The invention relates to the structures of proton exchange membranes with
different molecular permeabilities, especially to the proton exchange
membranes suitable for the applications in Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
(DMFC) and with the function of recovering water from the cathode. The
polymeric structures are the designs of phase separated structures of the
crystalline phase and the amorphous phases, thereby limiting the swelling
of the materials and the space of ionic cluster structures in nano-scale
to reduce the permeability of methanol fuels On the other hand, by
controlling of polymeric grafting reactions result in the reverse (from
the cathode to the anode) permeability of the product water molecules on
the cathode in the proton exchange materials greater than the
permeability of methanol molecules in the fuels (from the anode to the
cathode) due to the differences of fuel concentrations between the
cathode and the anode of DMFC. Hence, it has the function of recovering
water of the cathode and does not have the over-permeable phenomena as
seen in methanol molecule.