NSF Award
9960731
This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project concerns with the development of<br/>novel nano-structured polymer electrolytes (NSPE) for solid state Li-ion batteries, low<br/>cost, 'dye sensitized' solar cells and electrochromic devices. The electrolytes feature<br/>high ionic conductivity and excellent mechanical strength, resulting from an ordered<br/>structure on the manometer scale consisting of an epoxy scaffold and a polymer electrolyte<br/>network. The unique structure is obtained by self-assembly during curing of the epoxy in<br/>the presence of an immiscible block copolymer containing the ion-conducting phase.
