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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jung Tae Lee, Cambridge, GB;
Benjamin Jean-Baptiste Grena, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tural Khudiyev, Revere, MA (US);
Chong Hou, Wuhan, CN;
Yoel Fink, Brookline, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Provided herein is a fiber having a fiber body including fiber body material with a longitudinal-axis fiber body length. A plurality of gel domains is disposed within the fiber body along at least a portion of the longitudinal-axis fiber body length. Each gel domain includes a porous host matrix material and a liquid gel component that is entrapped in the molecular structure of the host matrix material and that is disposed in interstices of the host material matrix. At least two of the gel domains within the fiber body are disposed directly adjacent to each other in direct physical contact with each other. This fiber can include polymeric fiber body material and gel domains including a porous polymer host matrix material and an ionically conducting liquid solvent that is entrapped in the molecular structure of the polymer host matrix material and disposed in interstices of the polymer host material matrix.