2019 Volume 44 Issue 3 Pages 101-107
Conductive inorganic-organic hybrid monomers and polymers were successfully obtained by using a polymerizable imidazolium ionic-liquid with a methacryloyl group (denoted as MAImC1) and inorganic polyoxometalate cluster anion ([SiW12O40]4−, SiW12). The MAImC1-SiW12 hybrid monomer was synthesized as single crystals, the molecular and crystal structures of which were revealed by single crystal X-ray analysis. The obtained MAImC1-SiW12 hybrid monomer was found to be polymerized by a radical polymerization using AIBN as an initiator to form inorganic-organic homo- and copolymers. The hybrid copolymers of MAImC1-SiW12 polymerized with another polymerizable ionic-liquid (denoted as MAImC8) exhibited high conductivity of 10−3 S cm−1 order under humidified condition at near room temperature of 313 K.