Highly Conducting and Stable Partial Fluorinated Polymer–Silica-Based Anion Exchange Membrane for Alkaline Fuel Cells
Jyoti Ranjan Mandal,
Sweety Suhag,
Prashant Kumar
et al.
Abstract:Poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-co-HFP) was defluorinated in the presence of alkali, and 4-vinyl benzyl chloride (VBC) was grafted by free radical copolymerization in the presence of an initiator to obtain PVDF-co-HFP-g-VBC. Then, 1-methylimidazole-tethered PVDF-co-HFP-g-VBC was synthesized for architecting the partial fluorinated anion exchange membrane (AEM). To improve essential membrane properties such as conductivity and ion exchange capacity (cation charge density), silica precurso… Show more
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