The morphology of Nafion: Are ion clusters bridged by channels or single ionic sites?

Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 285-290

  Orfino, F P ^a   Holdcroft, S ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ion clusters; Ionomer; Proton exchange membrane; Small angle X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001363741     PISSN: 14802422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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