Small angle neutron scattering data of polymer electrolyte membranes partially swollen in water

Yue Zhao; Miru Yoshida; Tatsuya Oshima; Satoshi Koizumi; Masahiro Rikukawa; Noemi Szekely; Aurel Radulescu; Dieter Richter

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.03.011

Small angle neutron scattering data of polymer electrolyte membranes partially swollen in water

Data Brief. 2016 Mar 9:7:599-603. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.03.011. eCollection 2016 Jun.

Authors

Yue Zhao¹, Miru Yoshida², Tatsuya Oshima², Satoshi Koizumi³, Masahiro Rikukawa², Noemi Szekely⁴, Aurel Radulescu⁴, Dieter Richter⁵

Affiliations

¹ Quantum Beam Science Center (QuBS), Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Watanuki-machi 1233, Takasaki, Gunma 370-1292, Japan.
² Department of Material Science, Sophia University, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan.
³ Department of Engineering, Ibaraki University, Hitachi 615-8510, Japan.
⁴ Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Centre for Neutron Science @ MLZ, Lichtenbergstraße 1, D-85747 Garching, Germany.
⁵ Jülich Centre for Neutron Science & Institute for Complex Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany.

Abstract

In this article, we show the small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) data obtained from the polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) equilibrated at a given relative humidity. We apply Hard-Sphere (HS) structure model with Percus-Yervick interference interactions to analyze the dataset. The molecular structure of these PEMs and the morphologies of the fully water-swollen membranes have been elucidated by Zhao et al. "Elucidation of the morphology of the hydrocarbon multi-block copolymer electrolyte membranes for proton exchange fuel cells" [1].

Keywords: Hard-sphere model; Polymer electrolyte membranes; Small angle neutron scattering.