Journal
JOURNAL OF ENERGY CHEMISTRY
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 820-825Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jechem.2017.05.002
Keywords
Polybenzimidazole; Silicon carbide whisker; Phosphoric acid doping; Proton exchange membrane; Proton conductivity
Funding
- Kunlun Scholar Award Program of Qinghai Province
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WD1315012]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Polybenzimidazole containing ether bond (OPBI) was reinforced with silicon carbide whisker (mSiC) modified by 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (KH550), and then doped with phosphoric acid (PA) to obtain OPBI/mSiC/PA membranes. These OPBI/mSiC/PA membranes have excellent mechanical strength and oxidative stability and can be used for high temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEM). The tensile strength of OPBI/mSiC/PA membranes ranges from 27.3 to 36.8 MPa, and it increases at first and then decreases with the increase of mSiC content. The high mSiC content and PA doping level contribute to improving the proton conductivity of membranes. The proton conductivity of PBI/mSiC-10/PA membrane is 27.1 mS cm(-1) at 170 degrees C without humidity, with an increase of 55.7% compared with that of OPBI/PA membrane. These excellent properties make OPBI/mSiC/PA membranes promising membrane materials for HT-PEM applications. (C) 2017 Science Press and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available