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Article: Polymer electrolytes: new materials for applied electrochemistry.
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- Chemistry and Industry
- Article date:
- August 17, 1992
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Displaying many advantages over their liquid counterparts, polymer electrolytes are finding an increasingly wide range of applications
Electrochemical cells based on liquid electrolytes are always likely to present practical problems associated with the escape of corrosive, flammable or toxic liquids. Furthermore, it is not generally possible to miniaturise such cells nor to produce special configurations such as thin film structures. Ionically conducting solid phases could be used to replace these conventional electrolytes and make all-solid-state devices such as power sources, displays and sensors. Such phases should have a number of critical attributes ...