion transport in the blend electrolytes resembles transport in PEO/LiTFSI and PPM/LiTFSI systems. The thermodynamic properties of the PEO/PPM/LiTFSI blend electrolytes were studied by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). The effect of added salt on polymer blend thermodynamics is quantified by an effective Flory–Huggins interaction parameter, χeff. The blend electrolytes exhibit one-phase, and χeff is negative at all salt concentrations. This is noteworthy because the addition of salt generally leads to macrophase-separation in polymer blends.
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Macromolecules publishes original, fundamental, and impactful research on all aspects of polymer science. Topics of interest include synthesis (e.g., controlled polymerizations, polymerization catalysis, post polymerization modification, new monomer structures and polymer architectures, and polymerization mechanisms/kinetics analysis); phase behavior, thermodynamics, dynamic, and ordering/disordering phenomena (e.g., self-assembly, gelation, crystallization, solution/melt/solid-state characteristics); structure and properties (e.g., mechanical and rheological properties, surface/interfacial characteristics, electronic and transport properties); new state of the art characterization (e.g., spectroscopy, scattering, microscopy, rheology), simulation (e.g., Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, multi-scale/coarse-grained modeling), and theoretical methods. Renewable/sustainable polymers, polymer networks, responsive polymers, electro-, magneto- and opto-active macromolecules, inorganic polymers, charge-transporting polymers (ion-containing, semiconducting, and conducting), nanostructured polymers, and polymer composites are also of interest. Typical papers published in Macromolecules showcase important and innovative concepts, experimental methods/observations, and theoretical/computational approaches that demonstrate a fundamental advance in the understanding of polymers.
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