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Perfluorinated sulfonic acid (PFSA) ionomers have been used as polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) materials owing to their excellent chemical durability and proton conductivity. However, the PFSA ionomers are suffering from fast hydrogen crossover and, thereby, chemical degradation in the membrane state. To solve these issues is to make reinforced membranes by filling proton-conductive PFSA ionomers in the pores of chemically robust poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) support films. However, it is very difficult to obtain PFSA-PTFE reinforced membranes with improved hydrogen barrier property. In this study, PFSA-PTFE reinforced membranes were fabricated by immersing commercial reinforced membrane in PFSA ionomer dispersions with different chemical architectures and particle sizes and their effects were systematically investigated.
