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Cover Picture: Engineering the Van der Waals Interaction in Cross‐Linking‐Free Hydroxide Exchange Membranes for Low Swelling and High Conductivity (ChemSusChem 5/2012)
Author(s) -
Gu Shuang,
Skovgard Jason,
Yan Yushan S.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201290018
Subject(s) - van der waals force , membrane , swelling , conductivity , hydroxide , ionic bonding , polymer , cover (algebra) , proton , materials science , chemical engineering , chemistry , polymer chemistry , nanotechnology , polymer science , organic chemistry , physics , composite material , engineering , ion , molecule , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , quantum mechanics
Physical crosslinking: A typical trade‐off between ionic conductivity and dimensional stability exists in hydroxides as well as in proton exchange membranes. In their Communication on page 843 , Y. S. Yan et al. report a simple and effective strategy which utilizes direct tuning of van der Waals interactions among polymer chains to successfully reduce membrane‐swelling and increase hydroxide‐conductivity. This Communication, as well as the other papers in this issue of ChemSusChem, form part of a Special Issue in collaboration with the Dalian Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.