Reconfigurable electronics using conducting metal-organic frameworks

US9711743B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC · US

Inventors

• Mark D. Allendorf · Fremont, US
• Albert Alec Talin · Scottsdale, US
• François Léonard · Thurso, CA
• Vitalie Stavila · Oakland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 7, 2015
• Grant date: Jul 18, 2017
• Expiry date: Jan 27, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H10K10/484

Abstract

A device including a porous metal organic framework (MOF) disposed between two terminals, the device including a first state wherein the MOF is infiltrated by a guest species to form an electrical path between the terminals and a second state wherein the electrical conductivity of the MOF is less than the electrical conductivity in the first state. A method including switching a porous metal organic framework (MOF) between two terminals from a first state wherein a metal site in the MOF is infiltrated by a guest species that is capable of charge transfer to a second state wherein the MOF is less electrically conductive than in the first state.