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Jo YM, Kim DH, Wang J, Oppenheim JJ, Dincă M. Humidity-Mediated Dual Ionic-Electronic Conductivity Enables High Sensitivity in MOF Chemiresistors. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:20213-20220. [PMID: 38985955 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c05343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/12/2024]
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In the presence of water, the electrically conductive metal-organic framework (MOF) Cu3HHTT2 (H6HHTT = 2,3,7,8,12,13-hexahydroxy-4b1,5,10,15-tetraazanaphtho[1,2,3-gh]tetraphene) provides a conduit for proton transport, thereby becoming a dual ionic-electronic conductor. Owing to its dual conducting nature and its high density of imine and open metal sites, the MOF operates as a particularly sensitive chemiresistor, whose sensing mechanism changes with relative humidity. Thus, the interaction of NH3 gas with the MOF under low humidity promotes proton transport, which translates to high sensitivity for ammonia detection. Conversely, NO2 gas hinders proton conductivity, even under high relative humidity conditions, leading to large resistance variations in the humid regime. This dual ionic-electronic conduction-based gas sensor provides superior sensitivity compared to other conventional chemiresistors under similar conditions and highlights its potential as a platform for room-temperature gas sensors.
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- Young-Moo Jo
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Wei XH, Wu ZP, Peng A, Zhang XA, Merlitz H, Forest MG, Wu CX, Cao XZ. Depletion Strategies for Crystallized Layers of Two-Dimensional Nanosheets to Enhance Lithium-Ion Conductivity in Polymer Nanocomposites. ACS Macro Lett 2024; 13:453-460. [PMID: 38552169 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
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The assembly of long-range aligned structures of two-dimensional nanosheets (2DNSs) in polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) is in urgent need for the design of nanoelectronics and lightweight energy-storage materials of high conductivity for electricity or heat. These 2DNS are thin and exhibit thermal fluctuations, leading to an intricate interplay with polymers in which entropic effects can be exploited to facilitate a range of different assemblies. In molecular dynamics simulations of experimentally studied 2DNSs, we show that the layer-forming crystallization of 2DNSs is programmable by regulating the strengths and ranges of polymer-induced entropic depletion attractions between pairs of 2DNSs, as well as between single 2DNSs and a substrate surface, by exclusively tuning the temperature and size of the 2DNS. Enhancing the temperature supports the 2DNS-substrate depletion rather than crystallization of 2DNSs in the bulk, leading to crystallized layers of 2DNSs on the substrate surfaces. On the other hand, the interaction range of the 2DNS-2DNS depletion attraction extends further than the 2DNS-substrate attraction whenever the 2DNS size is well above the correlation length of the polymers, which results in a nonmonotonic dependence of the crystallization layer on the 2DNS size. It is demonstrated that the depletion-tuned crystallization layers of 2DNSs contribute to a conductive channel in which individual lithium ions (Li ions) migrate efficiently through the PNCs. This work provides statistical and dynamical insights into the balance between the 2DNS-2DNS and 2DNS-substrate depletion interactions in polymer-2DNS composites and highlights the possibilities to exploit depletion strategies in order to engineer crystallization processes of 2DNSs and thus to control electrical conductivity.
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- Xiao-Han Wei
- Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Departments of Mathematics, Applied Physical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3250, United States
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- Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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Zhang HJ, Shang XB, Wang XR, Zhang CX, Wang QL. Anchoring of Fe-MIL-101-NH 2 to the Polymer Membrane Matrix through the Hinsberg Reaction to Promote Conductivity of SPEEK Membranes. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:3499-3507. [PMID: 38546038 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c00185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2024]
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SCPEEK@MOF proton exchange membranes, where SCPEEK is sulfinyl chloride polyether ether ketone and MOF is a metal-organic framework, were prepared by doping Fe-MIL-101-NH2 into polymers. The amino group in the MOF and the -SOCl2 group in thionyl chloride polyether ether ketone cross-link to form a covalent bond through the Hinsberg reaction, and the prepared composite membrane has stronger stability than other electrostatic interactions and simple physical doping composite membranes. The formation of covalent bonds improves the water absorption of the composite membrane, which makes it easy for water molecules to form hydrogen bonds. Moreover, SPEEK as a proton conductive polymer and the synergy of MOFs improve the proton conductivity of composite membranes. The composite membranes were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy. The swelling rate, water absorption, mechanical stability, ion exchange capacity, and proton conductivity of the pure sulfonated polyether ether ketone (SPEEK) membrane were compared with those of the mechanically doped SPEEK/MOF membrane and the composite membrane SCPEEK@MOF doped with different ratios of Fe-MIL-101-NH2, and all of the SCPEEK@MOF showed superior performance. When the Fe-MIL-101-NH2 loading rate of the composite membrane is 2%, the proton conductivity of the composite membrane can reach 0.202 S cm-1 at 363 K and a 98% relative humidity, which is much higher than that of the SPEEK/MOF membrane obtained by simple physical doping under the same conditions.
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- Hong-Jie Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Brine Chemical Engineering and Resource Eco-utilization, College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Brine Chemical Engineering and Resource Eco-utilization, College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Brine Chemical Engineering and Resource Eco-utilization, College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Brine Chemical Engineering and Resource Eco-utilization, College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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Sun Y, Zou Y, Li H, Chen W, Ma P, Niu J, Wang J. Controlled Assembly of a Dawson-like Antimoniotungstate-Supported Trefoil-type Trimer with Good Proton Conductivity Performance. Inorg Chem 2024; 63:2363-2369. [PMID: 38266165 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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With the excellent properties of POM in the field of proton conductivity, the preparation of POM-based proton-conductive materials has burst into life. Herein, an unprecedented Sb-templated all-inorganic trimer Na8H18.64[(SbW14O52)3(Sb2W6.12Ru5.88O18)]·85H2O (1), which is based on tetravacant Dawson-like [SbW14O52]17- blocks and exhibits a trefoil type with D3 symmetry, has been successfully designed and synthesized by the assembly of simple materials with a one-pot hydrothermal method under acidic conditions. Also, compound 1 is systematically characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, PXRD, ESI-MS, IR spectroscopy, UV-vis, elemental analysis, and TGA. Crystal structure data analysis demonstrates that compound 1 is constructed by a hexagonal prismatic heterometallic {Sb2W6.12Ru5.88O18} core and three equivalent {SbW14} units bridged through μ2-O atoms in periphery. Subsequently, further property experiments show that compound 1 exhibits high proton conductivity with a conductivity value (σ) of 3.07 × 10-2 S cm-1 at 75 °C and 80% relative humidity (RH). The activation energy of compound 1 evaluated by the Arrhenius plots is 0.22 eV, which indicates that the Grotthuss mechanism is dominant during the process of proton transfer.
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- Yahao Sun
- Henan Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, P. R. China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, P. R. China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, P. R. China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, P. R. China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, P. R. China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, P. R. China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, P. R. China
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