PROTON TRANSPORT MATERIAL AND RAW MATERIALS TO MANUFACTURE THE SAME; ION EXCHANGER, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY AND FUEL CELL THAT USE THE PROTON TRANSPORT MATERIAL

摘要

There are provided: a proton transporting material that improves mechanical characteristics of a sulfonated liquid crystalline polymer material, can be kept as a membrane even though it is made a solid state while maintaining a molecular arrangement of a liquid crystalline state, and is suitable for electrolyte membranes of fuel cells etc.; an ion exchange membrane, a membrane electrolyte assembly (MEA), and a fuel cell that use the proton transporting material; a starting material for the proton transporting material. The proton transporting material has a molecular structure produced by crosslinking the sulfonated liquid crystalline polymer material with a crosslinking agent having two or more functional groups in sites except that of the sulfonic acid group.