Highly compatible acid-base blend membranes based on sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) and poly(ether ether ketone-alt-benzimidazole) for fuel cells application

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 415-416, Issue , 2012, Pages 644-653

  Wang, Jianli ^a   Liao, Junbin ^a   Yang, Lan ^a   Zhang, Shenggang ^a   Huang, Xuelei ^a   Ji, Jianbing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Blend membrane; Methanol permeability; Proton conductivity; Sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone)

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE INTERACTION; ACID-BASE BLEND MEMBRANES; BENZIMIDAZOLES; BLEND MEMBRANES; METHANOL PERMEABILITY; NANOSCALE DOMAIN; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; OXIDATIVE STABILITY; SEM IMAGE; SULFONATED POLY(ETHER ETHER KETONE)S; SULFONATED POLYETHERETHERKETONE; SULFONIC ACID GROUPS; TWO-COMPONENT;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METHANOL; PROTON CONDUCTIVITY;

MEMBRANES;

ACID; BASE; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; METHANOL; POLY(ETHER ETHER KETONE ALT BENZIMIDAZOLE); POLYETHERETHERKETONE; POLYMER; PROTON; SULFONATED POLY(ETHER ETHER KETONE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLEND MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OPTICS; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL; PROTON TRANSPORT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFONATION; SYNTHESIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84864766987     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.05.045     Document Type: Article

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