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Recent Developments on Proton Conduc‐ting Poly(2,5‐benzimidazole) (ABPBI) Membranes for High Temperature Poly‐mer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
Author(s) -
Asensio J. A.,
GómezRomero P.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
fuel cells
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1615-6854
pISSN - 1615-6846
DOI - 10.1002/fuce.200400081
Subject(s) - membrane , phosphoric acid , electrolyte , benzimidazole , proton exchange membrane fuel cell , thermal stability , conductivity , polymerization , chemical engineering , monomer , materials science , proton , polymer chemistry , chemistry , polymer , organic chemistry , electrode , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , physics , engineering
Commercial polybenzimidazole (PBI) membranes impregnated with phosphoric acid have become a serious candidate as electrolytes for high temperature PEMFC. Much research effort has been devoted to the study of this proton conducting membrane.[1, 2] On the other hand, PBI is not the simplest nor the cheapest of this family and many other polybenzimidazoles would also be of great interest in this respect. Among them, poly(2,5‐benzimidazole) (ABPBI) is one of the best choices [3]. ABPBI is easy to polymerize from a single monomer, even without previous purification, it absorbs more acid than PBI in the same bath concentration, and it has the same thermal stability and high proton conductivity at temperatures up to 200 °C. Here we review all the recent developments on the preparation of proton conducting ABPBI membranes, mainly by phosphoric acid impregnation, but also by sulfonation or doping with heteropolyacids to form hybrid organic‐inorganic membranes.