Correlation between morphology, water uptake, and proton conductivity in radiation-grafted proton-exchange membranes

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 211, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 635-643

  Balog, Sandor ^a   Gasser, Urs ^a,b   Mortensen, Kell ^c   Gubler, Lorenz ^d   Scherer, Guenther G ^d   Ben Youcef, Hicham ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Graft copolymers; Percolation; Polyelectrolytes; Proton exchange membranes; Small angle neutron scattering

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS PHASE; CONTRAST-VARIATION METHOD; CROSSLINKER; DEGREE OF CROSSLINKING; HYDRATED PROTONS; HYDROPHILIC DOMAINS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; PERCOLATED NETWORK; POWER LAW; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; PROTON-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE; RADIATION-INDUCED GRAFTING; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; TWO PHASIS; VOLUMETRIC FRACTIONS; WATER UPTAKE;

COPOLYMERIZATION; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HYDRATES; HYDRATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON CONDUCTIVITY; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SOLVENTS; STYRENE;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 77949824268     PISSN: 10221352     EISSN: 15213935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/macp.200900503     Document Type: Article

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