Patent ID: 11901505
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  C | IPC C  H

Claim 0:
1. An ion-conducting structure, comprising:
a metal-fibril complex formed by one or more elementary nanofibrils, each elementary nanofibril being composed of a plurality of cellulose molecular chains with functional groups, each elementary nanofibril having a plurality of metal ions, each metal ion acting as a coordination center between the functional groups of adjacent cellulose molecular chains so as to form a respective ion transport channel between the cellulose molecular chains,
wherein the metal-fibril complex comprises a plurality of second ions, each second ion being disposed within one of the ion transport channels so as to be intercalated between the corresponding cellulose molecular chains, and
wherein the metal-fibril complex is a solid-state structure having a conductivity of at least 104 S/cm.