More sustainable electricity generation in hot and dry fuel cells with a novel hybrid membrane of Nafion/nano-silica/hydroxyl ionic liquid

Li, Yan; Shi, Yan; Mehio, Nada; Tan, Mingsheng; Wang, Zhiyong; Hu, Xiaohong; Chen, George Z.; Dai, Sheng; Jin, Xianbo

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.03.075

Title: More sustainable electricity generation in hot and dry fuel cells with a novel hybrid membrane of Nafion/nano-silica/hydroxyl ionic liquid

Journal Article · Thu Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Applied Energy

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.03.075· OSTI ID:1388374

Li, Yan ^[1]; Shi, Yan ^[1]; Mehio, Nada ^[2]; Tan, Mingsheng ^[1]; Wang, Zhiyong ^[1]; Hu, Xiaohong ^[1]; Chen, George Z. ^[3]; Dai, Sheng ^[2]; Jin, Xianbo ^[4]

Wuhan Univ. (China)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Wuhan Univ. (China); Univ. of Nottingham Ningbo China (China)
Wuhan Univ. (China); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Here, a new hybrid proton exchange membrane (PEM) has been prepared from hydroxyl functionalized imidazolium ionic liquid (IL-OH), Nafion and nano-SiO₂. The IL-OH, with a hydroxyl group that acts as both a proton acceptor and donor, forms strong hydrogen bonds with both Nafion and nano-SiO₂, resulting in an effective hydrogen bond network in the ternary membrane. Such an anhydrous hydrogen-bond network, which is unknown previously, endows the PEMs with higher proton conductivity, greater thermal stability and surprisingly a more robust mechanical performance than PEMs consisting of conventional ionic liquids. The resulting PEMs have a tensile strength that is more than twice as strong as recast Nafion and an anhydrous ionic conductivity of ~55 mS cm^–1 at temperatures above 160 °C, with a proton transfer number of ~0.9. A laboratory assembled H₂–O₂ fuel cell employing this new PEM delivered a power density of 340 and 420 mW cm^–2 at 160 and 180 °C, respectively.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport Center (FIRST)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Ministry of Education of China (MOE)

Grant/Contract Number:: ERKCC61; 21173161

OSTI ID:: 1388374

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1323972

Journal Information:: Applied Energy, Vol. 175, Issue C; Related Information: FIRST partners with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (lead); Argonne National Laboratory; Drexel University; Georgia State University; Northwestern University; Pennsylvania State University; Suffolk University; Vanderbilt University; University of Virginia; ISSN 0306-2619

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Country of Publication:: United States

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