Several current topics are introduced in this review, with particular attention to highly proton-
conductive polymer thin films with organized structure and molecularly oriented structure …

Pursuing new proton-conducting materials has become a key issue to improve the
performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells for clean energy. As newly emerging …

The design, synthesis, and optimization of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer
(ESIPT)-associated dual-emissive aliphatic conductive polymer is one of the very …

Highly proton conductive polymers have long attracted the attention of researchers for use in
energy conversion, sensors, catalysts, and other applications. From the viewpoint of the …

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), which use hydrogen as fuel, present an
eco-friendly alternative to internal combustion engines (ICEs) for powering low-to-heavy …

Understanding the Nafion–Pt interface structure is important because fuel cell reactions
occur at the three-phase boundary. Infrared (IR) p-polarized multiple-angle incidence …

Polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) are frequently composed of perfluorosulfonic acid
polymers (PFSAs) and are used in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). However, PFSAs …

Polysiloxanes exhibit practical properties not observed in carbon or carbon–oxygen
backbone polymers. Linear ionic polysiloxanes containing an amine hydrochloric salt exhibit …

Typically, in polymer electrolyte-based electrochemical devices such as electrolyzers and
fuel cells, ionomers in the catalyst layers are present as ultrathin films coating the …

Fast proton conduction was achieved in organized lamellar structures with in-plane oriented
structure parallel to the substrate surface using a lyotropic liquid-crystalline (LC) property …