Highly fluorinated sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) copolymers: Synthesis and evaluation of proton exchange membrane properties

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2772-2783

  Mohanty, Aruna K ^a   Mistri, Ershad A ^a   Banerjee, Susanta ^a   Komber, Hartmut ^b   Voit, Brigitte ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STABILITY; ETHERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TITRATION;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; FTIR AND NMR SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ION EXCHANGE CAPACITY; PHASE SEPARATED MORPHOLOGY; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; SULFONATED POLY(ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE); SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS;

ION EXCHANGE;

EID: 84874597542     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie303380a     Document Type: Article

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