C-2.1 Membrane and Ionomer Characterization

Tuesday, 2 October 2018: 14:00-17:20
Star 7 (Sunrise Center)
Chairs:
Ahmet Kusoglu and Michael Hickner
14:40
(Invited) Interactions in Ionomers: From Cations to Confinement
P. Dudenas, M. Tesfaye, and A. Kusoglu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:20
Effect of Annealing Treatment for the Morphology and Proton Transport Property of Nafion Thin-Film on Platinum Electrode
X. Gao (Kyoto University), K. Yamamoto (Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies), T. Uchiyama (Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University), N. Takao (Device-functional analysis Department, NISSAN ARC, Ltd.), M. Matsumoto, H. Imai (Device Analysis Department, NISSAN ARC, Ltd.), S. Katayama (FC-Cubic), S. Sugawara (FC-Cubic Technology Research Association), K. Shinohara (Fuel Cell Cutting-edge Research Center (FC-Cubic)), and Y. Uchimoto (Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)
15:40
Break
16:00
Effect of Ionomer Equivalent Weight and Side Chain Length on Catalyst Layer Transport Resistances
N. Ramaswamy, V. Konduru, and S. Kumaraguru (General Motors Company)
16:20
Impact of Co-Alloy Leaching and Cation in Ionomer Thin-Films
M. Tesfaye and A. Kusoglu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
17:00
Development of an Ion Exchange Membrane Characterization Protocol
L. E. Nuñez Toledo (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), M. A. Parada Silva (Universidad Nacional De Colombia), and C. I. Sanchez Saenz (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)