Conductive and Functional Polymers: New Advances and Perspectives in Sensor Technology
A special issue of Electrochem (ISSN 2673-3293).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 435
Special Issue Editors
Interests: conductive and functionalized polymers; sensors; hybrid conductive materials; optical materials; e-skin; soft robotics
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Dear Colleagues,
An increasing amount of interest in the development and operation of analytical devices for the detection, quantification, and monitoring of specific analytes has led to the appearance of sensors and biosensors. These devices are successfully gaining a growing number of recipients in the field of medical diagnostics, environmental protection, and food safety thanks to their high sensitivity, specificity, and ability to analyze in real-time. Conductive polymers (CPs) have been met with great interest since the properties of conjugated polyacetylene polymer were defined in 1977. Due to their diversity resulting from their chemical and physical properties, they can be used in various fields. Over the past two decades, polymeric materials that can be physically or chemically modified, e.g., by changing pH, introducing appropriate functional groups, or modifying biologically active molecules, have been of great interest to scientists. Recent progresses in the controlled synthesis of these polymeric materials allow the rational design and preparation of new chemical and biological sensor systems. Such compounds are very often used not only for manufacturing the biosensor tools or lab-on-chip, but also because of their chemical and physical modification, thanks to which polymer-based matrices are capable of binding biologically active molecules, which is a crucial step in biosensor construction.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the fundamental research and latest advancement in the synthesis, fabrication, characterization, properties, and foresights of functional and conductive polymers for their application in the fabrication of sensors and their integration in soft robotics.
Dr. Sajjad Husain Mir
Prof. Dr. Sameer Hussain
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- synthesis of functional and conductive polymers
- polymers for electrode modification in biosensors
- polymers for flexible optical sensors
- polymers for chemical sensors and biosensors
- polymers for 3D printing of sensor devices
- semiconducting polymers for sensor applications
