Proton-conducting membranes based on side-chain-type sulfonated poly(ether ketone/ether benzimidazole)s via one-pot condensation

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 465, Issue , 2014, Pages 100-106

  Cui, Mengbing ^a,b   Zhang, Zhenghui ^a   Yuan, Ting ^c   Yang, Hui ^c   Wu, Liang ^a   Bakangura, Erigene ^a   Xu, Tongwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study   (China)

^c SHANGHAI ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Direct methanol fuel cells; Polyacylation; Proton exchange membranes; Sulfonated monomers

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); ETHERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MONOMERS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

MAXIMUM POWER DENSITY; METHANOL PERMEABILITY; NMR AND IR SPECTRUM; PASSIVE DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS; POLYACYLATION; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; PROTON-CONDUCTING MEMBRANES; SULFONATED MONOMERS;

MEMBRANES;

ELECTROLYTE; METHANOL; POLY(ETHER BENZIMIDAZOLE); POLY(ETHER KETONE); POLYETHERSULFONE; PROTON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY RESOURCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTON TRANSPORT; SYNTHESIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 84899827479     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.04.019     Document Type: Article

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