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The application of solid-state NMR methods to characterize the structure and dynamics of imidazole-based proton-conducting polymeric materials provides insight into the mechanism (Grotthus vs vehicle) of proton-mobility. The presented materials are built on a siloxane backbone, and are of interest as potential new proton-conducting membranes for fuel cells able to function at temperatures above 130 °C. This is expected to improve the CO tolerance of the catalyst in the fuel cell, as compared to water-based systems. High-resolution solid-state ¹H NMR is achieved under fast magic-angle spinning (MAS) conditions (30 kHz), and provides resolution of resonances in the hydrogen-bonding region. Homonuclear double quantum filtered (DQF) NMR spectra, acquired using the back-to-back sequence, provided identification of mobile protons. It was found that proton conductivity, observed macroscopically using …