Ionic Liquid Confined in Nafion: Toward Molecular-Level Understanding

AIChE Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2630-2639

  Sun, Delin ^a   Zhou, Jian ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Coarse graining; Fuel cell; Ionic liquid; Molecular simulation; Nafion

Indexed keywords

1-BUTYL-3-METHYLIMIDAZOLIUM TETRAFLUOROBORATE; COARSE GRAINED MODELS; COARSE GRAINING; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; MULTI-SCALE SIMULATION METHOD; NAFION; PROTON CONDUCTING MATERIALS; SELF-DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DIFFUSION; FUEL CELLS; POSITIVE IONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 84879309048     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14009     Document Type: Article

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