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Polymer-Inorganic Nanocomposites for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells

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Polymer-Engineered Nanostructures for Advanced Energy Applications

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Polymer/inorganic nanocomposites represent a unique class of amorphous, flexible, and isotropic materials for applications in high, intermediate, and low temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Nanocomposite polymer electrolyte membranes in PEMFCs constitute of either a polymer matrix continuous phase with dispersed inorganic proton conducting particles or a proton conducting polymer matrix continuous phase with dispersed inorganic particles. Therefore, these nanocomposites are basically composites of polymer having nanoscale building blocks of inorganic particles. These remarkable hybrid materials possess combined advantages of both the inorganic and the polymer phases, often with synergistic outcomes. In essence, materials of hybrid nature possessing nanosized interfaces between the dispersed inorganic and the continuous polymer domains present remarkable opportunities to produce unique material properties. Accordingly, significant thermal and ionic conductivities, thermal stability, flexibility, corrosion resistance, mechanical strength, dielectricity, ductility, optical density, and processability are some important and attractive attributes of these nanocomposite materials. In addition, these properties can be controlled easily by varying the composition, synthetic procedure, bonding between the polymer and the inorganic particles, and the size of the nanophases. This chapter will deal with the use of polymer/inorganic nanocomposite materials in various categories of PEMFCs, namely hydrogen, direct methanol, and microbial fuel cells. The advantages obtained upon utilizing these hybrid nanocomposite materials over that of the state-of-the-art materials will be highlighted in details. In addition, possible future directions will be provided regarding possibilities of fabricating and utilizing new and prospective hybrid materials for these applications.

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Dutta, K. (2017). Polymer-Inorganic Nanocomposites for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells. In: Lin, Z., Yang, Y., Zhang, A. (eds) Polymer-Engineered Nanostructures for Advanced Energy Applications. Engineering Materials and Processes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57003-7_15

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