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Novel semiconducting iron–quinizarin metal–organic framework for application in supercapacitors*

Agrawal S., Clarke S.M., Vitorica-Yrezabal I.J. et al. · Molecular Physics · 2019 · 3424-3433

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Application RelevanceSupport assessment: Medium

FeQ is suggested as a possible supercapacitor electrode material because it combines measurable conductivity with accessible crystallographic channels and modest BET surface area.

Caveat: No electrochemical supercapacitor device, capacitance, cycling, or electrode performance measurement is reported in this paper.

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CaveatSupport assessment: High

A remaining application challenge is preparing deposited FeQ layers on suitable substrates for ideal supercapacitor electrodes.

Caveat: This is an author-stated limitation, not a measured result.

p010 · 5. Conclusions

CaveatSupport assessment: Medium

The measured N2 BET surface area is much lower than expected from the crystal structure, possibly due to gas-adsorption selectivity and lower N2 uptake.

Caveat: The selectivity explanation is proposed by the authors and not directly tested here.

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Phase AssignmentSupport assessment: High

FeQ is a newly synthesised iron-quinizarin MOF with semiconducting transport in a pressed pellet.

Caveat: Crystallographic refinement quality is low, but the authors support the framework assignment with single-crystal diffraction and FT-IR evidence.

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Transport MechanismSupport assessment: Medium

The authors propose that electronic conduction occurs through pi-pi interactions / pi-conjugation of quinizarin ligand moieties, probably anisotropically along pi-stacked chains.

Caveat: The paper uses expected/probably/seems language; no single-crystal anisotropic conductivity measurement was performed.

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Material identities

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MaterialCompositionStructure contextSource
FeQ (iron-quinizarin metal-organic framework)Main text: Fe(C14H6O4).H2O; CIF/checkCIF: C21H9FeO6 with solvent-accessible void electron densityiron centres; precursor iron(II) acetate; checkCIF reports tentative Fe(III) bond valency · quinizarin / 1,4-dihydroxyanthraquinone3D · PristineSingle-crystal XRD: monoclinic P21/c framework with octahedral Fe coordination, pi-stacked quinizarin phenyl groups and elliptical channels.p002 · Abstract

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activated FeQ material for BETresearch_0435__mat__feqPowder · Target Sample · Pristine Frameworksolvent exchange followed by heating in vacuo; activation solvent, temperature and time not specifiedp008 · 4. Results
as-synthesised FeQ black precipitate / powder with small crystalsresearch_0435__mat__feqPowder · Target Sample · Pristine Frameworksolvothermal product; filtered under vacuum and washed with hot ethanol and acetonep007 · 3. FeQ synthesis
pressed pellet of FeQ for four-contact conductivityresearch_0435__mat__feqPellet · Target Sample · Pristine Frameworkfinely powdered/compressed FeQ pellet contacted with four gold wires using silver-doped epoxy paintDynaCool resistivity puck contacts; no MOF-growth substratep007 · 2.3. Characterisation of materials
FeQ single crystal for X-ray diffractionresearch_0435__mat__feqSingle Crystal · Target Sample · Pristine Frameworksmall approximately 10 micrometre crystals from solvothermal synthesis0.01 x 0.01 x 0.01 mm in Table S1/CIFp001-p002 · Single Crystal X-ray diffraction of FeQ / Table S1 · Table S1