Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Short hydrogen-bond network confined on COF surfaces enables ultrahigh proton conductivity

  • Benbing Shi,
  • Xiao Pang,
  • Shunning Li,
  • Hong Wu,
  • Jianliang Shen,
  • Xiaoyao Wang,
  • Chunyang Fan,
  • Li Cao,
  • Tianhao Zhu,
  • Ming Qiu,
  • Zhuoyu Yin,
  • Yan Kong,
  • Yiqin Liu,
  • Mingzheng Zhang,
  • Yawei Liu,
  • Feng Pan,
  • Zhongyi Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33868-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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When hydronium ions are enriched in confined water, short hydrogen bonds (SHBs) form due to the constrained space of excess protons between pairs of water molecules. Here authors demonstrate a SHB network confined on the surface of ionic COF membranes with tunable -SO3H groups, with proton conductivity of 1389 mS cm-1 at 90 oC.