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    Thin organic‐inorganic anti‐fouling hybrid‐films for microreactor components
    (2022) Neßlinger, Vanessa; Welzel, Stefan; Rieker, Florian; Meinderink, Dennis; Nieken, Ulrich; Grundmeier, Guido
    Deposit formation and fouling in reactors for polymer production and processing especially in microreactors is a well‐known phenomenon. Despite the flow and pressure loss optimized static mixers, fouling occurs on the surfaces of the mixer elements. To improve the performance of such parts even further, stainless steel substrates are coated with ultra‐thin films which have low surface energy, good adhesion, and high durability. Perfluorinated organosilane (FOTS) films deposited via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) are compared with FOTS containing zirconium oxide sol‐gel films regarding the prevention of deposit formation and fouling during polymerization processes in microreactors. Both film structures led to anti‐adhesive properties of microreactor component surfaces during aqueous poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) synthesis. To determine the morphology and surface chemistry of the coatings, different characterization methods such as X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy as well as microscopic methods such as field‐emission scanning electron microscopy (FE‐SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) are applied. The surface free energy and wetting properties are analyzed by means of contact angle measurements. The application of thin film‐coated mixing elements in a microreactor demonstrates a significant lowering in pressure increase caused by a reduced deposit formation.
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    Novel anion exchange membrane based on poly(pentafluorostyrene) substituted with mercaptotetrazole pendant groups and its blend with polybenzimidazole for vanadium redox flow battery applications
    (2020) Cho, Hyeongrae; Atanasov, Vladimir; Krieg, Henning M.; Kerres, Jochen A.
    In order to evaluate the performance of the anion exchange membranes in a vanadium redox flow battery, a novel anion exchange polymer was synthesized via a three step process. Firstly, 1-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-5-mercaptotetrazole was grafted onto poly(pentafluorostyrene) by nucleophilic F/S exchange. Secondly, the tertiary amino groups were quaternized by using iodomethane to provide anion exchange sites. Finally, the synthesized polymer was blended with polybenzimidazole to be applied in vanadium redox flow battery. The blend membranes exhibited better single cell battery performance in terms of efficiencies, open circuit voltage test and charge-discharge cycling test than that of a Nafion 212 membrane. The battery performance results of synthesized blend membranes suggest that those novel anion exchange membranes are promising candidates for vanadium redox flow batteries.
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    Coupled electrohydrodynamic and thermocapillary instability of multi-phase flows using an incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics method
    (2022) Almasi, Fatemeh; Hopp-Hirschler, Manuel; Hadjadj, Abdellah; Nieken, Ulrich; Safdari Shadloo, Mostafa
    This paper concerns the study of coupled effects of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) and thermocapillary (TC) on the dynamic behaviour of a single liquid droplet. An incompressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (ISPH) multiphase model is used to simulate EHD-TC driven flows. The complex hydrodynamic interactions are modeled using the continuum surface force (CSF) method, in which the gradient of the interfacial tension and the Marangoni forces are calculated with an approximated error or 0.014% in the calculation of Marangoni force compared to the analytical solutions which is a significant improvement in comparison with previous SPH simulation studies, under the assumption that the thermocapillarity generates sufficiently large stress to allow droplet migration, while the electrohydrodynamic phenomena influences the droplet morphology depending on the electrical and thermal ratios of the droplet and the ambient fluid. This study shows that, when applying a vertical electric field and thermal gradient, the droplet starts to stretch horizontally towards a break-up condition at a high rate of electrical permitivity. The combined effect of thermal gradient and electric field tends to push further the droplet towards the break-up regime. When the thermal gradient and the electric field vector are orthogonal, results show that the droplet deformation would take place more slowly and the Marangoni forces cause the droplet to migrate, while the stretching in the direction of the electric field is not seen to be as strong as in the first case.
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    Proton-conducting membranes for the artificial leaf
    (2023) Bosson, Karell; Tovar, Günter E. M. (Prof.)
    With the aim of producing proton conducting membranes with improved proton conductivity and mechanical properties, the poly(pentafluorostyrene)-b-(butyl acrylate) (PPFS-b-PBuA) system was investigated. The study mainly focuses on the influence of the forming polymer nanostructures on the conductivity properties of the membranes. A series of well-defined PPFS-b-PBuA block copolymers (BCPs) were synthesized via nitroxide-mediated controlled radical polymerization (NMP). Spontaneous self-assembly of the BCP element was induced via a targeted change in polymer composition. Moreover, by adjusting the molar composition via enrichment of one of the blocks after synthesis, controlled self-assembly of the BCPs was realized. This was done by combining the corresponding homopolymer with the block copolymer to form a polymer blend - one of the blocks mixed to the BCP. Forming such polymer blends expanded the range of available techniques for tailoring the morphology for desired applications. Sulfonation of BCPs for the preparation of proton-conducting membranes was carried out by a para-fluoro thiol "click" reaction using sodium 3-mercapto-1-propanesulfonate (SMPS). The accessibility of fluorine in the para position of the phenylene group of PPFS provides countless opportunities for polymer functionalization by nucleophilic substitution. After modification of BCP, the self-assembly ability was retained, and higher conductivities were obtained compared to random copolymers. In addition, complementary studies were conducted on the use of printing techniques for membrane upscaling and evaluation of their life cycle.
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    Revealing the deposition mechanism of the powder aerosol deposition method using ceramic oxide core-shell particles
    (2023) Linz, Mario; Bühner, Florian; Paulus, Daniel; Hennerici, Lukas; Guo, Yiran; Mereacre, Valeriu; Mansfeld, Ulrich; Seipenbusch, Martin; Kita, Jaroslaw; Moos, Ralf
    The powder aerosol deposition (PAD) method is a process to manufacture ceramic films completely at room temperature. Since the first reports by Akedo in the late 1990s, much research has been conducted to reveal the exact mechanism of the deposition process. However, it is still not fully understood. This work tackles this challenge using core–shell particles. Two coated oxides, Al2O3 core with a SiO2 shell and LiNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2 core with a LiNbO3 shell, are investigated. Initially, the element ratios Al:Si and Ni:Nb of the powder are determined by energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy (EDX). In a second step, the change in the element ratios of Al:Si and Ni:Nb after deposition is investigated. The element ratios from powder to film strongly shift toward the shell elements, indicating that the particles fracture and only the outer parts of the particles are deposited. In the last step, this work investigates cross‐sections of the deposited films with scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM combined with EDX and an energy‐selective back‐scattered electron (EsB) detector to unveil the element distribution within the film itself. Therefore, the following overall picture emerges: particles impact on the substrate or on previously deposited particle, fracture, and only a small part of the impacting particles that originate from the outer part of the impacting particle gets deposited.
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    Synthesis and characterization of novel perfluoro aromatic side chain sulfonated PSU ionomers
    (2024) Martschin, Philipp; Atanasov, Vladimir; Thiele, Simon; Kerres, Jochen
    Polyethersulfone (PSU) as a commercially available polymer offers many different opportunities for functionalization for diverse fields of application, for example, electrophilic substitutions like sulfonation and bromination or nucleophilic reactions such as lithiation. This study presents three different polysulfone derivatives, first functionalized by a lithiation reaction, followed by a reaction with carbonyl compounds containing pentafluorophenyl groups. In the last step, the pentafluorophenyl moieties of the modified PSU were sulfonated by thiolation and subsequent oxidation to sulfonic acid groups. Those novel PSU derivatives were characterized by NMR, DSC, TGA, GPC, and titration. Based on these ionomers, we show the fabrication of pure and acid-base blend membranes with promising proton conductivities. These novel sulfonic acid groups containing materials are potentially promising candidates for membranes or ionomers in electrochemical applications such as proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWEs), or redox flow batteries (RFBs).
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    Prediction of electrolyte distribution in technical gas diffusion electrodes : from imaging to SPH simulations
    (2020) Kunz, P.; Paulisch, M.; Osenberg, M.; Bischof, B.; Manke, I.; Nieken, U.
    The performance of the gas diffusion electrode (GDE) is crucial for technical processes like chlorine-alkali electrolysis. The function of the GDE is to provide an intimate contact between gaseous reactants, the solid catalyst, and the liquid electrolyte. To accomplish this, the GDE is composed of wetting and non-wetting materials to avoid electrolyte breakthrough. Knowledge of the spatial distribution of the electrolyte in the porous structure is a prerequisite for further improvement of GDE. Therefore, the ability of the electrolyte to imbibe into the porous electrode is studied by direct numeric simulations in a reconstructed porous electrode. The information on the geometry, including the information on silver and PTFE distribution of the technical GDE, is extracted from FIB/SEM imaging including a segmentation into the different phases. Modeling of wetting phenomena inside the GDE is challenging, since surface tension and wetting of the electrolyte on silver and PTFE surfaces must be included in a physically consistent manner. Recently, wetting was modeled from first principles on the continuum scale by introducing a contact line force. Here, the newly developed contact line force model is employed to simulate two-phase flow in the solid microstructures using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. In this contribution, we present the complete workflow from imaging of the GDE to dynamic SPH simulations of the electrolyte intrusion process. The simulations are used to investigate the influence of addition of non-wetting PTFE as well as the application of external pressure differences between the electrolyte and the gas phase on the intrusion process.
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    Editorial - thermal systems modeling by using machine learning methods
    (2022) Maleki, Akbar; Alhuyi Nazari, Mohammad; Safdari Shadloo, Mostafa; Zhang, Weiping
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    Discontinuous powder aerosol deposition : an approach to prepare films using smallest powder quantities
    (2021) Linz, Mario; Exner, Jörg; Kita, Jaroslaw; Bühner, Florian; Seipenbusch, Martin; Moos, Ralf
    This work shows that the powder aerosol deposition (PAD) method allows the formation of films in powder quantities of less than 60 mg, rather than the large amounts that are typically required for conventional powder aerosol deposition systems. This was achieved by changing the operation mode to a discontinuous one, resulting in operation times of several seconds. Semiconducting strontium titanate ferrate SrTi0.65Fe0.35O3-δ (STF35) was used as the powder to prove the equal behavior in terms of adhesion, film quality and electric conductivity compared to conventional powder-aerosol-deposited films.
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    UV/VIS-spectroscopic inline measurement for the detection of fouling processes during the polymerization of N-vinylpyrrolidone
    (2023) Spoor, Erik; Welzel, Stefan; Nieken, Ulrich; Rädle, Matthias
    With the goal to better process the monitoring of occurring fouling, a backscatter probe was developed to perform in-line measurements in a half-shell reactor during the reaction of N-vinylpyrrolidone (NVP) to polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). The measurement technique detects the changes of bands in the UV range, which allows a direct correlation with the concentration. Thus, the measured absorbance signal allows a conclusion on the accumulation of fouling in the reactor and on changes in the conversion at the measurement location.