Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Doping engineering of conductive polymer hydrogels and their application in advanced sensor technologies

Doping engineering of conductive polymer hydrogels and their application in advanced sensor... Conductive polymer hydrogels are emerging as an advanced electronic platform for sensors by synergizing the advantageous features of soft materials and organic conductors. Doping provides a simple yet effective methodology for the synthesis and modulation of conductive polymer hydrogels. By utilizing different dopants and levels of doping, conductive polymer hydrogels show a highly flexible tunability for controllable electronic properties, microstructures, and structure-derived mechanical properties. By rationally tailoring these properties, conductive polymer hydrogels are engineered to allow sensitive responses to external stimuli and exhibit the potential for application in various sensor technologies. The doping methods for the controllable structures and tunable properties of conductive polymer hydrogels are beneficial to improving a variety of sensing performances including sensitivity, stability, selectivity, and new functions. With this perspective, we review recent progress in the synthesis and performance of conductive polymer hydrogels with an emphasis on the utilization of doping principles. Several prototype sensor designs based on conductive polymer hydrogels are presented. Furthermore, the main challenges and future research are also discussed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Chemical Science Royal Society of Chemistry

Doping engineering of conductive polymer hydrogels and their application in advanced sensor technologies

Chemical Science , Volume 10 (25): 13 – Jun 26, 2019

Loading next page...
 
/lp/royal-society-of-chemistry/doping-engineering-of-conductive-polymer-hydrogels-and-their-NLASXRQG5C

References (132)

Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry
Copyright
This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN
2041-6520
eISSN
2041-6539
DOI
10.1039/c9sc02033k
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Conductive polymer hydrogels are emerging as an advanced electronic platform for sensors by synergizing the advantageous features of soft materials and organic conductors. Doping provides a simple yet effective methodology for the synthesis and modulation of conductive polymer hydrogels. By utilizing different dopants and levels of doping, conductive polymer hydrogels show a highly flexible tunability for controllable electronic properties, microstructures, and structure-derived mechanical properties. By rationally tailoring these properties, conductive polymer hydrogels are engineered to allow sensitive responses to external stimuli and exhibit the potential for application in various sensor technologies. The doping methods for the controllable structures and tunable properties of conductive polymer hydrogels are beneficial to improving a variety of sensing performances including sensitivity, stability, selectivity, and new functions. With this perspective, we review recent progress in the synthesis and performance of conductive polymer hydrogels with an emphasis on the utilization of doping principles. Several prototype sensor designs based on conductive polymer hydrogels are presented. Furthermore, the main challenges and future research are also discussed.

Journal

Chemical ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry

Published: Jun 26, 2019

There are no references for this article.