Abstract
Reactions inside the pores of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer potential for controlling polymer structures with regularity to sub-nanometre scales. We report a wet-chemistry route to poly-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT)-MOF composites. After a two-step removal of the MOF template we obtain unique and stable macroscale structures of this conductive polymer with some nanoscale regularity.
Highlights
Tiesheng Wang,ab Meisam Farajollahi,c Sebastian Henke,d Tongtong Zhu,a Sneha R
We demonstrate for the first time the synthesis of PEDOT in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)’s nano-channels, the resulting PEDOT–MOF composite, and removing the MOF template to yield macroscopic structures of nano-templated PEDOT
The constant shape retention upon successive material replacements indicates that our synthesis for conducting polymers works, similar to the results reported by Uemura et al.[39] for a MOF–polystyrene system via free radical polymerisation
Summary
Horiz., 2017, 4, 64 Received 4th July 2016, Accepted 22nd August 2016. Functional conductive nanomaterials via polymerisation in nano-channels: PEDOT in a MOF†. Tiesheng Wang,ab Meisam Farajollahi,c Sebastian Henke,d Tongtong Zhu,a Sneha R. Reactions inside the pores of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) offer potential for controlling polymer structures with regularity to sub-nanometre scales. We report a wet-chemistry route to poly3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT)–MOF composites. After a twostep removal of the MOF template we obtain unique and stable macroscale structures of this conductive polymer with some nanoscale regularity
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