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http://dx.doi.org/10.5229/JKES.2016.19.2.39

A Study on Sulfonated Fluorenyl Poly(ether sulfone)s as Catalyst Binders for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells  

Cho, Won Jae (Department of Energy Storage and Conversion Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
Lee, Mi Soon (Department of Energy Storage and Conversion Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
Lee, Youn Sik (Division of Chemical Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
Yoon, Young Gi (Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Center for Industry, Academy, and Laboratories, Korea Institute of Energy Research(KIER))
Choi, Young Woo (Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Center for Industry, Academy, and Laboratories, Korea Institute of Energy Research(KIER))
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Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society / v.19, no.2, 2016 , pp. 39-44 More about this Journal
Abstract
Oxygen reduction reaction in the fuel cell (ORR) plays a dominant role in the overall reaction. In addition, the low compatibility between the membrane and the binder consisted of different materials, greatly reduces the efficiency of the fuel cell performance. In view of these two problems, geometrically modified copolymers with 9.9_Bis (4-hydroxyphenyl) were synthesized via condensation reaction instead of conventional biphenol and were adopted as hydrocarbon ionomer binders. By utilizing these binders, two kinds of MEAs using fluorinated Nafion membrane and hydrocarbon based membrane were manufactured in order to electrochemical performance evaluation. With current-voltage curves, there was no significant difference in the 0.6 V when two types of membrane were applied. Also, tafel slope became considerably lower as compared to the Nafion membrane. Thus, it is determined that the new hydrocarbon binder is expected to contribute the improvement in performance of fuel cells.
Keywords
Polymer electrolyte fuel cells; Hydrocarbon binder;
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