2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of zig-zag polymers with two-dementional motility
Project/Area Number |
26810067
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Polymer chemistry
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Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Principal Investigator |
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Research Collaborator |
SATO Takahiro
INOUE Tomoharu
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Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Keywords | 高分子合成 / 高分子物性 / 超分子化学 / ラダーポリマー / アニオン交換膜 / 高分子反応 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The research filed of ladder polymers, in which the repeating units are connected by more than two bonds, still remain unexplored due to their synthetic difficulty. In this study, (1) application of ladder polymers to the anion-exchange membranes, and (2) development of new class of ladder polymers featuring conformational flexibility, were carried out . In the research #1, we showed that a free-standing membrane that consists of a spirobiindane-based rigid ladder polymer carrying trimethylammonium hydroxide groups exhibited a good OH conductivity of 65 mS/cm at 80 °C under 100% relative humidity, which demonstrates its potential for use in solid-state alkaline fuel cells. In the research #2, we developed an efficient and convenient synthetic protocol to give conformationally flexible ladder polymers with diazacyclooctane skeleton in the main chain, which relies on a post-polymerization ring-opening reaction of a Troeger’s base-containing ladder polymer.
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Free Research Field |
高分子化学
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