Navel protonic conductive silicates produced by the sol-gel method

Materials which display ionic conductivity were produced by the sol-gel and microemulsion-gel methods. The charging and discharging characteristics we re investigated and it was found that a single ionic species was responsibl e for the conduction, the ionic species being residual protons from the ini tial component mixture. The complex impedence of various samples was measur ed and the ionic conductivities ranged in value from 9 X 10(-8) to 1 X 10(- 5) ohm(-1)cm(-1). An Arrhemius plot for a microemulsion-gel revealed that t he energy of activation was 0.15 eV.