• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2007년도 춘계학술발표대회 및 제12회 신소재 심포지엄
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• pp.39.2-39.2
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• 2007

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.1559-1562
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• 2009

The influence of hot pressing on the pore structures of Nafion membranes was investigated by observing the Nafion before and after hot pressing with $^1H$ nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The freezing point depression and chemical shift data of water in the Nafion indicated the presence of two different pore size ranges in Nafion. Hot pressing mainly reduced the sizes and number of the big pores. The reduction of water uptake and proton conductivity after hot pressing was explained by this variation of pore size and number. We demonstrated the potential application of chemical shift data and NMR cryoporometry experiments to measure the relative pore sizes, on a nano scale, and numbers.