Side Chain Engineering of Sulfonated Poly(arylene ether)s for Proton Exchange Membranes

Xiang Zhang; Zhi-Wen Li; Xia-Lin Chen; Dong-Yang Chen; Yu-Ying Zheng

doi:10.1007/s10118-020-2371-4

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Side Chain Engineering of Sulfonated Poly(arylene ether)s for Proton Exchange Membranes

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- Side Chain Engineering of Sulfonated Poly(arylene ether)s for Proton Exchange Membranes
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 38, Issue 6, Pages: 644-652(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
  b.PowerChina Railway Construction Co., Ltd, Beijing 100037, China
- Author bio：
  
  dongyang.chen@fzu.edu.cn (D.Y.C.)
  yyzheng@fzu.edu.cn (Y.Y.Z.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-020-2371-4
  CLC：
- Received：06 September 2019，
  
  Revised：2019-11-3，
  
  Accepted：11 November 2019，
  
  Online First：13 December 2019，
  
  Published：2020-06
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Zhang, X.; Li, Z. W.; Chen, X. L.; Chen, D. Y.; Zheng, Y. Y. Side chain engineering of sulfonated poly(arylene ether)s for proton exchange membranes. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 644–652

Xiang Zhang, Zhi-Wen Li, Xia-Lin Chen, et al. Side Chain Engineering of Sulfonated Poly(arylene ether)s for Proton Exchange Membranes[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2020, 38(6): 644-652.
Zhang, X.; Li, Z. W.; Chen, X. L.; Chen, D. Y.; Zheng, Y. Y. Side chain engineering of sulfonated poly(arylene ether)s for proton exchange membranes. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 644–652 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2371-4.

Xiang Zhang, Zhi-Wen Li, Xia-Lin Chen, et al. Side Chain Engineering of Sulfonated Poly(arylene ether)s for Proton Exchange Membranes[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2020, 38(6): 644-652. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2371-4.

摘要

Abstract

Proton conductivity of proton exchange membranes (PEMs) strongly relies on microscopic morphology

which can be modulated by engineering the distribution of ionic groups. Herein

poly(arylene ether)s with densely distributed allyl functionalities are polymerized from a tetra-allyl bisphenol A monomer. The subsequent thiol-ene addition with sodium 3-mercapto-1-propanesulfonate yields comb-shaped sulfonated fluorinated poly(arylene ether)s (SFPAEs) with ion exchange capacities (IECs) ranging from 1.29 mmol·g

−1

to 1.78 mmol·g

−1

. These SFPAEs exhibit superior proton conductivity over the whole temperature range

which is attributed to the enhanced hydrophilic/hydrophobic phase separation as evidenced by small angle X-ray scattering characterizations. The

SFPAE-4-40

with an IEC of 1.78 mmol·g

−1

shows the largest proton conductivity of 93 mS·cm

−1

at room temperature under fully hydrated condition

higher than that of Nafion 212. Furthermore

the vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) assembled with

SFPAE-4-40

separator exhibits higher energy efficiency than the VRFB assembled with Nafion 212.

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