Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs): Advances and challenges

MM Tellez-Cruz, J Escorihuela, O Solorza-Feria… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
The study of the electrochemical catalyst conversion of renewable electricity and carbon
oxides into chemical fuels attracts a great deal of attention by different researchers. The …

Classical dynamical density functional theory: from fundamentals to applications

M te Vrugt, H Löwen, R Wittkowski - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is one of the cornerstones of modern
statistical mechanics. It is an extension of the highly successful method of classical density …

Review of advanced materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

A Kraytsberg, Y Ein-Eli - Energy & Fuels, 2014 - ACS Publications
The scientific community is focused on the development of inexpensive and high-performing
membrane materials for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells (FCs). The major …

Effective ion mobility in anion exchange ionomers: Relations with hydration, porosity, tortuosity, and percolation

P Knauth, L Pasquini, R Narducci, E Sgreccia… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
The effective mobility of hydroxide, chloride and fluoride ions is reported in various anion
exchange membranes (AEM) with a backbone of polysulfone (PSU) or poly (2, 6-dimethyl-1 …

Coarse-grained modeling of ion-containing polymers

Z Zhu, X Luo, SJ Paddison - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ion-containing polymers have continued to be an important research focus for several
decades due to their use as an electrolyte in energy storage and conversion devices …

Self-assembly in Nafion membranes upon hydration: Water mobility and adsorption isotherms

A Vishnyakov, AV Neimark - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014 - ACS Publications
By means of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, we
explored geometrical, transport, and sorption properties of hydrated Nafion-type …

[HTML][HTML] Coarse-grained model of nanoscale segregation, water diffusion, and proton transport in Nafion membranes

A Vishnyakov, R Mao, MT Lee… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We present a coarse-grained model of the acid form of Nafion membrane that explicitly
includes proton transport. This model is based on a soft-core bead representation of the …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale atomistic and quantum-mechanical simulations of a Nafion membrane: Morphology, proton solvation and charge transport

PV Komarov, PG Khalatur… - Beilstein journal of …, 2013 - beilstein-journals.org
Atomistic and first-principles molecular dynamics simulations are employed to investigate
the structure formation in a hydrated Nafion membrane and the solvation and transport of …

Ionomer self-assembly in dilute solution studied by coarse-grained molecular dynamics

M Ghelichi, K Malek, MH Eikerling - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, reported in this article, elucidate the self-
assembly of semiflexible ionomer molecules into cylindrical bundle-like aggregates …

[HTML][HTML] Coarse-grained model of water diffusion and proton conductivity in hydrated polyelectrolyte membrane

MT Lee, A Vishnyakov, AV Neimark - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), we simulate nanoscale segregation, water
diffusion, and proton conductivity in hydrated sulfonated polystyrene (sPS). We employ a …