Ion conductive polymer electrolyte membrane having ion channel size controlled according to phase separation improvement effect of polar solvent during casting of ion conductive polymer electrolyte membrane, and preparation method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10797334-B2
Application number	US-201716091573-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2017
Priority date	Apr 7, 2016
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

Provided are an proton conducting polymer electrolyte membrane and a manufacturing method thereof which control the proton conducting nanochannel size and proton conductivity by phase separation improvement of a polar aprotic solvent in casting the proton conducting polymer electrolyte membrane.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling proton conducting nanochannel size of a polymer electrolyte membrane, comprising:
a stage of mixing a solution comprising an proton conducting non-fluorinated polymer electrolyte or proton conducting fluorinated polymer electrolyte and an organic solvent with a hydrophilic solvent at a predetermined ratio, wherein the organic solvent is a polar aprotic solvent used for dissolving a polymer and the hydrophilic solvent is a polar protic solvent which has higher polarity compared with the organic solvent; and
a stage of drying the solution by coating the solution on a matrix,
wherein:
if the proton conducting fluorinated polymer electrolyte is used, an amine-based hydrophilic anion exchange functional group or at least one hydrophilic cation exchange functional group among a sulfonic acid group (SO 3 H), an amine group (NH 3 ) and a phosphoric acid group (—PO 3 H 2 ) are bonded to a fluorinated polymer; and
if the proton conducting non-fluorinated polymer electrolyte is used, the amine-based hydrophilic anion exchange functional group or at least one of the hydrophilic cation exchange functional group among the sulfonic acid group (SO 3 H), the amine group (NH 3 ) and the phosphoric acid group (—PO 3 H 2 ) are bonded to any one of a non-fluorinated polymer among polyarylene-based polymers, polyetherketone and polyetherehterketone.

2. The method of controlling proton conducting nanochannel size of a polymer electrolyte membrane of claim 1 , wherein the organic solvent is one selected from the group of N,N-dimethylacetamide, N-methyl pyrrolidone, dimethyl sulfoxide, and N,N-dimethylformamide, while the hydrophilic solvent is at least one selected from the group of t-butanol, n-propanol, ethanol, methanol, ammonia, acetic acid and water.

3. The method of controlling proton conducting nanochannel size of a polymer electrolyte membrane of claim 1 , wherein the proton conducting fluorinated polymer which is at least one selected from the fluorinated group of polytetrafluoroethrylene, polyvinylfluoride, polyvinylidine fluoride, and polyethylenetetrafluoroethylene, is bonded to a hydrophilic ionic exchange functional group which is at least one of the hydrophilic proton exchange functional group of the sulfonic acid group (SO 3 H), the amine group (NH 3 ), and the phosphoric acid group (—PO 3 H 2 ) and a structure having the amine-based hydrophilic anion exchange functional group.

4. The method of controlling proton conducting nanochannel size of a polymer electrolyte membrane of claim 1 , wherein the proton conducting non-fluorinated polymer electrolyte is a proton conducting polymer membrane of sulfonated polyetheretherketone, sulfonated polyetherketone, sulfonated polyethersulfone, or sulfonated polyarylethersulfone, or an anproton conducting polymer membrane.

5. A method of increasing proton conductivity of a polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cells by controlling proton conducting nanochannel size of the polymer electrolyte membrane of claim 1 .

6. A method of increasing proton conductivity of a polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cells by controlling proton conducting nanochannel size of the polymer electrolyte membrane of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Univ Sogang Res Foundation
• Sogang Univ Research Foundation Sogang Univ

Inventors

• Rhee Heewoo
• Kim Sangwoo
• Youn Taeyung
• Choi Seungyoung

Classifications

• H01M8/1032

  having sulfur, e.g. sulfonated-polyethersulfones [S-PES] · CPC title

• C08J5/2256

  based on macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those involving carbon-to-carbon bonds, e.g. obtained by polycondensation · CPC title

• C08J5/2237

  containing fluorine · CPC title

• H01M8/1069

  characterised by the manufacturing processes · CPC title

• C08J2327/12

  containing fluorine atoms · CPC title