Conducting Polymers for Advanced Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Conducting polymers are today recognized as an important class of materials by both the academia and the industry owing to enabling the combination of the advantageous properties of conventional polymers (solubility, mechanical flexibility, low cost fabrication and processing, etc.) with conductivity levels that can compare well with those of semiconductors or even metals. Thanks to the possibility of fine-tuning the opto-electronic properties through controlling of doping levels and rational molecular design, an enormous number of applications can be envisaged and under diverse areas, from the biomedical (as actuators to artificial muscles, biosensors, etc.), to energy-related applications (as batteries, organic photovoltaic cells, photocatalysts for H2 production from water, and supercapacitors), to diverse devices for thin-film electronics (printed electronic devices, organic light-emitting diodes, sensors, organic field-effect transistors, electrochromic devices, etc.).
This Special Issue aims to report on progresses on the design and synthesis of conducting polymers, including semiconducting polymers, as well as advances on elucidating on polymer structure–properties, targeting, and/or demonstrating noteworthy advances in their most relevant applications. Both reviews and original research articles are welcome.

Dr. Ana Maria de Matos Charas
Guest Editor

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