Abstract:The poor conductivity of metal-organic framework material CuBDC (BDC=1,4-terephthalic acid) limits its application. To expand the performance and application scope of CuBDC, herein, CuBDC was used as Pickering stabilizer to build C/W high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs). Then, through the polymerization of pyrrole (Py) in the phase, a copper metal- organic framework/polypyrrole (CuBDC/PPy HIPE) conductive composite with porous structure was obtained via depressure. Its structure was characterized by FT-IR, XRD, SEM, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), and nitrogen adsorption-desorption. Besides, the conductivity of the composite was determined by a four- probe instrument, and the gas- sensitive responsiveness of the composite was preliminarily studied by recording the resistance change of the composite in different gas environments. The results show that the conductivity of the CuBDC/PPy HIPE composite is 0.12 S/m, and it shows gas sensitivity to a variety of gases, and the composite shows strong gas responsiveness to hydrogen chloride gas and ammonia gas, with a responsivity of 79 and 40, respectively.