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Influence of the carboxylic acid groups on the structure and properties of sulfonated poly(arylene ether nitrile) copolymer
Authors:Tao Cheng  Mengna Feng  Xuechun Zhang  Yumin Huang  Xiaobo Liu
Affiliation:1.Research Branch of Advanced Functional Materials, Center for Applied Chemistry, and School of Materials Science and Engineering,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu,China
Abstract:A series of novel sulfonated poly(arylene ether nitrile) (SPEN) containing carboxylic acid group was successfully synthesized by direct aromatic nucleophilic substitution polycondensation of 2,6-difluorobenzonitrile (DFBN), potassium 2,5-dihydroxybenzenesulfonate (SHQ), phenolphthalin (PPL), and 4,4′-biphenol (BP). The expected chemical structure of copolymers was confirmed by using FTIR and 1H NMR. To balance the performance for PEM applications, the proportion of four different components were controlled. The influences of the carboxylic acid groups on the structure and properties of SPEN, including thermal and mechanical properties, oxidative stability, water uptake, swelling, proton conductivity, and methanol permeability, were investigated in detail. The results revealed that SPEN membranes containing nitrile and carboxylic acid groups could lead low water absorption, swelling, and methanol penetration. In such a way, efficient proton transport channels were constructed by the formation of the hydrogen bonds. The proton conductivity of SPEN with high sulfonation degree (DS >?0.6) was higher than 0.05 S/cm and increased with increasing temperature. Especially, the conductivity of SPEN-0.6 and SPEN-0.7 reached up to 0.157 and 0.267 S/cm at 80 °C, respectively. Meanwhile, SPEN membranes exhibit low methanol permeability (0.13 ×?10-6– 0.52 ×?10-6 cm2·s?1). Consequently, the highest selectivity of SPEN-0.6 reaches 2.02 ×?105 S·cm?3·s, which is about 4.5 times higher than that of Nafion 117 (0.45 ×?105 S·cm?3·s). All the data prove that this series of membranes exhibits excellent comprehensive performance and might have potential applications in direct methanol fuel cells.
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