Nano-scale morphology in graft copolymer proton-exchange membranes cross-linked with DIPB

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 383, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 50-59

  Balog, Sandor ^a   Gasser, Urs ^a   Mortensen, Kell ^b   Ben youcef, Hicham ^a   Gubler, Lorenz ^a   Scherer, Günther G ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cross linking; Graft copolymer; Percolation; Proton exchange membrane; SAXS; Stochastic real space reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION PEAKS; CROSSLINKER; DEGREE OF GRAFTING; DRY STATE; HYDRATED MEMBRANES; MONOMER COMPOSITIONS; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE STRUCTURE; NUMBER DENSITY; PERCOLATION THEORY; POWER LAW; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; PROTON-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE; SAXS; SAXS SPECTRA; STOCHASTIC REAL-SPACE RECONSTRUCTION; STYRENE MOIETY; WATER VOLUME FRACTION;

COPOLYMERIZATION; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HYDRATION; ION EXCHANGE; IONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; PROTON CONDUCTIVITY; PROTONS; SOLVENTS; STYRENE; TITRATION;

ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES;

1,3 DIISOPROPENYLBENZENE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; COPOLYMER; NANOMATERIAL; PROTON; STYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SULFONATION;

EID: 80053454014     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.08.031     Document Type: Article

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