A collaborative team led by Associate Professor Liu Kai and Professor Wang Baoguo from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University, along with researchers from Rice University, has proposed a novel strategy: leveraging supramolecular host-guest chemistry to construct dynamic nanopores within polymer membranes. By co-assembling rigid macrocyclic molecule cucurbit[7]uril (CB[7]) with cationic polymers through non-covalent interactions, they successfully fabricated anion-conductive membranes that exhibit both high ionic conductivity and excellent mechanical stability without altering the chemical structure of the polymer backbone. This breakthrough provides a new type of membrane material for electrochemical energy devices.
