Polymer electrolyte membranes based on ionic liquids
Polymer electrolyte membranes based on ionic liquids
Khadijeh Hooshyari1 Mehran Javanbakht2
1) Department of Chemistry, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2) Department of Chemistry, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Publication :
2nd International Conference on Engineering and Applied Science(2iceasconf.com)
Abstract :
In this work, dicationic ionic liquid (IL) 1,6-di(3-methylimidazolium) hexane bis (hexafluorophate) (DC) was used for improving the proton conductivity of Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) based polymer electrolyte membranes. The PVA-DC composite membranes are prepared as electrolytes for high temperature fuel cells applications. The PVA-DC composite membranes demonstrated high proton conductivity, mechanical and thermal stability compared with PVA membranes. The highest proton conductivity of 60 mS/cm is achieved for PVA-DC composite membranes with PVA/IL mass fraction: 11 at 70 ºC.
Keywords :
Poly(vinyl alcohol)
polymer electrolyte membranes
proton conductivity
dicationic ionic liquid.