High proton conduction in an excellent water-stable gadolinium metal-organic framework

Xiu-Shuang Xing; Zhi-Hua Fu; Ning-Ning Zhang; Xiao-Qing Yu; Ming-Sheng Wang; Guo-Cong Guo

doi:10.1039/c8cc08700h

High proton conduction in an excellent water-stable gadolinium metal-organic framework

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jan 24;55(9):1241-1244. doi: 10.1039/c8cc08700h.

Authors

Xiu-Shuang Xing¹, Zhi-Hua Fu, Ning-Ning Zhang, Xiao-Qing Yu, Ming-Sheng Wang, Guo-Cong Guo

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. gcguo@fjirsm.ac.cn mswang@fjirsm.ac.cn zhihuafu@fjirsm.ac.cn.

PMID: 30632553
DOI: 10.1039/c8cc08700h

Abstract

A new metal-organic framework with excellent water stability, {H[(N(CH3)4)2][Gd3(NIPA)6]}·3H2O (1, H2NIPA = 5-nitroisophthalic acid), displays a proton conductivity of 7.17 × 10-2 S cm-1 (at 75 °C and 98% relative humidity), which is among the highest values for proton-conducting MOFs.