Room-Temperature Quantitative Quantum Sensing of Lithium Ions with a Radical-Embedded Metal-Organic Framework

• Recent advancements in quantum sensing have sparked transformative detection technologies with high sensitivity, precision, and spatial resolution. Owing to their atomic-level tunability, molecular qubits and ensembles thereof are promising candidates for sensing chemical analytes. Here, we show quantum sensing of lithium ions in solution at room temperature with an ensemble of organic radicals integrated in a microporous metal-organic framework (MOF). The organic radicals exhibit electron spin coherence and microwave addressability at room temperature, thus behaving as qubits. The high surface area of the MOF promotes accessibility of the guest analytes to the organic qubits, enabling unambiguous identification of lithium ions and quantitative measurement of their concentration through relaxometric and hyperfine spectroscopic methods based on electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. The sensing principle presented in this work is applicable to other metal ions with nonzero nuclear spin.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi -- Fysikalisk kemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences -- Physical Chemistry (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Electron spin resonance spectroscopy

Lithium

Magnetic moments

Metal ions

Metal-Organic Frameworks

Paramagnetic resonance

Qubits

Room temperature

Spectroscopic analysis

Spin dynamics

Analytes

Atomic levels

Detection technology

Embedded metals

High sensitivity

Lithium ions

Metalorganic frameworks (MOFs)

Organic radicals

Spatial resolution

Tunabilities

Electrospinning

lithium ion

metal organic framework

adsorption

Article

chemical structure

concentration (parameter)

electron spin resonance

reaction analysis

surface area

synthesis

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