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Syntheses and proton conductivity of mesoporous Nd2O3–SiO2 and NdOCl–SiO2 composites

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Two mesoporous oxide composites of Nd2O3–SiO2 and NdOCl–SiO2 were synthesized using SBA-15 as a template and neodymium nitrate or neodymium chloride as a precursor. The porous Nd2O3–SiO2 with a SBA-15-like structure has amorphous walls and the porous NdOCl–SiO2 with a replicated structure of SBA-15 has crystalline walls. These porous materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and nitrogen adsorption/desorption. They exhibited significant proton conductivities in the presence of moisture at low temperatures and the highest conductivity observed was 4.55 × 10−4 S/cm at 47 °C in wet air (RH = 28.6%).

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The Project Sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry. J.T.S.I. thanks EPSRC for Platform and Senior Fellowship support.

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  1. College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, 19 Xinjiekou Wai Street, Beijing, 100875, People’s Republic of China

    Wenbo Yue

  2. School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST, UK

    Xiaoxiang Xu, Zixue Su, John T. S. Irvine & Wuzong Zhou

  3. State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, People’s Republic of China

    Yongcun Zou & Yunling Liu

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Yue, W., Xu, X., Su, Z. et al. Syntheses and proton conductivity of mesoporous Nd2O3–SiO2 and NdOCl–SiO2 composites. J Mater Sci 47, 2146–2154 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-011-6015-5

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