Unfortunately, it's a tradeoff. Improving the conductivity reduces the hydrophobicity, and vice versa. Varanasi and his team set out to see if they could find a way around that conflict, and after ...
“By adding hydrophobic pendant groups to the PIM polymer backbone, such as oxadiazole and benzene rings, we are able to tune the local hydrophobicity and hence tailor the pore size and ion transport ...