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Nanoscale Adv
; 4(13): 2922-2928, 2022 Jun 28.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36132008
ABSTRACT
Porous organic polymers (POPs) have been prepared via a novel metal free polycondensation between a tritopic indole-based monomer and squaric, croconic and rhodizonic acids. Each of the three POPs exhibited high BET surface areas (331-667 m2 g-1) and zwitterionic structures. Impedance measurements revealed that the intrinsic POPs were relatively weak proton conductors, with a positive correlation between the density of oxo-groups and the proton conduction. Doping the materials with LiCl vastly improved the proton conductivity up to a value of 0.54 S cm-1 at 90 °C and 90% relative humidity.