PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) fuel cell is one of the most important green energy, because it has high energy density, lifetime, small and light.etc advantages. Nafion , the major material for PEM now, However, has some disadvantages such as high cost ($600¡V1000/m2) and limited choices for operation temperature about 25¢J~80¢J. Consequently, there is an increasing interest in the development of alternative ionomer membranes with lower cost, and higher proton conductivity, and that are more easily processed. Here we present polymeric membranes made of sulfonic Poly(arylene ether)s (PAEs) which is achieved by nucleophilic displacement reactions of dihalo or dinitro compounds with alkali metal bisphenolates and direct polymer sulfonation was carried out in heterogeneous media using chlorosulfonic acid as both solvent and sulfonating agent. In our PAEs which has high Tg values about 225¡ã250¢XC depends on the barriers to rotation along the main polymer chain. And weight losses above 500 ¢XC by thermogravimetric (TGA) analysis, indicative of their high thermal stability.
After FTIR analysis we preparation sulfonated polymer successfully by using chlorosulfonic acid as sulfonating agent. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) studies were carried out to investigate the thermal stability of sulfonated PAEs (Td≈ 500¢XC). The proton conductivity of polymer s(DFB+M3) sulfonated with chlorosulfonic acid about 10-6¡ã10-7S cm-1 .Compared with Nafion membrane measured in the same condition, the conductivity of our membrane is smaller than 3~4 order. In the future, it is possible to improve the conductivity of our membrane with optimization.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0906110-163932 |
Date | 06 September 2010 |
Creators | Wu, Sheng-feng |
Contributors | Yu-Kai Han, Wen-Yao Huang, Tzong-Liu Wang, Shiao-Wei Kuo, Ko-shan Ho |
Publisher | NSYSU |
Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
Language | Cholon |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0906110-163932 |
Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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