报告题目: NOVEL MEMBRANE FOR DIRECT ETHANOL ALKALINE FUEL CELL

报告人: Peter Po-Jen Chu 諸柏仁 教授 台湾中央大学

时间: 2013年10月24日14:00

地点: A520

主持人: 邓宗武 研究员

个人经历:

台湾大学化学系学士 (1980)

美国爱荷华州立大学物理化学博士 (1983-1987)

德州农工大学 研究员 (1987-1990)

菲立普石油公司研究员 (1990-1993)

中央大学化学系副教授(1993-2001)、教授(2001-)

马普高分子研究所访问学者 (2005)

研究兴趣: 致力于新型光电高分子材料开发；探讨其离子与电子传导发光机制；以及该材料在再生能源科技领域的应用.

报告摘要：Alkaline fuel cell receives growing attention in recent years, because it offers the potential to reduce fuel cell cost by using non-platinum based catalyst.  However, ideal membrane that meets all requirements of alkali fuel cell is still absent.  Variety of membranes systems are being explored which include anion exchange membranes (AEM), cation exchange membranes (CEM) and polyphenylene imidazole membranes (Alkali doped PBI).  AEM has low thermal stability and the tendency to loss base functional group at high temperature. On the other hand, CEM and PBI suffer from lower OH- conductivity and the leaching-out of counter cation (Na+ and K+) after long-operation.  Modification of Nafion-based CEM is the most advantageous, because it offers both durability and mechanical stability at high temperature. To circumvent the low OH- conductivity in the Nafion-based CEM, an AEM component made from bismaleic imide hyper-branched oligomer is physically cross-linked with alkali ion (K+) exchanged Nafion. This composite shows impressive OH- conductivity (0.6 S/cm) at elevated high temperatures mainly attributed to the base function of the hyper-branched oligomer augments OH- transport.  Furthermore, the nano-structure imbedded in Nafion has effectively blocked the fuel (H2, methanol and ethanol) permeation while preserved adequate amount of water to sustain good ion conductivity at elevated temperature.  This novel design has successfully married the advantages of both CEM and AEM in one composite which displayed strong membrane mechanical strength; displayed impressive conductivity in low humidity (or at elevated temperature) and reduced ethanol cross-over.  Ethanol fuel cell performance using this composite membrane (5%-mBMI (72) / K-Nafion) is confirmed to be higher (80 mW/cm2) than that use K-Nafion membrane at 90⁰C with 1M KOH /ethanol fuel.