High performance blend membranes based on sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) and poly(p-benzimidazole) for PEMFC applications

Mihee Won; Sohyun Kwon; Tae-Hyun Kim

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.29, 104-111, September, 2015

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2015.03.022 Export Citation

High performance blend membranes based on sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) and poly(p-benzimidazole) for PEMFC applications

Mihee Won, Sohyun Kwon, and Tae-Hyun Kim^†

Organic Material Synthesis Lab. Department of Chemistry, Incheon National University, 119 Academy-ro, Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-772, Korea

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Novel ionically crosslinked blend polymer membranes were developed based on sPES and p-PBI. p-PBI was used as the key component in polymeric blends with sPES to produce stable but yet still conductive and miscible membranes. Specific interactions between the acid moiety and the amine moiety contributed to the miscibility of the sPES-PBI blend polymers in DMSO. The properties of the membranes were better than those of bare membranes, and the conductivity of a 5 wt.% PBI blend membrane exceeded 0.13 S/cm at 80 8C. The influence of the p-PBI content on chemophysical properties of the blend membranes was investigated systematically.

Keywords:Polymer electrolyte membranes;Blend membranes;Ionic crosslinking;Poly(p-benzimidazole);Sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone)

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[Referenced By]

[1] Rikukawa M, Sanui K, Prog. Polym. Sci, 25, 1463 (2000)

[2] Hickner MA, Ghassemi H, Kim YS, Einsla BR, McGrath JE, Chem. Rev., 104(10), 4587 (2004)

[3] Smitha B, Sridhar S, Khan AA, J. Membr. Sci., 259(1-2), 10 (2005)

[4] Yoon KS, Lee JY, Kim TH, Yu DM, Seo DW, Hong SK, Hong YT, J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 20(4), 2310 (2014)

[5] Wang F, Hickner M, Kim YS, Zawodzinski TA, McGrath JE, J. Membr. Sci., 197(1-2), 231 (2002)

[6] Harrison WL, Wang F, Mecham JB, Bhanu VA, Hill M, Kim YS, McGrath JE, J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem., 41(14), 2264 (2003)

[7] Bae B, Yoda T, Miyatake K, Uchida H, Watanabe M, Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit., 49, 317 (2010)

[8] Peckham TJ, Holdcroft S, Adv. Mater., 22(42), 4667 (2010)

[9] Lu X, Weiss RA, Macromolecules, 24, 4381 (1991)

[10] Ng CW, Macknight WJ, Macromolecules, 29(7), 2412 (1996)

[11] Ahn TK, Kim M, Choe S, Macromolecules, 30(11), 3369 (1997)

[12] Musto P, Karasz FE, MacKnight WJ, Macromolecules, 24, 4762 (1991)

[13] Samms SR, Wasmus S, Savinell RF, J. Electrochem. Soc., 143(4), 1225 (1996)

[14] Lee JK, Kerres J, J. Membr. Sci., 294(1-2), 75 (2007)

[15] Thomas OD, Peckham TJ, Thanganathan U, Yang YS, Holdcroft S, J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem., 48(16), 3640 (2010)

[16] Adams GW, Cowie JMG, Polymer, 40(8), 1993 (1999)

[17] Makhija S, Pearce EM, Kwei TK, Liu F, Polym. Eng. Sci., 30, 798 (1990)

[18] Hasiotis C, Deimede V, Kontoyannis C, Electrochim. Acta, 46(15), 2401 (2001)

[19] Feng SG, Shang YM, Wang SB, Xie XF, Wang YZ, Wang YW, Xu JM, J. Membr. Sci., 346(1), 105 (2010)

[20] Wang JL, Liao JB, Yang L, Zhang SG, Huang XL, Ji JB, J. Membr. Sci., 415, 644 (2012)

[21] Lin HL, Hu CR, Lai SW, Yu TL, J. Membr. Sci., 389, 399 (2012)

[22] Li YX, Wang F, Yang J, Liu D, Roy A, Case S, Lesko J, McGrath JE, Polymer, 47(11), 4210 (2006)

[23] Kim YS, Hickner MA, Dong LM, Pivovar BS, McGrath JE, J. Membr. Sci., 243(1-2), 317 (2004)

[24] Krishnan NN, Lee HJ, Kim HJ, Kim JY, Hwang I, Jang JH, Cho EA, Kim SK, Henkensmeier D, Hong SA, Lim TH, Eur. Polym. J., 46, 1633 (2010)

[25] Miyatake K, Oyaizu K, Tsuchida E, Hay AS, Macromolecules, 34(7), 2065 (2001)