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Proton Transfer in Phosphoric Acid Based Fuel Cell Membranes

Proton Transfer in Phosphoric Acid Based Fuel Cell Membranes Joel R. Fried, Chemical & Materials Engineering.

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Proton Transfer in Phosphoric Acid Based Fuel Cell Membranes

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  1. Proton Transfer in Phosphoric Acid Based Fuel Cell Membranes Joel R. Fried, Chemical & Materials Engineering Phosphoric acid (PA), H3PO4, is used as a dopant in fuel cell membranes including those made from high-temperature polymers such as polybenzimidazoles in order to increase conductivity. The focus of this project is to study the mechanism of proton transfer (PT) insilico for several different PA-doped polybenzimidazole systems using hybrid ab initio (ADMP) molecular dynamics techniques. Proton affinities of PA and intermediate structures have been obtained using MP2 calculations with quad zeta basis sets as well as by DFT (B3LYP) calculations. For the first time, ADMP B3LYP/6-31++(d,p) calculations of a cluster of three PA molecules at 298 K has shown that PT in PA can occur in less than 55 fs as shown by the time series below; within 350 fs, two PA ionic species (i.e., H4PO4+ and H2PO4-) have formed through three PT events. one proton transfer two proton transfers

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