Electrolyte material, liquid composition and membrane/electrode assembly for polymer electrolyte fuel cell

Abstract

It is to provide an electrolyte material with which an increase in the water content can be suppressed even when the ion exchange capacity of a polymer having repeating units based on a monomer having a dioxolane ring is high; and a membrane/electrode assembly excellent in the power generation characteristics under low or no humidity conditions and under high humidity conditions. It is to use an electrolyte material, which comprises a polymer (H) having ion exchange groups converted from precursor groups in a polymer (F), and having an ion exchange capacity of at least 1.35 meq/g dry resin, the polymer (F) having repeating units (A) based on a perfluoromonomer having a precursor group of an ion exchange group and a dioxolane ring and repeating units (B) based on a perfluoromonomer having no precursor group and having a dioxolane ring, and having a TQ of at least 200° C., which is a temperature at which the melt volume rate becomes 100 mm3/sec when the polymer (F) is subjected to melt-extrusion under an extrusion pressure condition of 2.94 MPa from a nozzle having a length of 1 mm and an inner diameter of 1 mm.

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