Quinoxaline-based crosslinked membranes of sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone)s for fuel cell applications |
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Authors: | Pei Chen Xinbing Chen Zhongwei An Kangcheng ChenKenichi Okamoto |
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Affiliation: | a Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062, PR China b School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062, PR China c Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2-16-1, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan |
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Abstract: | A series of crosslinkable sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone)s (SPAESs) were synthesized by copolymerization of 4,4′-biphenol with 2,6-difluorobenzil and 3,3′-disulfonated-4,4′-difluorodiphenyl sulfone disodium salt. Quinoxaline-based crosslinked SPAESs were prepared via the cyclocondensation reaction of benzil moieties in polymer chain with 3,3′-diaminobenzidine to form quinoxaline groups acting as covalent and acid-base ionic crosslinking. The uncrosslinked and crosslinked SPAES membranes showed high mechanical properties and the isotropic membrane swelling, while the later became insoluble in tested polar aprotic solvents. The crosslinking significantly improved the membrane performance, i.e., the crosslinked membranes had the lower membrane dimensional change, lower methanol permeability and higher oxidative stability than the corresponding precursor membranes, with keeping the reasonably high proton conductivity. The crosslinked membrane (CS1-2) with measured ion exchange capacity of 1.53 mequiv. g−1 showed a reasonably high proton conductivity of 107 mS/cm with water uptake of 48 wt.% at 80 °C, and exhibited a low methanol permeability of 2.3 × 10−7 cm2 s−1 for 32 wt.% methanol solution at 25 °C. The crosslinked SPAES membranes have potential for PEFC and DMFCs. |
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Keywords: | Crosslinked sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) Proton exchange membrane Quinoxaline groups Methanol permeability |
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