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Functional conductive nanomaterials via polymerisation in nano-channels: PEDOT in a MOF.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Farajollahi, Meisam 
Henke, Sebastian 
Bajpe, Sneha R 

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.

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0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry

Journal Title

Mater Horiz

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Journal ISSN

2051-6347
2051-6355

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Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Sponsorship
EPSRC (1566990)
European Research Council (280078)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L015889/1)
The project is funded through the European Research Council (ERC) grant (grant number: EMATTER 280078). AKC thanks the Ras Al Khaimah Center for Advanced Materials (RAK-CAM). JDWM and MF acknowledge funding through a Discovery Grant from The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). TW thanks the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for funding and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications (grant number: EP/L015889/1) for support. SH acknowledges the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for funding. SS is funded through a scholarship from the Cambridge Overseas Trust. JSB thanks the Isaac Newton Trust for financial support for the FEI Tecnait TEM. The authors would also like to show the gratitude to Phenom-World for the use of the Phenom Pro X SEM and Dr Suman-Lata Sahonta for the help with Raman spectroscopy.