Toray Industries, Inc.

Kenta Minamibayashi

Daisuke Izuhara

Daisuke Ogata

Tomoyuki Kunita

Yoshitsugu Funatsu

Shusuke Shirai

Yoko Sakiyama

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a composite electrolyte membrane which has excellent chemical resistance and can maintain sufficient mechanical strength even under conditions of high humidity and high pressure, which are the operating conditions for electrochemical hydrogen pumps and water electrolyzers. This composite electrolyte membrane, which is for achieving said purpose, has a composite layer obtained by combining a polyelectrolyte with a mesh woven material that satisfies (1) and (2) and comprises liquid crystal polyester fibers or polyphenylene sulfide fibers. (1): Mesh thickness (μm)/fiber diameter (μm)<2.0. (2): Opening (μm)/fiber diameter (μm)>1.0.

Composite electrolyte membrane

A composite electrolyte membrane having a composite layer that is a composite of a hydrocarbon polymer electrolyte and a fluorine-containing polymer porous substrate, wherein a fractal dimension D exhibiting the distribution of the hydrocarbon polymer electrolyte and the fluorine-containing polymer porous substrate in the composite layer is 1.7 or more. An object of the present invention is to enable a composite electrolyte membrane composed of a hydrocarbon polymer electrolyte and a fluorine-containing polymer porous substrate to achieve high proton conduction ability and high mechanical durability.

Composite electrolyte membrane, electrolyte membrane having catalyst layer attached thereto, membrane-electrode composite, solid polymer-type fuel cell, and method for producing composite electrolyte membrane

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Composite polymer electrolyte membrane, electrolyte membrane with catalyst layer, membrane-electrode assembly, and solid polymer fuel cell

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Multilayer electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly, water electrolysis-type hydrogen generator and method of producing multilayer electrolyte membrane

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