Novel cross-linked membrane for direct methanol fuel cell application: sulfonated poly(ether ether nitrile)s

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• 作者：Penglun Zheng ; Mingzhen Xu ; Xiaobo Liu ; Kun Jia
• 关键词：Poly(ether ether nitrile)s ; Cross ; linked ; Methanol permeability ; Selectivity
• 刊名：Ionics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：23
• 期：1
• 页码：87-94
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Electrochemistry; Renewable and Green Energy; Optical and Electronic Materials; Condensed Matter Physics; Energy Storage;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1862-0760
• 卷排序：23

文摘

In order to reduce water uptake, swelling ratio, and methanol permeability in sulfonated proton exchange membranes (PEM), novel-sulfonated aromatic poly(ether ether nitrile)s-bearing pendant propenyl groups had been synthesized by direct copolymerization method. All the results showed that the propenyl groups were suitable cross-linkable groups, and that this method was an effective way to overcome the drawbacks of sulfonated polymers at high ion exchange capacity (IEC) values. By cross-linking, the water uptake, swelling ratio, and methanol diffusion could be restricted owing to the formation of compact network structure. For example, CSPEN-60 membranes showed the proton conductivity of 0.072 S cm−1 at 80 °C, while the swelling ratios and water uptake (17.9 and 60.7 %) were much lower than that of the SPEN-60 membrane (60.8 and 295.2 %). Meanwhile, a 1.1 × 10−7 cm2 s−1 of methanol diffusion was obtained which was much lower than that of Nafion 117 (14.1 × 10−7 cm2 s−1). Although the proton conductivity of the CSPEN-60 membranes is lower than that of the SPEN-60 membrane, the selectivity is much higher. The CSPEN-60 membrane exhibited the highest selectivity among the tested membranes, about 5.8 times higher compared with that of Nafion117.