Correlating morphology, proton conductivity, and water transport in polyelectrolyte-fluoropolymer blend membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 448, Issue , 2013, Pages 292-299

  Hou, Jianbo ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Mountz, David ^b   Hull, Marisa ^b   Madsen, Louis A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARKEMA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Blend membrane; Hydrophilic hydrophobic; Morphology; NMR; Proton conductivity; Restricted diffusion

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLYELECTROLYTES; POROUS MATERIALS; PROTON CONDUCTIVITY;

BLEND MEMBRANES; DIFFUSION EXPERIMENTS; HYDROPHILIC-HYDROPHOBIC; MULTI SCALE MORPHOLOGY; MULTIFACETED ANALYSIS; RESTRICTED DIFFUSION; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDES;

MEMBRANES;

FLUOROPOLYMER; POLYELECTROLYTE; POLYMER; PROTON; TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DIFFUSION; MEMBRANE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84884981770     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.08.019     Document Type: Article

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