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Tetrazole tethered polymers for alkaline anion exchange membranes

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Poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) was tethered with a 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole through a quaternary ammonium linkage. The formation of a tetrazole-ion network in the resulting polymers was found to promote the hydroxide ion transport through the Grotthus-type mechanism.

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Acknowledgements

This project has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 91534203) and K. C. Wong Education Foundation (2016-11). Erigene Bakangura is grateful to CASTWAS President’s fellowship for PhD programs.

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  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Material Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Erigene Bakangura, Yubin He, Xiaolin Ge, Yuan Zhu, Liang Wu, Jin Ran, Congliang Cheng, Kamana Emmanuel, Zhengjin Yang & Tongwen Xu

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Bakangura, E., He, Y., Ge, X. et al. Tetrazole tethered polymers for alkaline anion exchange membranes. Front. Chem. Sci. Eng. 12, 306–310 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-017-1690-7

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