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Polyindole and polypyrrole as a sustainable platform for environmental remediation and sensor applications

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MATERIALS ADVANCES
Volume 3, Issue 7, Pages 2990-3022

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2ma00022a

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  1. CSIR

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This review highlights the importance of conducting polymers and the applications of nanoparticle-incorporated composites in the fields of chemistry and material science. It focuses on the synthesis of two main types of conducting polymer nanocomposites and their applications in contaminant treatment, sensing, and green chemistry. Different strategies to improve the performance and applications of conducting polymers are also discussed.
Conducting polymer (CPs), which are Nobel Prize-winning materials, have opened an exciting area of research due to their substantial electrical conductivity, unique structures, and ability to generate new composite materials, and have wide applications ranging from optoelectronics to material science. Research on conducting polymers has triggered much attention in nanoparticle-incorporated composites, which provide enhanced synergistic properties even at low filler concentration, resulting in high-level performance in important fields such as chemistry and material science. This review focuses on the synthesis of nanocomposites of two main types of N-containing conducting polymers, namely, polypyrrole (PPY) and polyindole (PIN), as well as an in-depth analysis of their binary and ternary nanocomposites in the treatment of contaminants, sensing, and green chemistry. This review also covers different strategies for the versatile property improvement of these conducting polymers with unique applications. This review is expected to be useful for the field of chemistry to explore the possibility of new composite mixtures of conducting polymers in environmental and sensing applications.

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