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

Claim 8:
9. 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 polymer 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 molecular chains so as to form a respective ion transport channel between the molecular chains,
wherein the metal-fibril complex comprises a plurality of second ions, each second ion being disposed within a respective one of the ion transport channels so as to be intercalated between the corresponding molecular chains, and
wherein the metal-fibril complex is a solid-state structure having a conductivity of at least 10−4 S/cm.