Nanostructured Conducting Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 January 2024) | Viewed by 8181
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrochemical synthesis of conducting polymers; electrochemical characterization of conducting polymers; nanostructured conducting polymers; conducting polymers (bulk or nanostructured) in electric or electronic devices and sensors
Interests: synthesis, electrosynthesis and characterization of different nanomaterials inorganic and electrosynthesis of conductive polymer nanostructures and bulk for use in; supercapacitors, batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, electrocatalysis of species of interest, corrosion protection
Interests: synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials; monitoring and transport of nanoparticles; soil chemical analysis, mineralogical studies, electrochemistry, molecules electrochemical characterization, conducting polymers, nanotechnology, fuel cells, photovoltaics, microbial fuel cells, added value substances electrochemical production, bio-remediation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The environmental crisis is at its worst stage, mainly due to human dependency on fossil fuel-based energy production. Additionally, numerous new substances are being produced, used, and, afterwards, disposed of directly into the environment regardless of the consequences and without the required technology for their quantification. Thus, it is important to research and design new materials that improve the performance of devices for the conversion, storage, and supply of clean energy, and for the detection of pollutants. In particular, there is a global interest for the development of novel materials with applications for clean energy production systems (fuel cells, photovoltaics), energy storage devices (batteries, capacitors), and sensors. In this regard, in alternative to classic inorganic materials, conducting polymers have stood out as suitable materials in the abovementioned applications. Conducting polymers are less toxic, more abundant, versatile materials if compared to inorganic-based materials. Thus, several strategies for the preparation and application of conducting polymers have been developed during the last half century. Nowadays, nanostructured conducting polymers (including composites between conducting polymers and nanomaterials or nanometric structured conducting polymers) have gained significant attention from scientific community due to the enhancement of typical properties. If compared to bulk morphology, nanostructured conducting polymers usually present higher surface area, increased electrical conductivity, greater charge storage capacity, enhanced durability, faster charge transference, among others. Therefore, numerous new methods for the preparation and application of nanostructured conducting polymers are being published showing outstanding performances on energy technologies and sensors, such as those mentioned.
Understanding their potentiality on the improvement of key-technologies required to counter environmental crisis, this Special Issue of Polymers invites contributions addressing several aspects of nanostructured conducting polymers, such as novel preparation methods (chemical or electrochemical), novel monomer polymerization of nanostructures, fundamental characterization (thermodynamics and kinetics), computational modeling, and application on energy technologies and sensors. The above list is only indicative and by no means exhaustive; any original research or review article dealing with any aspect of nanostructured conducting polymers is welcome. We hope that these contributions will address a variety of systems, including linear and nonlinear conducting polymer architectures, conducting polymer blends, copolymers, nanoparticle-conducting polymer composites, any shape of nanostructured conducting polymer (sphere, wire, bar, plates, among others), and its applications (fuel cells, photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, batteries, capacitors, sensors, among others).
Prof. Dr. María Angélica Del Valle de la Cortina
Dr. Andrés Ramírez Ramírez
Dr. Manuel Gacitúa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- conjugated polymer
- conductive polymer
- polymeric semiconductor
- conducting oligomer
- polymeric nanomaterial
- electronic polymers
- electronic molecular materials
