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Nafion-threaded MOF laminar membrane with efficient and stable transfer channels towards highly enhanced proton conduction

Yan Wang1Hexiang Gao1Wenjia Wu1( )Zhuofan Zhou1Zhiwei Yang1Jingtao Wang1,2,3( )Yecheng Zou4
School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Henan Institute of Advanced Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450003, China
Engineering Research Center of Advanced Functional Material Manufacturing of Ministry of Education, School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
State Key Laboratory of Fluorinated Functional Membrane Materials, Shandong DongYue Polymer Material Co. Ltd, Zibo 256400, China
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Nafion chains are induced to thread into the pores of metal-organic framework (MOF) nanosheet, affording superior structural stability and rapid proton transfer for MOF laminar membrane.

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Porous laminar membranes hold great promise to realize ultrafast ion transfer if efficient and stable transfer channels are constructed in vertical direction. Here, metal-organic framework (MOF) nanosheets bearing imidazole molecules in the pores were designed as building blocks to assemble free-standing MOF laminar membrane. Then, Nafion chains were threaded into the pores induced by electrostatic attraction from imidazole molecules by slowly filtering dilute Nafion solution. We demonstrate that the threaded Nafion chains lock adjacent MOF nanosheets, affording highly enhanced structural stability to the resultant laminar membrane with almost no water swelling. Significantly, abundant acid-base pairs are formed in the pores along Nafion chains, working as efficient, continuous conduction pathways in vertical direction. Proton conductivities as high as 110 and 46 mS·cm–1 are obtained by this membrane under 100% and 40% relative humidity (RH), respectively, which are two orders of magnitude higher than that of pristine MOF membrane. The conductivity under low humidity (40% RH) is even over 2 times higher than that of commercial Nafion membrane, generating the maximum power density of 1,100 mW·cm–2 in hydrogen fuel cell (vs. 291 mW·cm–2 of Nafion membrane). Besides, the influence of water state on proton transfer in confined space is investigated in detail.

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Wang Y, Gao H, Wu W, et al. Nafion-threaded MOF laminar membrane with efficient and stable transfer channels towards highly enhanced proton conduction. Nano Research, 2022, 15(4): 3195-3203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3925-7
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Received: 04 August 2021
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Published: 20 October 2021
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