Proton Conducting Pathways in Metal-Organic Frameworks

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Recently metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been developed with high intrinsic proton conductivity and with potential for use in low temperature fuel cells. Their crystallinity potentially allows their proton conducting pathways to be probed using neutron diffraction; an understanding of which should greatly aid the creation of MOFs with better conductivity. We will study two frameworks, Fe(oxalate)(D2O)2 and Zn(D2PO4)2(1,2,4-triazole)2, which work in hydrous and anhydrous conditions, respectively. These are both highly conducting but also suitable model compounds for the first study examining the proton conducting pathways of MOFs with neutron diffraction. This experiment will be done using the high Q-space resolution of the Polaris diffractometer, enabling precise determination of the hydrogen positions in these materials and how they respond to changes in temperature and humidity.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.61787104
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/61787104
Provenance
Creator Dr Paul Saines; Mr Alistair Overy; Dr Matthew Tucker; Mr Peter Thygesen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-07-17T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-07-19T07:00:00Z