Solid-state polymerization reactions in alkali salts of halogenocarboxylic acids

Some Aspects of Solid State Polymerization

Previous investigations on solid state polymerization are reviewed, and a few examples of new experimental results are added. Radiation-induced polymerizations of methyl methacrylate in the supercooled liquid phase, and of cyclohexene oxide in the plastic crystalline phase, have been examined. Polymerizations of acrylamide and N-vinylcarbazole were investigated on a solid surface with initiatio...

Functional diversity in templated solid state reactions

Computational studies of solid-state alkali conduction in rechargeable alkali-ion batteries

The facile conduction of alkali ions in a crystal host is of crucial importance in rechargeable alkali-ion batteries, the dominant form of energy storage today. In this review, we provide a comprehensive survey of computational approaches to study solid-state alkali diffusion. We demonstrate how these methods have provided useful insights into the design of materials that form the main componen...

Product-state control of bi-alkali-metal chemical reactions

We consider ultracold, chemically reactive scattering collisions of the diatomic molecules KRb. When two such molecules collide in an ultracold gas, we find that they are energetically forbidden from reacting to form the trimer species K2Rb or Rb2K, and hence can only react via the bond-swapping reaction 2 KRb → K2 + Rb2. Moreover, the tiny energy released in this reaction can in principle be s...

Polymerization Reactions

The tremendous growth of polymer production since the middle of the twentieth century has been intimately connected with the development of new types of catalysts, A notable example in this regard is the field of poly olefin materials, While catalysts are also used in the production of other types of polymers, the properties of most of these materials are not particularly dependent on the type ...