Morphological investigations of disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone)-b-naphthalene dianhydride-based polyimide multiblock copolymers as potential high temperature proton exchange membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 328, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 156-164

  Badami, Anand S ^a,b   Roy, Abhishek ^a,c   Lee, Hae Seung ^a   Li, Yanxiang ^a,b   McGrath, James E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^c Dow Chemical Company   (United States)

Author keywords

High temperature; Hot stage atomic force microscopy; Proton exchange membrane; Sulfonated polymers; Water desorption

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DESORPTION; ETHERS; FUEL CELLS; NAPHTHALENE; POLYIMIDES;

HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOT STAGE; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; SULFONATED POLYMERS; WATER DESORPTION;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

COPOLYMER; POLY(ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE) BETA NAPHTHALENE DIANHYDRIDE; POLYIMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; WATER LOSS; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 60049099908     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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