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Dalton Trans. 2016 May 04;45(18):7893-9. doi: 10.1039/c6dt00290k.

Three orders of magnitude enhancement of proton conductivity of porous coordination polymers by incorporating ion-pairs into a framework.

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

Ya-Wen You, Chen Xue, Zheng-Fang Tian, Shao-Xian Liu, Xiao-Ming Ren

Affiliations

  1. State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, P. R. China. [email protected] and College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, P. R. China.
  2. Hubei Key Laboratory for Processing and Application of Catalytic Materials, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang 438000, P. R. China.
  3. State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, P. R. China. [email protected] and College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, P. R. China and Coordination Chemistry Institute & State Key Laboratory, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China.

PMID: 27067243 DOI: 10.1039/c6dt00290k

Abstract

A clathrate NH4Br@HKUST-1 has been prepared by means of soaking the metal-organic-framework, HKUST-1, in ammonium bromide saturated ethanol solution at ambient temperature. Both NH4Br@HKUST-1 and HKUST-1 show the same framework structure. The formula of the clathrate is approximately expressed as Cu3(BTC)2(NH4Br)1.15. The thermal stability of the metal-organic framework is not affected by incorporating ammonium bromide into its pores. The impedance spectra measurements were performed for both NH4Br@HKUST-1 and HKUST-1 in anhydrous and selected relative humidity environments, disclosing that the conductivity of NH4Br@HKUST-1 is enhanced by three/four orders of magnitude under the same conditions with respect to HKUST-1. This study provided an efficient strategy to achieve new high conductivity proton transport materials.

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