Membranes for PEM Fuel Cells

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Xu, X. and Cabasso, I. 1993. Preliminary study of phosphonate ion exchange membranes for PEM fuel cells. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 205 78-78. 

Miyake, N. et ah. Durability of Asahi Kasei Aciplex membrane for PEM fuel cell application, in Proceedings of the 206th ECS Meeting Proton Conducting Membrane Fuel Cells IV, Honolulu, HI, October 3-8, 2004, p. 333. 

C. Stone, T.S. Daynard, L.Q. Hu, C. Mah, and A.E. Steck. Phosphonic acid functionalized proton exchange membranes for PEM fuel cells. Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems 3, 43-50 2000. 

Apart from water uptake and proton conductivity, another important physicochemical property of a polymeric membrane for PEM fuel cells is its gas permeation, which can be considered a measure of membrane impermeability toward reactant species. Permeability is dehned as the product of diffusivity and solubility ... 

F. Meier and G. Eigenberger, Transport Parameters for the Modelling of Water Transport in lonomer Membranes for Pem-Fuel Cells, Electrochimica Acta, 49, 1731 (2004). 

Hamrock S (2005) The development of new membranes for PEM fuel cells. Conference on advances in materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems, 20-23 Feb 2005, Pacific Grove... 

A variety of types of materials have been used in electrolyte membranes for PEM fuel cells. Most of these fall into two classes basic polymers that have been imbibed with an acid and polymers with acidic groups attached. 

Yandrasits MA, Hamrock SJ (2010) Membranes for PEM fuel cells. In Herring AM, Zawodzinski TA Jr, Hamrock SJ (eds) Fuel cell chemistry and operation, ACS symposium series. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, pp 15-29... 

Gittleman, G., Lai, Y.-H., Miller, D. 2005. Durability of perfluorosulfonic acid membranes for PEM fuel cells. Paper presented at the AIChE Meeting, November 4, Cincinnati, OH. 

Sen U, Celik SU, Ata A et al (2008) Anhydrous proton conducting membranes for PEM fuel cells based on Nafion/azole composites. Int J Hydrogen Energy 33 2808-2815... 

Ghosh S, Maity S, Jana T (2011) Polybenzimidazole/ silica nanocomposites organic-inorganic hybrid membranes for PEM fuel cell. J Mater Oiem 21 14897-14906... 

Jones DJ, Roziere J (2003) Inorganic/organic composite membranes for PEM fuel cells . In 3fielstich W, Lamm A, Gasteiger H (eds) Handbook of Fuel Cells - Fundamentals, Technology and Applications, 3. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK p 447. 

Gittleman C S, Lai Y H, Lewis C and Miller D P (2005), Durability of Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membranes for PEM Fuel Cells , AIChE-2005, Oct 30-Nov 4, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Zhu X, Zhang H, Liang Y, and Zhang Y (2006), A novel PTFE-reinforced multilayer self-humidifying composite membrane for PEM fuel cells , Electrochem. Solid-State Lett., 9,A49-A52. 

Jonghyun Choi, Kyung Min Lee, Ryszard Wycisk, Peter N. Pintauro, Patrick T. Mather, Sulfonated polysul-fone/POSS nanofiber composite membranes for PEM fuel cells, J. Electrochem. Soc. 157 (2010) B914-B919. 

J. Roziere, D. J. Jones, Inorganic-organic Composite Membranes for PEM Fuel Cells, Handbook of Fuel Cell Technology, W. Vielstich, A. Lamm, H. Gasteiger, Eds., Wiley, Vol. 3, pp. 447 55 (2003)... 

Hill et al. [22] developed a series of zirconium hydrogen phosphate/disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) copolymer composite membranes for PEM fuel cells. Disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) copolymers (BPSH) were also tested separately. It was found that both pure BPSH and BPSH/ZrP composite membranes had better mechanical properties when hydrated due to plasticization (see Fig. 10.6). Moderate amounts of ZrP (17%) had a positive effect on the mechanical properties, whereas high amounts (36%) resulted in brittle membranes that are not desirable for fuel cell applications. 

Qiao, J.L., Saito, M., Hayamizu, K., Okada, T. (2006) Degradation of perfluorinated ionomer membranes for PEM fuel cells during processing with H O. J. Electrochem. Soc. 153, A967-A974. 

Feichtinger, J., Kerres, J., Schulz, A., Walker, M. and Schumacher, U. (2002) Plasma modifications of membranes for PEM fuel cells. J. New Mater. Electrochem. Syst. 5, 155-162. 

Schwiebert, K., Raiford, K., Nagarajan, G., Principe, F. and Escobedo, G. (2005) Strategies to Improve the Durability of Petfluorosulfonic Acid Membranes for PEM Fuel Cells, Fuel Cell Durability. 

Sahul, A.K., Pitchumani, S., Sridhar, P., and Shukla, A.K. (2009) Co-assembly of a Nafion-mesoporous zirconium phosphate composite membrane for PEM fuel cells. Fuel Cells, 9,139-147. 

Satterfield MB et al (2006) Mechanical properties of Nation and Titania/Nafirai cranposite membranes for PEM fuel cells. Joiunal of Polymer Science B 44 2327-2345... 

Zhu, X., Zhang, H., Zhang, Y., Liang, Y., Wang, X., Yi, B. (2006) An ultrathin self-humidifying membrane for PEM fuel cell application fabrication, characterization, and experimental analysis. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B Polymer Physics, 110, 14240-14248. 

Subianto, S., Pica, M., Casciola, M., Cojocaru, P, Merlo, L., Hards, G., Jones, D. J., Physical and chemical modification rentes leading to improved mechanical properties of perfluorosulfonic acid membranes for PEM fuel cells. J. Power Sources 2013, 233 (0), 216-230. 

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