Brønsted acid-base ionic liquids and their use as new materials for anhydrous proton conductors

Md A B H Susan; Akihiro Noda; Shigenori Mitsushima; Masayoshi Watanabe

doi:10.1039/b300959a

Brønsted acid-base ionic liquids and their use as new materials for anhydrous proton conductors

Chem Commun (Camb). 2003 Apr 21:(8):938-9. doi: 10.1039/b300959a.

Authors

Md A B H Susan¹, Akihiro Noda, Shigenori Mitsushima, Masayoshi Watanabe

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan.

PMID: 12744308
DOI: 10.1039/b300959a

Abstract

Novel Brønsted acid-base ionic liquids, derived from a simple combination of a wide variety of organic amines with bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) amide are electroactive for H2 oxidation and O2 reduction at a Pt electrode under non-humidifying conditions, which shows the prospect of the use of protic ionic liquids as new materials for anhydrous proton conductors at elevated temperatures.