The structure of a commercial sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) (sPEEK) membrane was analyzed by Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) for different water uptakes obtained after immersion in liquid water at various temperatures. For low membrane swelling, the SAXS profile displays only a wide-angle peak in the 0.2-0.3 Å(-1) region. As the membrane swells, two supplementary correlation peaks ari...

Proton exchange membranes (PEMs) play an important role in the fuel cell systems. A good PEM must meet a series of requirements such as high proton conductivity, excellent mechanical strength and stability, chemical and electrochemical stability, low fuel crossover, etc. Nafion is currently the most commercially utilized electrolyte membranes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, with high chemic...

Cyclocondensation between 4,4`-bis(4-chlorobenzenesulfonyl)biphenyl and catechol, with subsequent chromatographic separation of the reaction products, led to isolation four novel ether-sulfone macrocycles (cyclic dimer, -trimer, -tetramer -pentamer). Similarly, cyclocondensation catechol a seven-ring diketone/disulfone monomer allowed two new aromatic ether-ketone-sulfone macrocycles, cyclic di...