Issue 62, 2014
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RSC Advances

Direct spun aligned carbon nanotube web-reinforced proton exchange membranes for fuel cells†

Jonghyun Choi,a   Chanmin Lee,bc   Stephen C. Hawkins,de   Chi P. Huynh,ae   Jeongho Park,b   Yukwon Jeon,f   Yen B. Truong,a   Ilias L. Kyratzis,a   Yong-Gun Shul*bf  and  Rachel A. Caruso*ag  

* Corresponding authors

a CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia

b Graduate Program in New Energy and Battery Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 210-749, Republic of Korea

c Department of Molecular and Materials Sciences, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan

d School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AH, UK

e Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia

f Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea
E-mail: shulyg@yonsei.ac.kr
Tel: +82-2-2123-3554

g School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
E-mail: rcaruso@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61-3-8344-7146

Abstract

A new method combining electrospinning of SPEEK and direct spinning of CNT forests has been used to prepare sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) (SPEEK)/directly spinnable carbon nanotube (dsCNT) composite proton exchange membranes. The SPEEK/dsCNT membrane is more robust than SPEEK alone, and in a fuel cell significantly outperforms both SPEEK and the commercial Nafion 212 membranes.

Graphical abstract: Direct spun aligned carbon nanotube web-reinforced proton exchange membranes for fuel cells

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA03117B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Apr 2014
Accepted
18 Jul 2014
First published
29 Jul 2014

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 32787-32790

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Direct spun aligned carbon nanotube web-reinforced proton exchange membranes for fuel cells

J. Choi, C. Lee, S. C. Hawkins, C. P. Huynh, J. Park, Y. Jeon, Y. B. Truong, I. L. Kyratzis, Y. Shul and R. A. Caruso, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 32787 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA03117B

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