MuSR Studies of the Proton Conducting Polymer Nafion

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The fluorinated ionomer Nafion is a material that provides efficient proton conducting membranes for application in important technological areas such as hydrogen fuel cells. Despite being carefully studied for the 20 years or so since it was first discovered by the DuPont company, the microscopic mechanisms for proton transport in this polymer are still only poorly understood. We have made an exploratory muon study of Nafion that has demonstrated that the muon probe is highly sensitive to the hydration state of the polymer and to the dynamical processes of the various subphases within the material. A three component model is found to describe the data well, with an F-mu-F component reflecting muons in the polymer matrix and further components reflecting quasistatic and highly dynamic proton-coupled environments. This proposal aims to continue on from these promising first results

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24087901
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24087901
Provenance
Creator Dr Francis Pratt; Dr Peter Baker; Professor Stephen Blundell; Professor Tom Lancaster
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-10-06T09:51:42Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-10-09T08:11:14Z