Abstract
Solid-state protonics is a new reseach field attracting much current attention. One of the most urgent subjects in this field is to create a novel proton conductor, from the viewpoint of developing new energy and energy conservation technologies, including photovoltaic, hydrogen storage and fuel cell technologies. In this work, we report on a proton-conductive organic-inorganic hybrid system, which is a coordination polymer. Such a metal-dimer system with multi-redox property has a large potentiality for the creation of new-functional and high-performance materials in metal-complex solids. New highly proton-conductive coordination materials, conductive mixed-valent nanotube-MOF and highly-concentrated hydrogen-storage nano-materials are presented.
