Chemical and mechanical stability of EPDM in a PEM fuel cell environment

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2072-2078

  Tan, Jinzhu ^a   Chao, Y J ^b   Wang, Haifeng ^a   Gong, Jianming ^a   Van Zee, J W ^b  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

ATR FTIR; EPDM; Microindentation; PEM fuel cell; Stability

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETERS; ATR-FTIR; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; BEFORE AND AFTER; CHEMICAL CHANGE; ELASTOMERIC MATERIALS; EPDM; ETHYLENE PROPYLENE DIENE MONOMER; FUEL CELL OPERATION; FUEL CELL STACK; GASKET MATERIALS; LEACHANTS; MICRO-INDENTATION TESTS; MICROINDENTATION; PEM FUEL CELL; REACTANT GAS; SAMPLE SURFACE; TOPOGRAPHICAL CHANGES; TWO-TEMPERATURE;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; CALCIUM; CHEMICAL STABILITY; DEGRADATION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; ELASTOMERS; ETHYLENE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GASKETS; LEACHING; MACHINERY; MATERIALS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL STABILITY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROPYLENE; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACES;

CELL MEMBRANES;

EID: 70349774245     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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