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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
卷 321, 期 2, 页码 139-145出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2008.04.049
关键词
Nafion (R); composite proton exchange membrane; core-shell nano-particles; fuel cell; atom transfer radical polymerization
A special type of hybrid nano-particles was incorporated into the Nafion (R) matrix to form a composite membrane. These nano-particles possessed a core-shell structure consisting of silica core (<10 nm) and a densely grafted oligomeric ionmer layer, which was synthesized via atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) on the particles' surface. Besides considerable improvement in the proton conductivity of the membrane, the presence of these hybrid nano-particles in the Nafion (R) matrix also repressed its methanol permeability by almost four times. The composite membrane also demonstrated superior performance when tested in a single cell membrane-electrolyte assembly (MEA) under direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) operating condition. It was found that the composite membrane enabled a power density output that was 1.5 times greater than that of pristine Nafion (R). (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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