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Recent research trends in perfluoropolyether for energy device applications: a mini review

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Fluorinated polymers are a significant class of functional materials in the field of polymer chemistry. Endowed with remarkable properties, such as high chemical and solvent resistance, enhanced electrical properties, high thermal and electrochemical stability, and low surface energy, they find potential applications in various fields such as chemical processing, electrical/electronic industries, automotive/aircraft industries, medical instrumentations, consumer products, and energy storage or conversion devices. Among a wide variety of commercially significant fluorinated polymers, perfluoropolyether (PFPE) plays a substantial role in energy applications because of its super-hydrophobicity, non-crystallinity, non-flammability, low toxicity, and gas-permeability features. This review briefly confers the properties, production, and significant studies of perfluoropolyether as electrolytes in batteries, followed by a detailed discussion on their role as solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) in metal-ion batteries, oxygen selective membrane (OSM) in metal–air batteries, and as a hydrophobic coating for gas diffusion electrodes in fuel cell applications. Besides, other energy-related applications of PFPE that open up the future scopes of perfluoropolyether in the field of energy storage and conversion devices are also presented.

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Copyright 2008 ECS—The Electrochemical Society. e–g Optical microscope images of MPL surfaces: GDM-PTFE; GDM-PFPE-12; GDM-PFPE-6 at (40 ×) depicting the variation in surface cracks. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [66]. Copyright 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. h, i Polarization curves and diffusion resistance obtained upon 500 h of constant current durability tests and accelerated stress tests for PFPE and PTFE GDLs, respectively (Operating condition: 80 °C and 80–100% RH). Reprinted with permission from Ref. [67]. Copyright 2020 WILEY–VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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This work was supported by the Technology Innovation Program (or Industrial Strategic Technology Development Program) (20016070) funded By the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea). This work was also supported by the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea (No. 20224000000320). This work was supported by the KENTECH Research Grant funded by the Korea Institute of Energy Technology, Republic of Korea (KRG2022-01-016).

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Shanmugapriya, S., Kim, M.G., Im, S. et al. Recent research trends in perfluoropolyether for energy device applications: a mini review. J. Korean Ceram. Soc. 61, 1–14 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43207-023-00331-3

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