Abstract: A composite membrane including an ion exchange polymer and a support of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene polymer having a porous microstructure of polymeric fibrils, said expanded polytetrafluoroethylene polymer being at least about 85% crystalline.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 30, 1998
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2000
Assignees:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Donaldson & Co.
Inventors:
Jeffrey E. Spethmann, James Thomas Keating