Composite sPEEK with Nanoparticles for Fuel Cell's Applications: Review

Abstract

The membranes in fuel cells must both conduct protons and serve as a barrier for fuel. This review discusses modifications nanoparticles of sPEEK (sulfonated polyether-ether ketone), sPEEK have advantages properties as fuel cell’s membranes such as proton conductivity, mechanical strength, thermal stability, cheap, easily to handle and low fuel crossover. The main reason for researchers to modify with nanoparticles and adopt composite membrane of sPEEK in efforts to enhance properties of sPEEK, so composite allow a blending/modification to improve an overall material performance, several modification with effect by adding nanoparticles, such as with inorganic oxide, clay, zeolite, conductive polymers, protons conductive fillers.