Themed collection Conducting polymers

Conducting polymers are extensively studied due to their outstanding properties, including tunable electrical property, optical and high mechanical properties, easy synthesis and effortless fabrication and high environmental stability over conventional inorganic materials.

Scientists have categorized conductive polymers as materials having strongly reversible redox behavior and uncommon combined features of plastics and metal.

The review describes the relationship between the properties of functionalized polyanilines depending on the nature of the substituents at the aromatic ring.

Conducting polymers are promising materials for organic–inorganic composites in lithium-ion batteries due to electrical conductivity and high coulombic efficiency, and are able to be cycled hundreds or thousands of times with only small degradation.

This paper provides a review of the recent advances made in the field of electroactive polymers and composites for biomedical applications.

This review article on conducting polymers discusses the background & theory behind their conductivity, the methods to nano-engineer special morphologies & recent contributions to the field of energy (e.g. supercapacitors, batteries and fuel cells).

This review provides a comprehensive assessment of recent progress in polypyrrole derivatives which are specially designed for electrochromic applications.

Various PANI nanostructures and their applications in enhancing the adhesion, hydrophobicity, and especially the anticorrosion of the coatings are discussed.

A core-shell structured sulfur-polypyrrole (S-PPy) composite consisting of spherical sulfur particles coated with a layer of polypyrrole has been developed as a cathode material for rechargeable Li-sulfur batteries. The composite offers high rate capability with excellent cyclability.

Reversible NO₂ sensing by controlling the balance of oxidised and over-oxidised PEDOT.

Incorporation of conducting polymers (CPs) with TiO₂ is considered a promising pathway toward the fabrication of highly efficient non-metal based photocatalysts.

This paper reported the modulation of the doping level of PEDOT:PSS with hydrazine to remarkably improve its Seebeck coefficient.

Using the density functional theory, the intrinsic volumetric capacitance of conducting polymers is calculated. It is shown that conducting polymers operate as double-layer supercapacitors rather than pseudo-capacitors.

The key factors that control the thermoelectric (TE) properties of PEDOT:PSS/PANI-CSA multilayer thin films to enhance the TE power factor.

The electrical conductivity of 1879.49 ± 13.87 S cm⁻¹ was achieved for PEDOT:PSS, which is the highest value reported to date.

A high-performance flexible thin film heater using AgNW–PEDOT:PSS/ITO, exhibiting stable operation in water.

The results clearly show that there was no detectable change in resistive switching characteristics of non-volatile bistable memory device even after bending the device at different angles, making it compatible with flexible electronics.

Treatment of PEDOT:PSS films with a superacid results in remarkable improvement of thermoelectric performance with a power factor of 142 μW m⁻¹ K⁻².

In this study, for the first time we report the fabrication of low-cost ethylene glycol (EG)-doped PEDOT–PSS (poly 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene:polystyrene sulfonate) organic thin film sensors for the detection of LPG at room temperature.

High performance actuator with large deformation and high conversion efficiency.

This paper illustrates a simpler method for the preparation of gel polymer electrolytes.

The most effective method, BD-method (combination of blending and dipping), is reported for increasing the conductivity of PEDOT:PSS using sodium dodecyl sulfate and the Joule heating behaviour of the fabric heater is demonstrated.

Polypyrrole nanotubes exhibit conductivity of tens S cm⁻¹ which is one of the highest among the current conducting polymers.

A low cost 3D stereolithography based printer has been used for a new polymer composite material with enhanced thermal properties containing 30 wt% micro-particulate diamond.

We address the ongoing quest for high efficiency, lightweight and thermally conducting electromagnetic interference shields. GNP/PEDOT:PSS composites are used to achieve an extremely high shielding effectiveness with enhanced thermal conductivity.

PEDOT and PSS mutually combine to form a supramolecular assembly of unique stability in aqueous medium. Formation of this complex is theoretically modeled and its spectroscopic and morphological properties are studied.

Screen-printed polymer thermoelectric devices provided sufficient power to illuminate light-emitting diodes.

Layered nanostructure PEDOT:PSS/SWCNTs (single-walled carbon nanotubes) composites have been successfully prepared utilizing a method of two-step spin casting.

PAni was polymerized and deposited in a BC hydrogel as an adhering layer on the surface of the bacterial cellulose fiber.