Conducting Polymers for Technological Advances
1Head of Center of Nanotechnology and Materials Science, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2Centre for Physical Sciences and Technologies (FTMC), Vilnius, Lithuania
3Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania
4University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
5Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University, Poznan, Ukraine
Conducting Polymers for Technological Advances
Description
This Special Issue is dedicated to the application of various conducting polymers and various electrochemically and chemically deposited polymeric structures (including nanostructures) that can be applied for various technological applications including anticorrosion coatings, coatings for electromagnetic shielding, solar cells, ‘smart windows’, electrochromic devices, organic electronics, bioelectronics, biomedical devices, sensors, biosensors, etc. Significant attention will be paid towards conducting polymers that are improving charge transfer and are applied in the design of enzymatic biosensors and affinity sensors. Some conducting polymers can be used as redox mediators and/or even be involved into direct charge transfer from redox enzymes. Articles that report on the application of conducting polymers combined with nanomaterials (gold-based nanomaterials, carbon-based nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, graphene, reduced graphene, nanodiamond, etc.) and semiconducting metal oxides such as (TiO2, ZnO, WO3, V2O5 and many others) are also welcome. Researchers providing contributions addressing the development of immunosensors and sensors on molecularly imprinted polymers based on conducting polymers and/or will be also accepted.
This Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles focusing on conducting polymers and their potential to provide technological advances.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Conducting polymers
- Conjugated polymers
- PEDOT
- Biosensors
- Nanomaterials
- Gold nanoparticles
- Metal oxide based nanostructures
- Carbon-based nanostructures
- Affinity Biosensors
- Immunosensors
- Electromagnetic shielding
- Solar cells
- Anticorrosion coatings
- Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs)