• 文献标题:   Biomimetic N-Doped Graphene Membrane for Proton Exchange Membranes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZENG ZY, SONG RY, ZHANG SP, HAN X, ZHU Z, CHEN XB, WANG LD
  • 作者关键词:   proton exchange membranes pems, graphene, fuel cell, mass transport, biomimetic
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   19
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00813 EA APR 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Proton exchange membranes (PEMs) with both high selectivity and high permeance are of great demand in hydrogen-based applications, especially in fuel cells. Although graphene membranes have shown high selectivity of protons over other ions and molecules, the relatively low permeance of protons through perfect pristine graphene restricts its practical applications. Inspired by the nitrogen-assisted proton transport in biological systems, we introduced N-doping to increase the proton permeance and proposed a type of N-doped graphene membranes (NGMs) for proton exchange, which have both high proton permeance and high selectivity. Compared to the state-of-the-art commercial PEMs, the NGMs show significant increases in both areal proton conductivity (2-3 orders of magnitude) and selectivity of proton to methanol (1-2 orders of magnitude). The work realized the controllable tuning of proton permeance of the graphene membrane with N-doping and developed a new type of graphene-based PEMs with high performance for practical applications.