2016 (2) 1

https://doi.org/10.15407/polymerj.39.04.260

Polymeric and composite materials for proton conductive membranes of fuel cells

 

I.Yu. Yevchuk1, O.I. Demchyna1, Kh.V. Demydova1, H.V. Romaniuk2, Z.M. Koval2

 

1Department of Physico-Chemistry of Fossil Fuels

L.M. Lytvynenko Institute of Physico-Organic Chemistry and Coal Chemistry

3а, Naukova str., Lviv, 79053, Ukraine; e-mail: demchynaoksana@ukr.net

2National Lviv Polytechnic University

12, S. Bandera str., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine; e-mail: groman@polynet.lviv.ua

 

Polym. J., 2016, 38, no. 2: 107-114.

 

Section: Review.

 

Language: Ukrainian.

 

Abstract:

Сurrent state of research in the development of materials for proton conductive membrane of fuel cells has been analysed. The urgency of research in this area due to the necessity of a wider introduction of energy saving technologies in different areas of the economy caused by the problems of exhaustion of natural energy resources, as well as increasing of the environmental standards has been underlined. A review of the main strategies for creation of polymeric materials having proton-conducting properties, namely: synthesis and modification of the Nafion-type fluorinated polymer membranes, obtaining of polycondensation materials of different composition, synthesis of composite and hybrid materials, has been made. New approaches to creation of alternative nonfluorinated materials for polymer membranes, including synthesis of hybrid organic-inorganic composites, use of block copolymers and ionic liquids, have been considered.

 

Key words: fuel cell, proton conductive membrane, block copolymer, organic-inorganic composite, ionic liquid.

 

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