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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 137, Issue 26, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.48830
Keywords
batteries and fuel cells; blends; electrochemistry; membranes
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFB1502703]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51602209]
- Provincial Nature Science Foundation of Sichuan [2018FZ0105]
- Technological Innovation Research and Development Project of Chengdu [2018-YF05-01409-GX]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [YJ201746, 2018SCUH0025]
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The SPEEK/s-TiO2 composite membrane was prepared by blending sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) (SPEEK) and sulfonated titanium dioxide (s-TiO2) nanoparticles. The important physiochemical parameters such as proton conductivity, water uptake, swelling degree and ion exchange capacity of the composite membrane were measured. The thermal stability and chemical stability were also tested. It was observed that the SPEEK/s-TiO2 composite membrane exhibited the best selectivity (7.13 x 10(4) S center dot min center dot cm(-3)) accompanying high proton conductivity (0.061 S center dot cm(-1)) and low tetravalent vanadium ion (VO2+) permeability (8.55 x 10(-7) cm(2)center dot min(-1)) compared with Nafion117, SPEEK and SPEEK/TiO2 membranes. The battery performance with these membranes was characterized by charge-discharge cycling tests and it was found that the SPEEK/s-TiO2 composite membrane showed the highest energy efficiency (EE) up to 82.3%, indicating the SPEEK/s-TiO2 composite membrane is a candidate for vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) application. (c) 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2019, 137, 48830.
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