Conducting Polymer Hybrids [Paperback]

This book presents a comprehensive survey about conducting polymers and their hybrids with different materials. It highlights the topics pertinent to research and development in academia and in the industry. The book thus discusses the preparation and characterization of these materials, as well as materials properties and their processing. The current challenges in the field are addressed, and an outline on new and even futuristic approaches is given.
Conducting Polymer Hybrids is concerned with a fascinating class of materials with the promise for wide-ranging applications, including energy generation and storage, supercapacitors, electronics, display technologies, sensing, environmental and biomedical applications. The book covers a large variety of systems: one-, two-, and three-dimenstional composites and hybrids, mixed at micro- and nanolevel.

Conducting polymer nanocomposites: recent developments and future prospects.- Polymer composites based on conducting metallic nanofillers.- Conducting polymer composites with magnetic nanoparticles.- Nanostructured conducting polymer composites.- Conductive polymer composites based on carbon nanomaterials.- Clay-based conducting polymer nanocomposites.- Conducting polymer composites based on cellulose nanocrystals.- Nanocomposites based on conducting polymers and carbon nanotubes.- Graphene based conducting polymer nanocomposites.- Conducting polymer-hydrogels and their applications.- Conducting polymer nanocomposites for sensor applications.- Conducting polymer nanocomposites based supercapacitors.Vijay Kumar is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of the Free State. His current research interests are in rare-earth doped up-conversion nanomaterials. He has published more than 40 research papers in different peer reviewed international journals.