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Spectroscopic and thermal characterization of the swelling behavior of nafion membranes in mixtures of water and methanol
- Source :
- RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2012.
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Abstract
- The spectroscopic and thermal properties of swollen Nafion membranes in methanol aqueous mixtures were investigated to understand the behavior of commercial electrolytes in the presence of polar solvents. Several differences were observed in the absorption processes depending on the composition of the solvent. Deconvolution methods were applied to study specific contributions of solvents and polymer groups based on Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis. The results evidence compositional effects on the interactions between solvents and Nafion. A major influence of the nonpolar domains (hydrophobic regions) in the absorption of methanol together with a reduction of the interactions with sulfonate groups was observed. Such changes are accompanied by a modification of the cluster morphology of the equilibrated membranes evaluated by differential scanning calorimetry. These findings can be useful to improve the knowledge on Nafion’s microstructure in the presence of polar solvents<br />The authors thank the financial support of the Generalitat Valenciana, through the Grisolia and Forteza programs, and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the Research Projects ENE2007-67584-C03, UPOV08-3E-013, IT2009-0074, ENE2011-28735-C02-01 and the awarding of two FPI and FPU predoctoral grants.
- Subjects :
- Thermogravimetric analysis
Thermal properties
Membranes
Aqueous solution
Polymers and Plastics
Analytical chemistry
Infrared spectroscopy
General Chemistry
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Solvent
chemistry.chemical_compound
Membrane
Differential scanning calorimetry
chemistry
Chemical engineering
Nafion
MAQUINAS Y MOTORES TERMICOS
Materials Chemistry
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00218995
- Volume :
- 127
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Polymer Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5488ed32bd0c87e299aac8a409e92d37