A cool way to form 2-D conducting polymers using ice

摘要

Chemists at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, have discovered an innovative method to form two-dimensional poly-aniline (PANI) nanosheets using ice as a hard template. The product, called PANI-ICE, is reported to have distinctly outstanding electrical properties of low resistivity and high conductivity. PANI-ICE nanosheets show high electronic current flows twice as high as that of graphene, widely known as a next generation dream material, and over 40 times higher conductivity of PANI materials produced by existing established synthetic procedures.