Ionic Conductivity in the Metal-Organic Framework UiO-66 by Dehydration and Insertion of Lithium tert-Butoxide
Ionic Conductivity in the Metal-Organic Framework UiO-66 by Dehydration and Insertion of Lithium tert-Butoxide
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DOI:
10.1002/chem.201300326
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发表时间:
2013-04-01
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4.3
通讯作者:
Long, Jeffrey R.
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作者:
Ameloot, Rob;Aubrey, Michael;Long, Jeffrey R.
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of microporous materials consisting of metal ion nodes linked together by multitopic organic ligands. These compounds have been studied extensively in recent years for their record high surface areas and a wide range of related potential applications. Most research in this context has been devoted to gas storage and separations,[1] with the number of reports on liquid-phase separations, catalysis, sensing, and biomedical applications increasing rapidly.[2] A key advantage that MOFs bring to such applications is the possibility of introducing complex chemical surface functionality, thereby imparting intended chemical and physical properties to the materials. Indeed, the presence of organic linkers in MOFs offers an important difference with most other porous crystalline solids, and this has sparked the rapid development of a collection of synthetic strategies aimed at introducing functional groups at these positions.[3] The metal cations present in the MOF crystal lattice are organized in well-defined inorganic structural motifs, commonly referred to as secondary building units (SBUs), which often occur as one-dimensional chains or zero-dimensional clusters.[4] Although these inorganic substructures can exhibit a high density of functional groups, such as bridging OH groups, and the substructures contribute significantly to the adsorption properties of the material,[5] surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the post-synthetic functionalization of the inorganic units within MOFs. The few reports that exist on functionalization of the OH groups found within a number of important MOF structures exclusively discuss approaches in which reactants are immobilized upon exchange of the OH proton.[6] In this work, we show how a novel two-step procedure involving dehydration of inorganic clusters followed by lithium alkoxide grafting leads to superior solid ionic conductors as compared to materials prepared by direct deprotonation. The resulting solid electrolytes are potentially useful for enhancing the operation of next-generation lithium batteries. The framework of UiO-66 (Zr6O4 (OH) 4ACHTUNGTRENNUNG (bdc) 6; bdc2À= 1, 4-benzenedicarboxylate) is constructed of Zr6O4 (OH) 4-ACHTUNGTRENNUNG (O2CR) 12 clusters in which the μ3-O and μ3-OH ligands originate from water present during the synthesis and the carboxylate groups are part of the bdc2À ligands linking the clusters together (Figure 1).[7] The remarkable thermal and chemical stability of this Zr4+-based MOF material led to significant efforts to synthesize functionalized variants of the UiO-66 framework. Successful strategies that have been [a] Dr. R. Ameloot, M. Aubrey, BM Wiers, Dr. AP Gómora-Figueroa, Prof. JR Long