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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 52, Issue 5, Pages 2131-2138Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02199
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- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) through CREST [JPMJCR12C3]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Japan [18H02030, 18H05515, 18K19111]
- Ogasawara Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Engineering
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18K19111] Funding Source: KAKEN
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To evaluate the effect of five consecutive phenylene units on the properties of anion conductive polymer membranes, a series of quaternized copolymers (QP-QAF) composed of quinquephenylene and fluorene groups functionalized with pendant hexyltrimethylammonium groups were designed and synthesized. Precursor copolymers, QP-AF, with controllable copolymer compositions were synthesized by Yamamoto coupling reaction as high molecular weights. Quaternization of QP-AF using dimethyl sulfate followed by solution casting provided bendable and tough QP-QAF membranes with the ion exchange capacity (IEC) ranging from 0.80 to 2.78 mequiv g(-1). The QP-QAF membranes contained phase-separated morphology due to the hydrophilic/hydrophobic differences in the components as confirmed by TEM images. High hydroxide ion conductivity (up to 134 mS cm(-1) in water at 80 degrees C) was obtained with the membrane (IEC = 2.25 mequiv g(-1)). The membranes were stable in strongly alkaline conditions (similar to 4 M KOH at 80 degrees C) for 1000 h. An H-2/O-2 alkaline fuel cell using the QP-QAF membrane exhibited 248 mW cm(-2) of the maximum power density at 60 degrees C under fully humidified conditions.
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