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Novel thin flexible hybrid inorganic/polymer films Craig P. Taylor, Colorado School of Mines, DMR 0820518. We have demonstrated the first ever hybrid polymer film of an insoluble polymer with an acid (top picture). A ll other materials of this type are powdered ceramics.
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Novel thin flexible hybrid inorganic/polymer films Craig P. Taylor, Colorado School of Mines, DMR 0820518 • We have demonstrated the first ever hybrid polymer film of an insoluble polymer with an acid (top picture). All other materials of this type are powdered ceramics. • On polymerization these two immiscible substances become miscible. This behavior is very rare and very rarely demonstrated by experiment. • The resulting films are transparent (bottom picture) and exhibit impressive proton conductivity (bottom right graph). • The films are also amorphous. A + B Conductivity (S/cm) 80oC %RH C