Morphological tuning of polymeric nanoparticles via microfluidic platform for fuel cell applications.
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Morphological tuning of polymeric nanoparticles via microfluidic platform for fuel cell applications.

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  • 2012-11-07
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  • Journal of the American Chemical Society. - 2012
English At nanoscale length scales, the properties of particles change rapidly with the slightest change in dimension. The use of a microfluidic platform enables precise control of sub-100 nm organic nanoparticles (NPs) based on polybenzimidazole. Using hydrodynamic flow focusing, we can control the size and shape of the NPs, which in turn controls a number of particle material properties. The anhydrous proton-conducting nature of the prepared NPs allowed us to make a high-performance ion exchange membrane for fuel cell applications, and microfluidic tuning of the NPs allowed us subsequently to tune the fuel cell performance.
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