Synthesis and characterization of new proton conducting hybrid membranes for PEM fuel cells based on poly(vinyl alcohol) and nanoporous silica containing phenyl sulfonic acid

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 13310-13316

  Beydaghi, Hossein ^a   Javanbakht, Mehran ^a   Salar Amoli, Hossein ^b   Badiei, Alireza ^c   Khaniani, Yeganeh ^c   Ganjali, Mohammad Reza ^c   Norouzi, Parviz ^c   Abdouss, Majid ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b IRANIAN RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IROST   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Functionalized nanoporous silica; Hybrid membranes; PEM fuel cells; Poly(vinyl alcohol); Proton conductivity

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC GROUPS; CO-CONDENSATION; CROSS LINKING AGENTS; FTIR; FUNCTIONALIZED; GLUTARALDEHYDES; HYBRID MEMBRANE; INORGANIC MODIFIERS; MATRIX; NAFION 117; NANO-POROUS; NANOPOROUS SILICA; NANOPOROUS STRUCTURES; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; PEM FUEL CELL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; PROTON-CONDUCTING HYBRID MEMBRANES; SILICA ADDITIVE; SULFONIC ACID; SULFONIC ACID GROUPS; WATER RETENTION; WATER UPTAKE;

ALDEHYDES; CROSSLINKING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; MEMBRANES; PROTON CONDUCTIVITY; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); PROTONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES;

EID: 80052924879     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.08.085     Document Type: Article

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