WHAT IS POLYMER?
A polymer is a chemical compound of repeating structural units of monomers. It refers to a molecule whose structure is composed of multiple repeating units. Polymers are studied in many fields for instance Biophysics, macromolecular science and polymer science.
The extraordinary range of properties of polymeric materials, play an essential role in everyday life. such as synthetic plastics.
We use many other natural polymeric materials in our daily lives, such as amber, wool, silk, and natural rubber. Synthetic polymers include synthetic rubber, phenol formaldehyde resin, neoprene, nylon, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, polyethylene, silicone and so on.
Application of polymers
In general, polymers are ion-conducting materials. Typical applications are in Batteries, Fuel cells, Electrochemical sensors, Electrochemical switching, Memory devices, Photo electrochemical solar cells and supercapacitors.
Solid polymer batteries
This is an electric cell device that produces electricity from a chemical reaction of polymer materials. All these types of electrical cells have electrodes and electrolytes, and the polymer materials act as electrolytes which are conduct ions.
Polymer electrolytes have many advantages over other solid electrolytes because of their low many and high compatibility with electrode materials. Lithium batteries are composed of aluminate polymer complexes.
Electrochemical sensors
The electrochemical sensors can be classified as gas sensors, pH sensors, Ion selective sensors, Alcohol sensors, Chemical sensors, Biosensors etc. Polymer electrolytes play an important role in sensors.
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