Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: A schematic of the screw-driven stainless-steel stretching fixture and the two-point conductivity cell. The whole apparatus was put into deionized water to measure the proton conductivity of the stretched sample at specific strains and temperatures.

Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: A schematic of the setup for measuring the stress relaxations of N117-H and BPSH35 samples immersed in deionized water

Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: The proton conductivity of a N117-H film measured before, immediately after stretching to 7.5% strain and after 1h45min relaxation at 30°C, 50°C, and 70°C

Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: The sketching of Nafion under low and high strains based upon the elongated polymer aggregates model by Rubatat, Heijden, Gebel and Diat (permission of reproduction from ACS publications)

Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: A schematic of the proposed bundle-cluster model for PEMs. The boundaries of hydrophobic bundles define the pathway of proton conduction

Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: Relaxation of proton conductivity and stress of N117-H film at 25% strain, 30°C (SR denotes stress relaxation)

Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: Relaxation of proton conductivity and stress of BPSH35 film at 7.5% strain, 30°C

Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: A comparisons between relaxations of proton conductivities of N117-H films at 25% and 50% strain, 30°C

Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: Temperature hysteresis of proton conductivity of N1135-H film

Date of download: 11/5/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Relaxation of Proton Conductivity and Stress in Proton Exchange Membranes Under Strain J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2006;128(4):503-508. doi:10.1115/1.2345441 Figure Legend: Temperature hysteresis of proton conductivity of NE1035-H film