Issue 30, 2015
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Chemical Communications

Towards neat methanol operation of direct methanol fuel cells: a novel self-assembled proton exchange membrane†

Jing Li,ab   Weiwei Cai,*a   Liying Ma,a   Yunfeng Zhang,a   Zhangxian Chenb  and  Hansong Cheng*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Sustainable Energy Laboratory, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, 388 Lumo RD, Wuhan, China
E-mail: willcai1985@gmail.com, chghs2@gmail.com

b Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore

Abstract

We report here a novel proton exchange membrane with remarkably high methanol-permeation resistivity and excellent proton conductivity enabled by carefully designed self-assembled ionic conductive channels. A direct methanol fuel cell utilizing the membrane performs well with a 20 M methanol solution, very close to the concentration of neat methanol.

Graphical abstract: Towards neat methanol operation of direct methanol fuel cells: a novel self-assembled proton exchange membrane

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC09420D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Nov 2014
Accepted
06 Feb 2015
First published
06 Feb 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 6556-6559

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Towards neat methanol operation of direct methanol fuel cells: a novel self-assembled proton exchange membrane

J. Li, W. Cai, L. Ma, Y. Zhang, Z. Chen and H. Cheng, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 6556 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC09420D

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