This paper reports the first fully-integrated fully polymeric microchip for electrophoresis including electrodes for high voltage and also for contactless conductivity detection. The complete polymer microchip was demonstrated with a separation of the inorganic cations, K, Na and Li to benchmark performance. Rapid separations (30 s) with high electric field strengths (200 V/cm) yielded detectio...

D Cross-Linked Polymer Hydrogel Electrolytes for Electrochemical Capacitors N. A. Choudhury, A. K. Shukla,* S. Sampath, and S. Pitchumani Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi-630 006, ...

Microstructural evolution of spinel Zn(2)SnO(4) nanofibers was manipulated via an in situ phase separation process of inorganic precursors and a matrix polymer during electrospinning and calcination. Chemiresistive gas sensors using porous Zn(2)SnO(4) fibers exhibited superior C(2)H(5)OH sensing response.

Polyether-based polymer electrolytes containing ceramic inorganic oxide fillers often exhibit improved mechanical and ion transport properties compared to their filler-free counterparts. The nature of local scale interactions that give rise to these enhanced properties is explored by nuclear magnetic resonance measurements.

Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Polaron Dynamics in Polymer and Hybrid Photovoltaic Thin Films: Organic vs Inorganic Acceptors Kevin M. Noone, Selvam Subramaniyan, Qifeng Zhang, Guozhong Cao, Samson A. Jenekhe, and David S. Ginger* Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, and Department of Materials Science and Engineeering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 981...

Polymer-clay nanocomposites are a well known class of hybrid materials with enhanced functional and structural properties. In particular bio-nanocomposites, which result from the interactions of biopolymers and inorganic solids with dimensions in the nanometric scale, are receiving increasing attention due to their potential as ecological, biocompatible and economically viable high performance ...

Constructing a highly efficient bulk-heterojunction is of critical importance to the hybrid organic/inorganic solar cells. Here in this work, we introduce a novel hybrid architecture containing P3HT nanowire and CdSe nanotetrapod as bicontinuous charge channels for holes and electrons, respectively. Compared to the traditionally applied P3HT molecules, the well crystallized P3HT nanowires quali...

Polymeric/inorganic nanocomposite films have been fabricated through a combination of flame-spray-pyrolysis (FSP) made inorganic scaffold and surface initiated polymerization of cyanoacrylate. The highly porous structure of pristine SnO(2) films allows the uptake of cyanoacrylate and the polymerization is surface initiated by the water adsorbed onto the SnO(2) surface. Scanning electron microsc...

Interactions between polymers and inorganic surfaces are present in a series of phenomena involving processes such as coagulation and deffloculation of ceramic powder and adsorption of organic macromolecules on the surface of implants, among others. In this work, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) was modified to allow the evaluation of interactions between polymeric chains and inorganic surfaces (s...

Conjugated polymer/silica nanocomposites with hexagonal, cubic, or lamellar mesoscopic order were synthesized by self-assembly using polymerizable amphiphilic diacetylene molecules as both structure-directing agents and monomers. The self-assembly procedure is rapid and incorporates the organic monomers uniformly within a highly ordered, inorganic environment. By tailoring the size of the oligo...