2H nuclear magnetic resonance study of deuterated water dynamics in perfluorosulfonic acid ionomer Nafion

Jun Hee Han, Kyu Won Lee, Cheol Eui Lee

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Abstract

We have employed deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in order to study the dynamics of the deuterated water (D2O) molecules introduced into a perfluorosulfonic acid ionomer Nafion (NR-211) film. According to the 2H NMR spectral analysis, the deuterated water molecules at low temperatures occupied either relatively rigid or mobile sites up to the temperature TM=240 K where all the deuterated water molecules became mobile. The temperature-dependent NMR linewidths sensitively reflected the motional narrowing of the rigid and mobile sites, and the NMR chemical shift reflected significant changes in the hydrogen bonds of the deuterated water. While a slow- to fast-limit motional transition was manifested at TM in the laboratory-frame NMR spin–lattice relaxation, the rotating-frame spin–lattice relaxation indicated no bulk liquid water state down to 200 K.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)280-282
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Volume98
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 Nov 1

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (Project no. 2013057555 , 2016R1D1A1A09917003, and NRF-2010-0027963 ). Measurements at the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) are acknowledged.

Keywords

  • Lattice dynamics
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
  • Polymers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Chemistry(all)
  • Materials Science(all)
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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