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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 568, Issue -, Pages 67-75Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2018.09.048
Keywords
Poly(ether sulfone)s; Spirobiindane moieties; Internal void spaces; SAEMFCs
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- projects KIST Institutional Program from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [NRF-2016M1A2A2937136]
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In this report, we introduced spirobiindane group to poly(arylene ether sulfone) (PES) to build the structure of polymers with intrinsic microporosity (PIMs). A novel PESs (QOH-SBIs), which have spirobiindane and tetra (quaternary ammonium) hydroxide pendant moieties, were synthesized for anion-conducting binder material in membrane electrode assembly (MEA) of solid alkaline exchange membrane fuel cell (SAEMFC). The time-lag method was used to check the high gas permeability of the polymers. The high permeability is due to the micro-pores at the molecular level that is formed by the difference in chain thicknesses between two alternating units, thick spirobiindane group and thin arylene ether sulfone group. QOH-SBIs shows a semi-rigid chain conformation in a solution. The inter-chain spacing and chain conformation were measured with wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and small angle neutron scattering (SANS), respectively. High gas permeability directly affected the performance of SAEMFC. The MEA with spirobiindane-modified PES shows much higher maximum power density than that of spirobiindane-free PESs.
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