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The use of elemental sulfur as an alternative feedstock for polymeric materialsHighly Cited Paper

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Title
The use of elemental sulfur as an alternative feedstock for polymeric materials
Author(s)
Woo Jin Chung; Jared J. Griebel; Eui Tae Kim; Hyunsik Yoon; Adam G. Simmonds; Hyun Jun Ji; Philip T. Dirlam; Richard S. Glass; Jeong Jae Wie; Ngoc A. Nguyen; Brett W. Guralnick; Jungjin Park; A´rpa´d Somogyi; Patrick Theato; Michael E. Mackay; Yung-Eun Sung; Kookheon Char; Jeffrey Pyun
Publication Date
2013-06
Journal
NATURE CHEMISTRY, v.5, no.6, pp.518 - 524
Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Abstract
An excess of elemental sulfur is generated annually from hydrodesulfurization in petroleum refining processes; however, it has a limited number of uses, of which one example is the production of sulfuric acid. Despite this excess, the development of synthetic and processing methods to convert elemental sulfur into useful chemical substances has not been investigated widely. Here we report a facile method (termed ‘inverse vulcanization’) to prepare chemically stable and processable polymeric materials through the direct copolymerization of elemental sulfur with vinylic monomers. This methodology enabled the modification of sulfur into processable copolymer forms with tunable thermomechanical properties, which leads to well-defined sulfur-rich micropatterned films created by imprint lithography. We also demonstrate that these copolymers exhibit comparable electrochemical properties to elemental sulfur and could serve as the active material in Li–S batteries, exhibiting high specific capacity (823 mA h g21 at 100 cycles) and enhanced capacity retention.
URI
https://pr.ibs.re.kr/handle/8788114/1304
DOI
10.1038/NCHEM.1624
ISSN
1755-4330
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