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Showcasing research from the Group of Dr Sayaka Uchida

at the Department of Basic Science, The University of Tokyo,

Japan.

Proton conduction in alkali metal ion-exchanged porous

ionic crystals

This work reports that Li+ in an alkali metal-ion exchanged porous

ionic crystal forms a dense and extensive hydrogen-bonding

network of water molecules with mobile protons leading to a

high proton conductivity (> 10–3 S cm–1). The crystals do not

contain environmentally incompatible elements or functional

groups, and most importantly, this is the first comprehensive

work discussing the effect of alkali metal ions toward proton

conduction in porous crystals.

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See Sayaka Uchida et al.,Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.,2017, 19, 29077.

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