Substrate film, catalyst transfer sheet, method for producing membrane electrode assembly, and method for producing catalyst layer-coated electrolyte membrane

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018244882-A1
Application number	US-201815962960-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 25, 2018
Priority date	Mar 31, 2014
Publication date	Aug 30, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention provides a substrate film that has a catalyst coating liquid having good coating properties when producing a membrane electrode assembly, has a catalyst layer and support film having good release properties after the catalyst layer is transferred to an electrolyte membrane using a catalyst transfer sheet, and does not contaminate the catalyst layer. Provided is a substrate film for a catalyst transfer sheet, said substrate film being formed by introducing fluorine atoms to at least one surface of a base film formed from one or more types of polymers selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polyethylene napthalate, polyphenylene sulfide, polysulf ones, polyether ketone, polyether ether ketone, polyimides, polyetherimide, polyamides, polyamide-imides, polybenzimidazoles, polycarbonates, polyarylates, and polyvinyl chloride, wherein the ratio, measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, of the number of fluorine atoms/the number of carbon atoms in the surface to which the fluorine atoms are introduced, i.e. the modified surface, is 0.02-1.9, inclusive.

First claim

1 . A catalyst transfer sheet comprising a catalyst layer formed on a substrate film,
wherein
the substrate film comprises a modified surface and a base film,
the substrate film modified surface is formed by introducing fluorine atoms to at least one surface of the base film that is formed from one or more types of polymers selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polyethylene napthalate, polyphenylene sulphide, polysulfones, polyether ketone, polyether ether ketone, polyimides, polyetherimide, polyamides, polyamide-imides, polybenzimidazoles, polycarbonates, polyarylates, and polyvinyl chloride, and
the ratio, measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, of the number of fluorine atoms/number of carbon atoms in the substrate film modified surface to which the fluorine atoms are introduced is 0.02 or more and 1.9 or less.

2 . The substrate film according to claim 1 , wherein a contact angle of water on the modified surface is 90 degrees or less.

3 . The substrate film according to claim 1 , wherein the introduction of fluorine atoms is performed by bringing the base film into contact with a fluorine gas.

4 . The substrate film according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio, measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, of the number of oxygen atoms/number of carbon atoms in the modified surface is 0.10 or more and 1.0 or less.

5 . The catalyst transfer sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the catalyst layer comprises a catalyst metal, a carbon material and an electrolyte polymer solution.

6 . The catalyst transfer sheet according to claim 5 , wherein
the catalyst metal comprises one or more of, or an alloy of one or more of, platinum palladium, ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, manganese, cobalt or gold; the carbon material comprises amorphous or crystalline carbon; and the electrolyte polymer solution contains an electrolyte polymer that is a hydrocarbon-based or fluorine-based polymer having an ionic group.

7 . A method for producing a membrane electrode assembly comprising a step of bringing a catalyst layer surface of the catalyst transfer sheet according to claim 5 into contact with an electrolyte membrane or a gas diffusion layer to bond the catalyst layer, and then separating the substrate film from the catalyst layer.

8 . A method for producing a catalyst layer-coated electrolyte membrane comprising a step of bringing a catalyst layer surface of the catalyst transfer sheet according to claim 5 into contact with an electrolyte membrane to bond the catalyst layer, and then separating the substrate film from the catalyst layer.

Assignees

• Toray Industries

Inventors

• Adachi Shinya
• Izuhara Daisuke

Classifications

• H01M8/1004

  characterised by membrane-electrode assemblies [MEA] (H01M8/12 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01M4/8814

  Temporary supports, e.g. decal · CPC title

• H01M2008/1095

  Fuel cells with polymeric electrolytes · CPC title

• H01M4/8817

  Treatment of supports before application of the catalytic active composition (coated porous composites H01M8/0245) · CPC title

• H01M4/8821

  Wet proofing · CPC title