Organic Radical Polymers (eBook)

Sanjoy Mukherjee is currently a postdoctoral research associate working with Prof. Bryan W. Boudouris in the Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Sanjoy earned his undergraduate and graduate chemistry degrees at the University of Calcutta and the Indian Institute of Science respectively. Sanjoy has also worked at the Institüt für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Germany as a DAAD sponsored visiting fellow during his doctoral studies. His current research interests focuses on the structure-property relationships, optical properties, and charge transport mechanisms in radical polymers.​Bryan W. Boudouris is the Robert and Sally Weist Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and an Associate Professor of Chemistry (by courtesy) in the Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Professor Boudouris earned undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Minnesota, respectively.  After the completion of his doctoral studies, he held a joint post-doctoral researcher position at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Professor Boudouris started his independent academic career at Purdue University in August 2011, and the work of his group focuses on the synthesis, nanostructural characterization, and implementation of functional macromolecules for advanced energy, water, and security applications.

Acknowledgements 6
Contents 7
About the Authors 9
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Radical Polymers 10
1.1 Organic Materials in Modern Life 10
1.2 Organic Radicals 14
1.3 The Chemistry of Reactive Radicals 14
1.4 Opportunities for Stable Radicals 16
1.5 Radicals as Basic Units of Polymeric Structures 18
1.5.1 Radical Polymers 19
1.5.2 Polyradicals 19
1.6 Physical Properties of Radical Polymers 21
1.7 Chapter Summary 21
References 22
Chapter 2: Syntheses of Radical Polymers 25
2.1 Expectations and Synthetic Limitations: Optimizing the Design of Radical Polymers 25
2.2 Different Strategies in the Syntheses of Radical Polymers 25
2.3 Conjugated Radical Polymers 37
2.4 Polyradicals 38
2.5 Chapter Summary 41
References 41
Chapter 3: Applications of Radical Polymers in Electrolyte-Supported Devices 45
3.1 Electrolyte-Supported Redox Reactions of Radicals: Opportunities and Applications 45
3.2 Radical Polymers in Energy Storage 46
3.3 Radical Polymers as Battery Electrodes 48
3.4 Controlling Capacity Fading in ORBs 50
3.5 Aqueous Electrolyte Supported ORBs 52
3.6 Radical Polymers in Flow Batteries 53
3.7 Functional Carbon Composites of Radical Polymers 56
3.8 Fully Organic Rechargeable Radical Polymer Batteries 59
3.9 Chapter Summary 60
References 61
Chapter 4: Applications of Radical Polymers in Solid-­State Devices 64
4.1 Application of Radical Polymers to Solid-State Devices 64
4.2 Charge Storage Inspired Organic Electronics 65
4.3 Charge Transport in Radical Polymers 69
4.3.1 Initial Observations and Related Opportunities 69
4.3.2 Chemistry and Conductivity! Doping of Radical Polymers 71
4.4 Radical Polymers in Other Avenues of Organic Electronics 75
4.5 Chapter Summary 77
References 77
Chapter 5: Conclusions and Future Outlook 79
5.1 A Quiet Past, an Exciting Present, and a Revolutionary Future 79
5.2 The Future of Radical Polymers 80
Index 82