Highly discriminating, high throughput proton-exchange membrane for fuel-cell applications

摘要

Highly discriminating, inexpensive proton-exchange membranes that allow for relatively high flux of protons across the membrane. In one embodiment, an artificial lipid-bilayer membrane is created to include biological hydrogen-ion transport channels. The biological hydrogen-ion transport channels may alternatively be intact hydrogen-ion transport proteins, synthetic hydrogen-ion channel cores from hydrogen-ion transport proteins, or additional types of hydrogen-ion transport molecules that stably reside within a lipid-bilayer membrane.