Radiation grafting of styrene into crosslinked PTEE films and subsequent sulfonation for fuel cell applications

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 67, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 403-407

  Yamaki, Tetsuya ^a   Asano, Masaharu ^a   Maekawa, Yasunari ^a   Morita, Yosuke ^a   Suwa, Takeshi ^a   Chen, Jinhua ^b   Tsubokawa, Norio ^b   Kobayashi, Kazuhiro ^c   Kubota, Hitoshi ^c   Yoshida, Masaru ^a  

^a TAKASAKI ADVANCED RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crosslinking; Ion exchange capacity; Polytetrafluoroethylene; Proton exchange membrane; Radiation grafting

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; FUEL CELLS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); ION EXCHANGE; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; SOLID ELECTROLYTES; SULFONATION;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES;

STYRENE;

POLITEF; POLYMER; STYRENE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS LINKING; ION EXCHANGE; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE;

EID: 0038696044     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-806X(03)00075-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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