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SANS study of the effects of water vapor sorption on the nanoscale structure of perfluorinated sulfonic acid (NAFION) membranes

Macromolecules, ISSN: 0024-9297, Vol: 39, Issue: 14, Page: 4775-4787
2006
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Several poly(perfluorosulfonic acid) membranes (NAFION, EW = 1100) with the same sulfonic acid content were systematically investigated with SANS under in-situ water vapor sorption and/or with bulk water to quantify the effects of relative humidity (RH), membrane processing (melt-extruded and solution-casting), prehistory (pretreated at 80°C and as-received), and thickness on the nanoscale structure at room temperature. The sorption isotherm (water uptake vs RH) of the membranes showed a strong correlation between the interionic domain distance (L ) and RH. The melt-extruded membranes showed evidence of partial alignment of better organized ionic domains than those solution-cast. Pretreating the membranes resulted in a larger L and a broader scattering over the entire range of RH. The ionic peak of the melt-extruded membranes (as-received and pretreated) became more symmetric and narrower with sorption time. Diffusion coefficients of water vapor, based on structural evolution and Fick's second law, are in the range of 1 × 10 -3 × 10 cm /s for both extruded (pretreated and as-received) membranes. A thickness-dependent crystalline feature around Q ≈ 0.03 Å was also observed. © 2006 American Chemical Society.

Bibliographic Details

Man Ho Kim; Charles J. Glinka; Stephen A. Grot; Walther G. Grot

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Chemistry; Materials Science

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