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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 55, Issue 8, Pages 1313-1321Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pola.28496
Keywords
anion exchange membrane; conducting polymers; electrochemistry; guanidinium; membranes
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21404030, 51373045, 31501576]
- National Undergraduate Training Program for Innovation [201510359049]
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A series of poly(ether sulfone)-based anion exchange membranes (AEMs), tethering with guanidinium side chains with different spacers, were synthesized via azide-alkyne cycloaddition, deprotection, and the subsequent ion exchange reactions. The designed polymer structures were verified by the H-1 NMR spectra. Because of the appropriate water uptake and formation of interconnected ionic clusters, the GPES-3C with propyl spacer showed higher conductivity than the GPES-1C and GPES-9C, with methylene and nonyl spacers, respectively. Comparatively, the GPES-EO AEM with two ethylene oxide (EO) spacers exhibited even higher conductivity, these can be interpreted by interconnectivity of ionic channels and hydrophilicity nature of the EO spacer. Additionally, although the GPES membranes displayed sufficient thermal stability, the chemical stability of asprepared materials needs to be much improved for fuel cell applications. Overall, these results demonstrated that the properties of pendent-type AEM can be tuned facilely by the spacer types and lengths. (C) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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