Three-dimensional protonic conductivity in porous organic cage solids

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Liu, Ming ^a   Chen, Linjiang ^a   Lewis, Scott ^a   Chong, Samantha Y ^a   Little, Marc A ^a   Hasell, Tom ^a   Aldous, Iain M ^a   Brown, Craig M ^b   Smith, Martin W ^c   Morrison, Carole A ^d   Hardwick, Laurence J ^a   Cooper, Andrew I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK; NANOCAGE; PROTON;

CHEMICAL BONDING; CONDUCTIVITY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FUEL CELL; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; POROUS MEDIUM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; HYDROGEN BOND; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POROSITY; PROTON TRANSPORT; SIMULATION;

EID: 84987842201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12750     Document Type: Article

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