Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, USA.
Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shannxi, 710129, China.
Nat Commun. 2018 Oct 18;9(1):4329. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06475-9.
The fields of soft polymers and macromolecular sciences have enjoyed a unique combination of metals and organic frameworks in the name of metallopolymers or organometallic polymers. When metallopolymers carry charged groups, they form a class of metal-containing polyelectrolytes or metallo-polyelectrolytes. This review identifies the unique properties and functions of metallo-polyelectrolytes compared with conventional organo-polyelectrolytes, in the hope of shedding light on the formation of functional materials with intriguing applications and potential benefits. It concludes with a critical perspective on the challenges and hurdles for metallo-polyelectrolytes, especially experimental quantitative analysis and theoretical modeling of ionic binding.
软聚合物和高分子科学领域以金属配合物聚合物或有机金属聚合物的名义,将金属和有机骨架独特地结合在一起。当金属配合物带有电荷基团时,它们形成了一类含有金属的聚电解质或金属-聚电解质。本综述确定了金属-聚电解质与传统有机-聚电解质相比所具有的独特性质和功能,希望为具有有趣应用和潜在益处的功能材料的形成提供启示。最后,对金属-聚电解质所面临的挑战和障碍进行了批判性的分析,特别是离子键的实验定量分析和理论建模。