Processing and Pretreatment Effects on Vanadium Transport in Nafion Membranes
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Here, this work describes how manufacturing processes and pretreatments affect the proton conductivity and vanadyl permeability of Nafion® and how these properties are altered by running in a cell. Five Nafion membranes were examined: reinforced XL100, dispersion cast NR211 and NR212, and extruded N115 and N117. The membranes were subjected to pretreatments that included annealing at 120°C and immersing in ambient temperature and boiling water and sulfuric acid. Vanadyl permeability varied by ~15X with pretreatment and ~3X with manufacturing process. Variations in ionic conductivity were comparatively modest: ~1.5X with pretreatment and ~1.2X with processing. Differences in permeability can be eliminated by annealing the extruded membranes above their glass-transition temperature or by immersing in boiling sulfuric acid. The differences induced by processing and pretreatments were largely absent from membranes removed from vanadium redox cells subjected to repeated charge/discharge cycles.
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