Highly hydroxide conductive ionomers with fullerene functionalities

Zhengjin Yang; Yazhi Liu; Rui Guo; Jianqiu Hou; Liang Wu; Tongwen Xu

doi:10.1039/c5cc09024e

Highly hydroxide conductive ionomers with fullerene functionalities

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Feb 14;52(13):2788-91. doi: 10.1039/c5cc09024e.

Authors

Zhengjin Yang¹, Yazhi Liu¹, Rui Guo¹, Jianqiu Hou¹, Liang Wu¹, Tongwen Xu¹

Affiliation

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Material Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China. twxu@ustc.edu.cn.

PMID: 26765494
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc09024e

Abstract

A novel ionomer was designed that will not poison the catalyst in alkaline fuel cells, by incorporating for the first time N-methyl pyrrolidine-C60 cation in polymeric anion exchange ionomers. The resultant fullerene-based anion exchange ionomer shows an extremely high hydroxide conductivity (182 mS cm(-1)) at a low cation concentration (0.62 mmol g(-1)).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't