Water soluble polymers as proton exchange membranes for fuel cells

Polymers

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 913-963

  Ye, Yun Sheng ^a   Rick, John ^a   Hwang, Bing Joe ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuel cell; Proton exchange membrane (PEM); Water soluble polymer (WSP)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS; FUEL GAS; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; HYDROLYTIC STABILITY; MECHANICAL TOUGHNESS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POLY(VINYL PYRROLIDONE); POLYMER BASED; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANES; POLYSTYRENE SULFONIC ACID; PORE FILLING; POTENTIAL POWER SOURCES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; PROTON TRANSPORT; PROTON-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE; PROTONIC CONDUCTIVITIES; QUIET OPERATION; SEMI-IPN; WATERSOLUBLE POLYMERS;

FUEL CELLS; GAS HYDRATES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); WATERWORKS;

CROSSLINKING;

EID: 84862557140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym4020913     Document Type: Review

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