Author : Sayema Khan Tuli
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Book Synopsis SYNTHESIS DESIGN OF POLYSTYRENE BASED ANION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES: STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHEMICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES IN ALKALINE FUEL CELL CONDITIONS by : Sayema Khan Tuli
Download or read book SYNTHESIS DESIGN OF POLYSTYRENE BASED ANION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES: STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHEMICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES IN ALKALINE FUEL CELL CONDITIONS written by Sayema Khan Tuli and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs) are an alternative renewable energy source with potential benefits including use of non-precious metal catalysts, facile electro-kinetics, and high power density. Despite these advantages, development of chemically robust and highly conductive anion exchange membranes (AEMs) is the great challenge. The properties of polymeric AEMs depend on many parameters, for example, backbone structures, morphology of membranes, and chemical stability of the ion transporting group. Therefore, all of these interconnected parameters have to be addressed and studied for AEM development. The objectives of this dissertation are 1) to develop durable membranes with high anion conductivity by cost effective materials and methods, and 2) to understand the structure-property relationship by designing polymer structures and membrane morphology. To achieve these goals, the presented research focuses on development of polystyrene (PS) based AEMs by the post-crosslinking method using the click reaction. The first work of this dissertation (chapter 2) was to establish a facile and effective AEM fabrication method. AEMs with optimized ion exchange capacity (IEC) and degree of crosslinking showed the improvement of electrochemical properties and fuel cell performance. Different PS architectures including block and random copolymers with the benchmark cation for AEM, benzyltrimethylammonium (BTMA), were designed and synthesized in our next step (chapter 3). The focus in this particular series was to study the effect of membrane morphology on ion conductive properties. Significant differences were observed between random and block copolymer based AEMs. The nano-scale ordered morphology of the block membranes led to satisfactory ion transport properties as well as improved durability of the membranes. Furthermore, the fuel cell test revealed that the block membranes maintained superior performance after multiple polarization curves in comparison with one of the best commercial AEMs (A201). The stability of cations is another crucial subject for AEM progress. Therefore, a novel AEM with phenyltrimethylammonium (PTMA) was fabricated from the PS based block copolymer, which was designed to avoid cation degradation through the elimination and nucleophilic substitution reactions (chapter 4). The preliminary data indicated that this novel AEM had higher thermal and chemical stability than the BTMA based AEM with similar structure.