TY - GEN
T1 - Synthesis of Imidazole Coated Magnetic Particles as a Candidate Material for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane in Fuel Cells
AU - Atmaja, Lukman
AU - Wafiroh, Siti
AU - Nashrullah, Hubbi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - The aim of this research is to create a novel conductive material that has the capability to efficiently initiate proton transfer in a fuel cell membrane by conjugating imidazole with magnetic particles (MagP). The alignment of heterocyclic molecules by applying MagP facilitated proton transfer. The imidazole coated magnetic particles (Imid-MagP) was synthesized through several steps including the consecutive synthesis of oleic coated MagP (Oleic-MagP) and epoxy coated MagP (Epoxy-MagP). Elemental analysis of Imid-MagP was carried and the particle size distribution and morphology of Imid-MagP were investigated. It was identified that Fe was the most abundant element in Imid-MagP (87.94 wt %), the particle size distribution of Imid-MagP was 134.16 nm, and the morphology of Imid-MagP exhibited a lump-like material. The FTIR spectra of Imid-MagP exhibited a shift of imidazole at 1550 cm−1, which refers to the N-H deformation band. The ion exchange capacity (IEC), an important property in fuel cells that indicates the amount of proton exchanged in the material, of Imid-MagP was 0.675 mmol.g−1. The Imid-MagP material demonstrated excellent properties for improving proton conductivity, which is very important in fuel cell applications.
AB - The aim of this research is to create a novel conductive material that has the capability to efficiently initiate proton transfer in a fuel cell membrane by conjugating imidazole with magnetic particles (MagP). The alignment of heterocyclic molecules by applying MagP facilitated proton transfer. The imidazole coated magnetic particles (Imid-MagP) was synthesized through several steps including the consecutive synthesis of oleic coated MagP (Oleic-MagP) and epoxy coated MagP (Epoxy-MagP). Elemental analysis of Imid-MagP was carried and the particle size distribution and morphology of Imid-MagP were investigated. It was identified that Fe was the most abundant element in Imid-MagP (87.94 wt %), the particle size distribution of Imid-MagP was 134.16 nm, and the morphology of Imid-MagP exhibited a lump-like material. The FTIR spectra of Imid-MagP exhibited a shift of imidazole at 1550 cm−1, which refers to the N-H deformation band. The ion exchange capacity (IEC), an important property in fuel cells that indicates the amount of proton exchanged in the material, of Imid-MagP was 0.675 mmol.g−1. The Imid-MagP material demonstrated excellent properties for improving proton conductivity, which is very important in fuel cell applications.
KW - Magnetic particle
KW - epoxy
KW - fuel cells
KW - imidazole
KW - oleic
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-97-8712-8_48
DO - 10.1007/978-981-97-8712-8_48
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85210156452
SN - 9789819787111
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 382
EP - 389
BT - Proceedings of the ICSDI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability
A2 - Mansour, Yasser
A2 - Subramaniam, Umashankar
A2 - Mustaffa, Zahiraniza
A2 - Abdelhadi, Abdelhakim
A2 - Ezzat, Mohamed
A2 - Abowardah, Eman
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Sustainability: Developments and Innovations, ICSDI 2024
Y2 - 18 February 2024 through 22 February 2024
ER -