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Tetrazole tethered polymers for alkaline anion exchange membranes

  • Erigene Bakangura ,
  • Yubin He ,
  • Xiaolin Ge ,
  • Yuan Zhu ,
  • Liang Wu ,
  • Jin Ran ,
  • Congliang Cheng ,
  • Kamana Emmanuel ,
  • Zhengjin Yang ,
  • Tongwen Xu
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  • CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Material Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

Received date: 31 Jul 2017

Accepted date: 10 Oct 2017

Published date: 09 May 2018

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2018 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature

Abstract

Poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) was tethered with a 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole through a quaternary ammonium linkage. The formation of a tetrazole-ion network in the resulting polymers was found to promote the hydroxide ion transport through the Grotthus-type mechanism.

Cite this article

Erigene Bakangura , Yubin He , Xiaolin Ge , Yuan Zhu , Liang Wu , Jin Ran , Congliang Cheng , Kamana Emmanuel , Zhengjin Yang , Tongwen Xu . Tetrazole tethered polymers for alkaline anion exchange membranes[J]. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2018 , 12(2) : 306 -310 . DOI: 10.1007/s11705-017-1690-7

Acknowledgement

This project has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 91534203) and K. C. Wong Education Foundation (2016-11). Erigene Bakangura is grateful to CAS-TWAS President’s fellowship for PhD programs.

Electronic Supplementary Material

Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-017-1690-7 and is accessible for authorized users.
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