{"id":162657,"date":"2023-04-23T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/researchers-in-japan-develop-a-new-ultra-high-density-sulfonic-acid-polymer-electrolyte-membrane-for-fuel-cells"},"modified":"2023-04-23T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T07:22:19","slug":"researchers-in-japan-develop-a-new-ultra-high-density-sulfonic-acid-polymer-electrolyte-membrane-for-fuel-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/researchers-in-japan-develop-a-new-ultra-high-density-sulfonic-acid-polymer-electrolyte-membrane-for-fuel-cells","title":{"rendered":"Researchers in Japan develop a new ultra-high-density sulfonic acid polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-in-japan-develop-a-new-ultra-high-density-sulfonic-acid-polymer-electrolyte-membrane-for-fuel-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a project commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed poly(styrenesulfonic acid)-based PEMs with a high density of sulfonic acid groups.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key components of environmentally friendly polymer electrolyte fuel cells is a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/polymer+electrolyte+membrane\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polymer electrolyte membrane<\/a> (PEM). It generates <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical energy<\/a> through a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen gases. Examples of practical fuel cells include fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fuel+cell\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fuel cell<\/a> combined heat and power (CHP) systems.<\/p>\n<p>The best-known PEM is a membrane based on a perfluorosulfonic acid polymer, such as Nafion, which was developed by DuPont in the 1960s. It has a good proton conductivity of 0.1 S\/cm at 70\u201390 \u00b0C under humidified conditions. Under these conditions, protons can be released from sulfonic acid groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a project commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed poly(styrenesulfonic acid)-based PEMs with a high density of sulfonic acid groups. One of the key components of environmentally friendly polymer electrolyte fuel cells is a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM). It generates electrical energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}