Development of opto-electronic polymers has been focused on conjugated rigid-rod polymers which assume a para-catenated backbone yielding a rod-like configuration. As a consequence of their rigidity, the rod-like molecules display superior mechanical properties, thermo-oxidative stability and solvent resistance. The later two characters cause difficulties in processing these high-performance rigid-rod polymers. This in terms limits their applications in critical technologies, such as conducting polymers, nonlinear optics, and solid polyelectrolytes.
In this study, chemical derivatives of the rigid-rod polymers were synthesized using pendants of propane-sulfonated ionomers to (1) enhance the solubility of the rigid-rod polymers, and (2) generate a solid polyelectrolyte suitable for energy storage. Extensive synthesis efforts were focused on generating monomers and polymers of propane-sulfonated poly(p-phenylene-benzobisimidazole), PBI, making it a water soluble electrolyte. Various analysis techniques were applied to ascertain the chemical structure and the purity of the monomers and of the polymers. The polymer molecular weight was also determined using viscometry. An intrinsic viscosity of 4.9 dL/g was achieved for the 2-sulfo-PBI and of 0.58 dL/g for the propane-sulfonated PBI with Na+ ionomer pendants
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0801100-162755 |
| Date | 01 August 2000 |
| Creators | Kuo, Chien-Hung |
| Contributors | Ming Chen, Jin-Long Hong, S. J. Bai |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0801100-162755 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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