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SUBMITTER: Wang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7419536 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Hongmin H Diao Yifan Y Lu Yang Y Yang Haoru H Zhou Qingjun Q Chrulski Kenneth K D'Arcy Julio M JM
Nature communications 20200811 1
Fired brick is a universal building material, produced by thousand-year-old technology, that throughout history has seldom served any other purpose. Here, we develop a scalable, cost-effective and versatile chemical synthesis using a fired brick to control oxidative radical polymerization and deposition of a nanofibrillar coating of the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT). A fired brick's open microstructure, mechanical robustness and ~8 wt% α-Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> ...[more]