DeCaluwe, S.
and Dura, J.
(2017),
Finite Thickness Effects on Nafion Water Uptake and Ionic Conductivity at Hydrophilic Substrate Interfaces, and Implications for PEMFC Performance, Electrochemical Society Transactions, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=923923
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Finite Thickness Effects on Nafion Water Uptake and Ionic Conductivity at Hydrophilic Substrate Interfaces, and Implications for PEMFC Performance
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Steven C. DeCaluwe,
Abstract
The effect of film thickness on water uptake in ultra-thin Nafion films is probed via in situ neutron reflectometry for a series of 10 samples with thicknesses ranging from 7 - 103 nm, and the resulting effects on ionic conductivity. The water uptake in the lamellae and the bulk-like layer varies non-monotonically, decreasing as the equivalent Nafion thickness increases from 7 nm to 12 nm, increasing with increasing film thickness for equivalent Nafion thicknesses ranging from 12 nm-60 nm, and then constant for films with equivalent thickness ≥. Composition depth profiles are used to predict the anisotropic ionic conductivities, which are used in a flooded-agglomerate model of PEMFC catalyst layers to predict the effect of lamellar structure transport properties on PEMFC performance.Citation
Electrochemical Society Transactions
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80
Issue
8
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Journals
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Keywords
Thin film ionomer, Nafion, Lamellae, confinement, PEM fuel cell, neutron eflectometry, ionic conductivity
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Created September 27, 2017, Updated October 12, 2021