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A type of materials known as metal-backboned polymers has a polymer chain as its backbone, and metal atoms are covalently linked to the polymer chain. This results in the formation of a hybrid material having both organic and inorganic features, which may give rise to special qualities and useful applications.
Polyferrocenylsilane, which contains a silicon-carbon backbone and ferrocene groups covalently bound to the silicon atoms, is an illustration of a polymer with a metal backbone. Due to the ferrocene groups’ redox activity along the polymer backbone, the resultant material has intriguing electrical and electrochemical properties.
Polyphosphazenes with metal side groups and organometallic polymers with metal-containing monomers are two other instances of polymers with metal backbones.
Overall, these materials’ metal and polymer chemistry can provide special features and have prospective uses in industries including electronics, catalysis, and energy storage.
Global metal-backboned polymer market accounted for $XX Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2023 to 2030.
A conductive, thermally stable polymer with intriguing opto-electronic properties has been created by researchers at Fudan University. Their work is covered in a publication that appears in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
It is challenging to give polymers the properties of metals, such as strong thermal and electrical conductivity, because the differing electronic structures of metal and nonmetal atoms make this possible. Metal-based polymers may combine the benefits of both types of materials and pave the way for the development of new functional materials.
The weak connections between the metal atoms that prevent a polymer backbone from stabilising to the same degree as nonmetal atoms in traditional polymers are the source of the issue. A stable polymer with a nickel atom-based backbone has recently been created by a team led.
Calixarene, a chalice-shaped molecule with four binding sites, was employed by the team from East China University of Science and Technology and Fudan University as the “scaffold” for the metal polymer. They bound four poly(aminopyridine) chains to the calixarenes, bundling and parallelizing the four chains.
