Cao Dafu, Sun Xiaowei, Gao Huan, Pan Li, Li Nanwen, Li Yuesheng
Institute of Advanced Polymer Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China.
State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China.
Polymers (Basel). 2023 Feb 21;15(5):1073. doi: 10.3390/polym15051073.
To investigate the effect of perfluorinated substituent on the properties of anion exchange membranes (AEMs), cross-linked polynorbornene-based AEMs with perfluorinated branch chains were prepared via ring opening metathesis polymerization, subsequent crosslinking reaction, and quaternization. The crosslinking structure enables the resultant AEMs (CFnB) to exhibit a low swelling ratio, high toughness, and high water uptake, simultaneously. In addition, benefiting from the ion gathering and side chain microphase separation caused by their flexible backbone and perfluorinated branch chain, these AEMs had high hydroxide conductivity up to 106.9 mS cm at 80 °C even at low ion content (IEC < 1.6 meq g). This work provides a new approach to achieve improved ion conductivity at low ion content by introducing the perfluorinated branch chains and puts forward a referable way to prepare AEMs with high performance.
为了研究全氟取代基对阴离子交换膜(AEMs)性能的影响,通过开环易位聚合、后续交联反应和季铵化反应制备了带有全氟支链的交联聚降冰片烯基AEMs。交联结构使得所得的AEMs(CFnB)同时具有低溶胀率、高韧性和高吸水性。此外,得益于其柔性主链和全氟支链引起的离子聚集和侧链微相分离,这些AEMs即使在低离子含量(IEC < 1.6 meq g)下,在80°C时也具有高达106.9 mS cm的高氢氧化物电导率。这项工作提供了一种通过引入全氟支链在低离子含量下实现提高离子电导率的新方法,并提出了一种制备高性能AEMs的可参考途径。