Carbon Nanomaterials Embedded in Conductive Polymers: A State of the Art.

I Jénnifer Gómez,Manuel Vázquez Sulleiro,Daniele Mantione,Nuria Alegret

doi:10.3390/polym13050745

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Carbon nanomaterials are at the forefront of the newest technologies of the third millennium, and together with conductive polymers, represent a vast area of indispensable knowledge for developing the devices of tomorrow. This review focusses on the most recent advances in the field of conductive nanotechnology, which combines the properties of carbon nanomaterials with conjugated polymers. Hybrid materials resulting from the embedding of carbon nanotubes, carbon dots and graphene derivatives are taken into consideration and fully explored, with discussion of the most recent literature. An introduction into the three most widely used conductive polymers and a final section about the most recent biological results obtained using carbon nanotube hybrids will complete this overview of these innovative and beyond belief materials.

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Introduction of Conductive PolymersWhat is plastic made of? This simple question could have the same answer as Why wasI born? Or What is the meaning of life? The answers are complicated
We focus on the hybrid materials resulting from the embedding of CNT, graphene derivatives and Carbon dots (CDs) with conductive polymers (CP)
The synergy of carbon nanomaterials and CP strengthens the nanocomposites, this combination creates a new generation of devices with unique capabilities

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Introduction of Conductive PolymersWhat is plastic made of? This simple question could have the same answer as Why wasI born? Or What is the meaning of life? The answers are complicated. The six examples we have given here are from six different plastics, or better said, six different polymers. This is the term that chemists use to define all this family and even more. From the chemical point of view, everything that is composed of many (almost) identical molecules that are connected is a polymer, and the initial question can be answered as: “ . Conductive polymers (CP) represent one of the most peculiar and revolutionary types of polymer. Their discovery passed un-noticed and their boom came with the new millennium, when in 2000 a Nobel prize was given to this discovery which was made in the 1970s. The three main conductive polymers, i.e., polyaniline (PANI), polypyrrole

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