Proton conducting membranes prepared by radiation grafting of styrene and various comonomers

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-89

  Jetsrisuparb, Kaewta ^a   Balog, Sandor ^b   Bas, Corine ^c   Perrin, Lara ^c   Wokaun, Alexander ^a   Gubler, Lorenz ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c LEPMI   (France)

Author keywords

Comonomer; Graft copolymers; NMR; Polymer electrolyte fuel cell; Proton exchange membrane; SAXS

Indexed keywords

CO-MONOMER; POLY(ETHYLENE-ALT-TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE); POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; PROTON CONDUCTING MEMBRANES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; SAXS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SOLID-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY;

ESTERS; ETHYLENE; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; KETONES; MEMBRANES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTON CONDUCTIVITY; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); STYRENE;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84893840273     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2014.01.021     Document Type: Article

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