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.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.This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from the Royal Society of Chemistry at http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6mh00230g
