Bucky gels

Fabrication and Applications of Bucky Gels from Ionic Liquids and Carbon Nanotubes... 

Bucky gels are easily obtained by mechanically grinding CNTs with ILs, and they combine the exeellent electrical properties and high specific surface area of CNTs, as well as high ionie eonductivity and wide potential window of ILs. Thus,... 

Choi BG, Lee SY, Hong WH et al (2009) Development of the electrochemical biosensor for organophosphate chemicals using CNT/ionic liquid bucky gel electrode. Electrochem Commun 11 672-675... 

Fukushima T, Asaka K, Kosaka A et al (2005) Fully plastic actuator through layer-by-layer casting with ionic-liquid-based bucky gel. Angew Chem Int Ed 44 2410-2413... 

Mukaia K, Asakaa K, Kiyoharaa K et al (2008) High performance fully plastic actuator based on ionic-liquid-based bucky gel. Electrochim Acta 53 5555-5562... 

Takeuchia I, Asakaa K, Kiyoharaa K et al (2009) Electromechanical behavior of fully plastic actuators based on bucky gel containing various internal ionic liquids. Electrochim Acta 54 1762-1768... 

Yu P, Yan J, Mao LQ et al (2008) Rational functionalization of carbon nanotube/ionic liquid bucky gel with dual tailor-made electrocatalysts for four-electron reduction of oxygen. J Phys Chem C 112 2177-2182... 

Katakabe T, Kaneko T, Watanabe M, Fukushima T, Aida T (2005) Electric double-layer capacitors using Bucky Gels consisting of an Ionic liquid and carbon nanotubes. J Electrochem Soc 152 A1913-A1916... 

Fujiwara N, Asaka K, Nishimura Y et al (2000) Preparation of gold — solid polymer electrolyte composites as electric stimuli-responsive materials. Chem Mater 12(6) 1750-1754 Fukushima T, Asaka K, Kosaka A et al (2005) Fully plastic actuator through layer-by-layer casting with ionic-liquid-based bucky gel. Angew Chem hit Ed 44 2410-2413 Gao R, Wang D, Heflin JR et al (2012) Imidazolium sulfonate-containing pentablock copolymer-ionic liquid membranes for electroactive actuators. J Mater Chem 22 13473-13476 Gogotsi Y, Nikitin A, Ye H et al (2003) Nanoporous carbide-derived carbon with tunable pore size. Nat Mater 2(9) 591-594... 

Ionic liquids (IL) are common electrolytes for use in ionic and c acitive actuators operable in air. IL fills the porous structure of the carbonaceous electrodes and tire intercoimected porous network in the polymeric separator in-between the electrodes. IL-incorporated polymer can be required also as a binder in the electrodes. As an advantageous property, carbon nanotubes form a highly viscous gel - a so-called bucky-gel, when mixed with ionic Uquids (Fukushima et al. 2005 Fukushima et al. 2003). The bucky-gel electrodes do not requite addition of any polymeric binder, which, in turn, helps to retain good electrical conductivity along the electrodes. 

Kruusamae K, Mukai K, Sugino T, Asaka K (2014) Impact of viscoelastic properties on bucky-gel actuator performance. J Intell Mater Syst Stmct 25(18), 2235-2245... 

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