Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 13, Issue 25, Pages 29820-29826Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c06346
Keywords
synthesis; mechanochemistry; metal-organic frameworks; proton transport; adsorption
Funding
- National Science Centre (NCN, Poland) [2015/17/B/ST5/01190]
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Proton-conducting metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can achieve superprotonic conductivity through solvent-free mechanochemistry and anion coordination. The conductivity of CPO-27 materials can be controlled over several orders of magnitude by selecting metals and dosing ammonium thiocyanate mechanochemically.
Proton-conducting metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been gaining attention for their role as solid-state electrolytes in various devices for energy conversion and storage. Here, we present a convenient strategy for inducing and tuning of superprotonic conductivity in MOFs with open metal sites via postsynthetic incorporation of charge carriers enabled by solvent-free mechanochemistry and anion coordination. This scalable approach is demonstrated using a series of CPO-27/MOF-74 [M-2(dobdc); M = Mg2+, Zn-2+, Ni2+; dobdc = 2,5-dioxido-1,4-benzenedicarboxylate] materials loaded with various stoichiometric amounts of NH4SCN. The modified materials are not achievable by conventional immersion in solutions. Periodic density functional theory (DFT) calculations, supported by infrared (IR) spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction, provide structures of the modified MOFs including positions of inserted ions inside the [001] channels. Despite the same type and concentration of proton carriers, the MOFs can be arranged in the increasing order of conductivity (Ni < Zn < Mg), which strongly correlates with amounts of water vapor adsorbed. We conclude that the proton conductivity of CPO-27 materials can be controlled over a few orders of magnitude by metal selection and mechanochemical dosing of ammonium thiocyanate. The dosing of a solid is shown for the first time as a useful, simple, and ecological method for the control of material conductivity.
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