IL-copolymer@Nano-ceramics

Recently, much attention has been paid to polymerized ionic liquids or polymeric ionic liquids, which are macromolecules obtained from polymerizing ionic liquid monomers. Their can potentially applied in the field of catalytic membranes, ionic conductive materials, CO₂ absorbing materials, porous materials, etc. One of our current research focuses is based on the diblock copolymers with one ionic liquid polymer block. Beside their stabilizing effect of ceramic nanoparticles in solution, they will be self-assembled in bulk and used as template for various nano-ordered carbon  or metal oxide ceramics.