Bicontinuous alkaline fuel cell membranes from strongly self-segregating block copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7332-7340

  Price, Samuel C ^a   Ren, Xiaoming ^a   Jackson, Aaron C ^a   Ye, Yuesheng ^b   Elabd, Yossef A ^b   Beyer, Frederick L ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICONTINUOUS STRUCTURES; FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES; HYDROPHOBIC PHASE; HYDROXIDE CONDUCTIVITIES; HYDROXIDE IONS; LIQUID WATER; POSTPOLYMERIZATION MODIFICATIONS; RESULTING MATERIALS;

ALKALINE FUEL CELLS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84884835760     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma400995n     Document Type: Article

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