Deconvolution and estimation of water diffusion in sulfonated polyethersulfone membranes using diffusion-weighted inversion recovery.

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1030-1034

  Ohkubo, Takahiro ^a   Ohira, Akihiro ^b   Iwadate, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSION RECOVERY; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME; PROTON TRANSPORT; PROTON-CONDUCTING POLYMERS; PULSE SEQUENCE; RELAXATION TIME DISTRIBUTION; SELF-DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; SULFONATED POLYETHER; SULFONATED POLYETHERSULFONE; WATER CHANNELS; WATER DIFFUSION; WATER SPECIES;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTONS; RELAXATION TIME;

ETHERS;

EID: 84860205133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz3002458     Document Type: Article

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