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Development of polystyrene sulfonate/glycol chitosan hybrid membrane for direct methanol fuel cell
- Source :
- Desalination and Water Treatment. 51:5254-5259
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2013.
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Abstract
- The direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) is the battery of the system, which directly supplies methanol to the cell containing a polyelectrolyte membrane. As for DMFC, a miniaturization and weight saving in the whole system are possible, because device does not have to constitute reformer. Therefore, DMFC is expected as a power source of a mobile device. Polyelectrolyte membranes for DMFC need a characteristic of the proton conductivity and the reduction of methanol crossover (MCO). In this research, hybrid membrane comprising a polystyrene sulfonate (PSS) and a glycol chitosan (G-Ch) was investigated. PSS/G-Ch hybrid membranes were prepared by cast method and were cross-linked with glutaraldehyde (GA) to reduce the water content. From the Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) measurement, the amino group of the G-Ch origin and the sulfonate group of the PSS origin in hybrid membranes generated ionic bond. On the other hand, the proton conductivity of the hybr...
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Ocean Engineering
Pollution
Polyelectrolyte
Polystyrene sulfonate
chemistry.chemical_compound
Direct methanol fuel cell
Sulfonate
Membrane
Chemical engineering
chemistry
Attenuated total reflection
Polymer chemistry
Methanol
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Water Science and Technology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19443986 and 19443994
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Desalination and Water Treatment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........10bd5ebd04eaf6c7abde3597d6afa935