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Poly(2, 5-benzimidazole)-based polymer electrolyte membranes for high-temperature fuel cell applications

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posted on 2016-09-13, 10:15 authored by Xujin BaoXujin Bao, Qingting Liu
The synthesis and characterizations of novel organic-inorganic composite membrane materials formed by poly(2, 5-benzimidazole)/OctaAmmonium POSS® (ABPBI/OA-POSS) are reported. An uniform dispersion of nanoparticles in the membrane with excellent mechanical properties was obtained from ABPBI containing 3% OA-POSS membranes (ABPBI/3OA). Upon impregnation with phosphoric acid, the composite membranes presented higher phosphoric acid uptakes and proton conductivities than that of the pristine ABPBI membranes. The highest proton conductivity of 0.25S/cm was achieved from ABPBI/3OA membrane with 241% of phosphoric acid uptake at 160d̀C without humidification. These properties make them very good candidates as the membranes for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) at temperatures up to 160d̀C.

History

School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Materials

Published in

Nanotechnology 2010: Bio Sensors, Instruments, Medical, Environment and Energy - Technical Proceedings of the 2010 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2010

Volume

3

Pages

781 - 784

Citation

BAO, X. and LIU, Q., 2010. Poly(2, 5-benzimidazole)-based polymer electrolyte membranes for high-temperature fuel cell applications. IN: Proceedings of 2010 NSTI Nanotechnology conference (Nanotech 2010), 21-24 June 2010, Anaheim, United States, pp.781-784.

Publisher

NSTI

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2010

Notes

This is a conference paper.

ISBN

9781439834015;1439834016;9781439834183;1439834180

Language

  • en