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- Title
Enhanced properties of Nafion nanofibrous proton exchange membranes by altering the electrospinning solvents.
- Authors
Li, Shufeng; Gu, Ruxin; Luo, Ru; Cheng, Xinyao; Li, Xuelin
- Abstract
Nanofibrous proton exchange membranes (PEMs) play an important role in improving the performance of the fuel cells. In this paper, two kinds of Nafion nanofibrous PEMs, Nafion-E/W and Nafion-DMF, were fabricated respectively by using ethanol/water (E/W) and N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) as the solvent and their properties, such as the morphologies, water uptake, area swelling, ion exchange capabilities, conductivities, and mechanical properties were examined. Nafion-E/W nanofibers showed a thick diameter of 6,089 nm and Nafion-DMF nanofibers a thin diameter of 410 nm. Then the two Nafion nanofibers were annealed to provide the PEMs. Compared with Nafion 117 membranes and Nafion-DMF PEMs, Nafion-E/W PEMs showed the greatest water uptake and area swelling of respectively 59.75 % and 30.31 % and the conductivity increased to 0.1405 S/cm, more than twice as much as Nafion 117 membranes, but the broken stress decreased to 5.49 MPa, nearly half of Nafion 117 membranes. Nafion-DMF PEMs showed the lowest water uptake, area swelling, and conductivity of 22.67 %, 10.75 %, and 0.0410 S/cm, and the broken stress reached 14.20 MPa, greater than 11.0 MPa of Nafion 117 membranes. The obtained experimental results are instructive to improve the properties of Nafion PEMs.
- Subjects
NAFION; FUEL cells; NANOFIBERS; ELECTROSPINNING; PROTONS
- Publication
Journal of Polymer Engineering, 2024, Vol 44, Issue 7, p449
- ISSN
0334-6447
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/polyeng-2024-0022