1 State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun 130022, China. hongjie@ciac.ac.cn.
A new type of 3D lanthanide(III) metal-organic framework directly constructed by double-chain motifs was synthesized. It shows a proton conductivity of 1.6 × 10(-5) S cm(-1) at 75 °C at 97% RH, and tunable emission including white light.