Effect of the scaling-up the reactions synthesis of the poly(styrene-co-acrylic acid) polyelectrolyte at laboratory level

Sulfonated styrene-acrylic acid copolymers have been used as an alternative polyelectrolyte membrane for applications in fuel cells. In this work, the raw copolymer has been prepared by a well studied solution copolymerization reaction method, but at two different capacity reactor conditions: 100 mL and 3 L. The main idea was to scale up the copolymer production for having enough material for future sulfonation reactions. The reaction conditions...