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Covalent organic frameworks

Crossing the channel

Nature Chemistry volume 6, pages 564–566 (2014)Cite this article

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The ordered one-dimensional nanochannels found in covalent organic frameworks (COFs) could render them able to conduct protons. However, the frameworks' instability in acid has thus far precluded any practical implementations. Now, a strategy to overcome this instability has enabled proton conduction using a COF for the first time.

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Figure 1: The structure and proton-conducting mechanism of Tp-Azo COF.

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  1. Hong Xu and Donglin Jiang are in the Department of Materials Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan,

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Xu, H., Jiang, D. Crossing the channel. Nature Chem 6, 564–566 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1984

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