Characterization of the solvation and transport of the hydrated proton in the perfluorosulfonic acid membrane nafion

MK Petersen, GA Voth - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006 - ACS Publications
The solvation and transport properties of the sulfonate− hydronium ion pair have been
studied in hydrated Nafion through molecular dynamics simulation. Explicit proton and …

Excess proton solvation and delocalization in a hydrophilic pocket of the proton conducting polymer membrane Nafion

MK Petersen, F Wang, NP Blake, H Metiu… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Solvation properties of the hydrated excess proton are studied in a hydrophilic pocket of
Nafion 117 through a series of molecular dynamics simulations. The multistate empirical …

Proton hopping in phosphoric acid solvated NAFION membrane: a molecular simulation study

L Yan, S Zhu, X Ji, W Lu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2007 - ACS Publications
Molecular simulation studies of the microstructure and of the proton transport properties of
phosphoric acid solvated Nafion membrane are carried out. The ab initio calculations show …

Comparison of the hydration and diffusion of protons in perfluorosulfonic acid membranes with molecular dynamics simulations

S Cui, J Liu, ME Selvan, SJ Paddison… - The Journal of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to determine the hydrated
morphology and hydronium ion diffusion coefficients in two different perfluorosulfonic acid …

Molecular dynamics simulations of proton transport in 3M and nafion perfluorosulfonic acid membranes

YLS Tse, AM Herring, K Kim… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Proton transfer and local structures in 3M (EW 825) and Nafion (EW 890) membranes are
investigated in this study by both standard nonreactive molecular dynamics and the self …

Effect of bound state of water on hydronium ion mobility in hydrated Nafion using molecular dynamics simulations

T Mabuchi, T Tokumasu - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We have performed a detailed analysis of the structural properties of the sulfonate groups in
terms of isolated and overlapped solvation shells in the nanostructure of hydrated Nafion …

Molecular modeling of structure and dynamics of Nafion protonation states

S Sengupta, AV Lyulin - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019 - ACS Publications
We present the results of the atomistic molecular dynamics modeling of different protonation
states of Nafion at varying hydration levels. Previous experiments have shown that the …

Molecular modeling of proton transport in the short-side-chain perfluorosulfonic acid ionomer

IH Hristov, SJ Paddison, R Paul - The Journal of Physical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
An explanation for the superior proton conductivity of low equivalent weight (EW) short-side-
chain (SSC) perfluorosulfonic acid membranes is pursued through the determination of …

Insight from molecular modelling: does the polymer side chain length matter for transport properties of perfluorosulfonic acid membranes?

R Devanathan, M Dupuis - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a detailed analysis of the nanostructure of the short side chain (SSC)
perfluorosulfonic acid membrane and its effect on H2O clustering, H3O+ and H2O diffusion …

Proton solvation and transport in hydrated nafion

S Feng, GA Voth - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2011 - ACS Publications
Proton solvation properties and transport mechanisms have been studied in hydrated Nafion
using the self-consistent multistate empirical valence bond (SCI-MS-EVB) method that …