Hong Yeon Lee, Hyung Kwon Hwang, Jin Goo Lee, Yukwon Jeon, Dae-Hwan Park, Jong Hak Kim, and Yong-Gun Shul
Department of Chemical and Bio-molecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea
Electrospun poly(ether sulfone) (PES) membrane impregnated with Nafion (PES-N)
have been developed for high-temperature polymer-electrolyte membrane fuel cell (HTPEMFC).
The PES-N obtains highly thermal stability up to 430oC, which is higher than that
of the commercial Nafion 212. The PES-N membrane shows a good proton conductivity of
about 10-2 S cm-1 in a temperature range from 75oC to 120oC. The membrane-electrode assembly
(MEA) with the PES-N membrane exhibits a current density of 1.697 A cm-2 at 75oC, and
0.813 A cm-2 at 110oC when the applied voltage is 0.6 V, whereas the MEA with the Nafion
212 membrane shows the current density of 0.647 Acm-2 at 110oC. The results suggest that the
PES-N can be a good candidate for a polymer electrolyte membrane of the HT-PEMFC.
Keyword : Polymer Electrolyte Membrane; Nafion; Poly(ether sulfone); Electrospinning; Thermal
Stability