Insight into the multiscale structure of pre-stretched recast Nafion® membranes: Focus on the crystallinity features

Polymer

Volumn 63, Issue , 2015, Pages 99-107

  Mendil Jakani, Hakima ^a   Pouget, Stéphanie ^a,b   Gebel, Gérard ^a   Pintauro, Peter N ^c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane stretching; Nafion; Scattering

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITY; SCATTERING;

EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUCED ANISOTROPY; MEMBRANE PREPARATION; MEMBRANE STRETCHING; MULTI-SCALE STRUCTURES; NAFION; OBSERVATION WINDOW; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

X RAY SCATTERING;

EID: 84925249029     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2015.02.046     Document Type: Article

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