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Effect of Organo-Silanes Structure on the Properties of Silane-Crosslinked Membranes Based on Cardo Polybenzimidazole PBI-O-PhT

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MEMBRANES
卷 12, 期 11, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/membranes12111078

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membrane; polyelectrolyte; polybenzimidazole; covalent crosslinking; silanol crosslinking; proton conductivity; gas permeability; mechanical properties; HT-PEMFC; phosphoric acid

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  1. Russian Science Foundation [21-73-20229]

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Polybenzimidazoles (PBI) doped with phosphoric acid (PA) are promising electrolytes for medium temperature fuel cells. Silanol crosslinking can stabilize PBI membranes. In this study, three different organo-substituted silanes were used as crosslinkers to investigate their effects on membrane properties. The crosslinked membranes showed improved mechanical properties and lower hydrogen permeability, while maintaining proton conductivity.
Polybenzimidazoles (PBI) doped with phosphoric acid (PA) are promising electrolytes for medium temperature fuel cells. Their significant disadvantage is a partial or complete loss of mechanical properties and an increase in hydrogen permeability at elevated temperatures. Covalent silanol crosslinking is one possible way to stabilize PBI membranes in the presence of PA. Three organo-substituted silanes, namely (3-Bromopropyl)trimethoxysilane (SiBr), trimethoxy [2-(7-oxabicyclo [4.1.0]hept-3-yl)ethyl]silane (Si-biC) and (3-Glycidyloxypropyl)trimethoxysilane (KH 560), were used as covalent crosslinkers of PBI-O-PhT in order to determine the effect of the silane structure and crosslinking degree on membrane properties. The crosslinking degree was 1-50%. All crosslinked membranes were characterized by impedance and IR-spectroscopy. The mechanical properties, morphology, stability and hydrogen permeability of the membranes were determined. In the case of silanes with linear substituents (SiBr, KH 560), a denser structure is formed, which is characterized by greater oxidative stability and lower hydrogen permeability in comparison to the silane with a bulk group. All the crosslinked membranes have a higher mechanical strength compared with the initial PBI-O-PhT membrane both before and after doping with PA. Despite the hardening of the polymer matrix of the membranes, their proton conductivity changes insignificantly. It was shown that cross-linked membranes can be used in fuel cells.

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