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Improvement of chemical stability of polymer electrolyte fuel cell membranes by grafting of new substituted styrene monomers into ETFE films

Chen, J.; Asano, Masaharu; Yamaki, Tetsuya; Yoshida, Masaru

Journal of Materials Science, 41(4), p.1289 - 1292, 2006/02

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-005-2573-8

Times Cited Count：22 Percentile：58.32(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)

The MeSt/tBuSt/DVB-grafted polymer electrolyte membrane showed a high performance for the fuel cell applications. The tBuSt contributed the high chemical stability while the MeSt contributed the high conductivity to the resulted membrane. The DVB crosslinker in the membrane further improved the chemical stability. The new polymer electrolyte membrane with a degree of grafting of 36% showed proton conductivity as high as the Gore-Select membrane, and the durability time was about 3 times longer than that of the traditional styrene/DVB-grafted one. Therefore, the MeSt/tBuSt/DVB-grafted polymer electrolyte membrane was more possible to be used for the fuel cells.

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Preparation and characterization of chemically stable polymer electrolyte membranes by radiation-induced graft copolymerization of four monomers into ETFE films

Chen, J.; Asano, Masaharu; Yamaki, Tetsuya; Yoshida, Masaru

Journal of Membrane Science, 269(1-2), p.194 - 204, 2006/02

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2005.06.035

Times Cited Count：140 Percentile：96.02(Engineering, Chemical)

To develop a highly chemically stable polymer electrolyte membrane for application in a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), four styrene derivative monomers, m,p-methylstyrene (MeSt), p-tert-butylstyrene (tBuSt), divinylbenzene (DVB) and bis(p,p-vinyl phenyl) ethane (BVPE) were graft copolymerized into poly(ethylene-co-tetrafluoroethylene) (ETFE) films followed by sulfonation and hydrolysis. The latter two monomers were used as crosslinkers. The graft copolymerization was carried out by the -ray preirradiation method. The influence of the preirradiation dose and the grafting kinetics were investigated in detail. Sulfonation of the grafted ETFE films was performed in a chlorosulfonic acid solution, by which the sulfonation ratio reached about 90%. The newly obtained membrane possesses significantly higher chemical stability than the traditional styrene/DVB-grafted membrane and six times lower methanol permeability compared to the Nafion 112 membrane. Therefore, this study reveals the possibility of the developed inexpensive four monomers-grafted membranes, which could provide an attractive alternative as a substitute for the expensive Nafion membranes for DMFC applications.

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Assessment of irradiation temperature stability of the first irradiation testi rig in the HTTR

Shibata, Taiju; Kikuchi, Takayuki; Miyamoto, Satoshi*; Ogura, Kazutomo*

Nuclear Engineering and Design, 223(2), p.133 - 143, 2003/08

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0029-5493(03)00041-4

Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：10.87(Nuclear Science & Technology)

The High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) can provide very large spaces at high temperatures for irradiation tests. The I-I type irradiation equipment was developed as the first irradiation rig. It will be served for an in-pile creep test on a stainless steel with large standard size specimens. It uses the ambient high temperature of the core for the irradiation temperature control. The target irradiation temperatures are 550 and 600 $^{circ}$ C with the target temperature deviation of 3 $^{circ}$ C. In this study, the irradiation temperature changes at transient conditions were analyzed by an FEM code and the temperature controllability of the equipment was examined by a mockup test. The controllability was evaluated with the measured temperature transient data at the core graphite components in the Rise-to-Power tests of the HTTR. The result indicates that the temperature control method of the equipment is effective to keep the irradiation temperature stable in the irradiation test.