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Recent Advances of Conducting Polymers and Their Composites for Electrochemical Biosensing Applications

Journal of Functional Biomaterials

Conducting polymers (CPs) have been at the center of research owing to their metal-like electrochemical properties and polymer-like dispersion nature. CPs and their composites serve as ideal functional materials for diversified biomedical applications like drug delivery, tissue engineering, and diagnostics. There have also been numerous biosensing platforms based on polyaniline (PANI), polypyrrole (PPY), polythiophene (PTP), and their composites. Based on their unique properties and extensive use in biosensing matrices, updated information on novel CPs and their role is appealing. This review focuses on the properties and performance of biosensing matrices based on CPs reported in the last three years. The salient features of CPs like PANI, PPY, PTP, and their composites with nanoparticles, carbon materials, etc. are outlined along with respective examples. A description of mediator conjugated biosensor designs and enzymeless CPs based glucose sensing has also been included. The fut...

Electrochemical Biosensors Based on Conducting Polymers

Ionic Carriers in Organic Electronic Materials and Devices, 2010

Conducting polymers are an important class of functional materials that has been widely applied to fabricate electrochemical biosensors, because of their interesting and tunable chemical, electrical, and structural properties. Conducting polymers can also be designed through chemical grafting of functional groups, nanostructured, or associated with other functional materials such as nanoparticles to provide tremendous improvements in sensitivity, selectivity, stability and reproducibility of the biosensor's response to a variety of bioanalytes. Such biosensors are expected to play a growing and significant role in delivering the diagnostic information and therapy monitoring since they have advantages including their low cost and low detection limit. Therefore, this article starts with the description of electroanalytical methods (potentiometry, amperometry, conductometry, voltammetry, impedometry) used in electrochemical biosensors, and continues with a review of the recent advances in the application of conducting polymers in the recognition of bioanalytes leading to the development of enzyme based biosensors, immunosensors, DNA biosensors, and whole-cell biosensors.

Composite Material–Based Conducting Polymers for Electrochemical Sensor Applications: a Mini Review

BioNanoScience, 2020

Conducting polymers (CPs) represent a sizeable range of useful organic substances. Their unique electrical, chemical, and physical properties; reasonable price; simple preparation; small dimensions; and large surface area have enabled researchers to discover a wide variety of uses, including sensors, supercapacitors, solar cells, batteries, biochemical applications, and electrochromic devices. To promote the success of CPs, unique composite materials have been prepared with metals or steel oxides. The goal of this overview is to characterize the electrochemical sensor utility of CPs and their composites and to categorize future components of electrochemical sensing materials. CPs have been comprehensively applied over a wide range of variable industrial fields; such CPs have used many new materials with diverse compositions that are utilized as electrochemical sensors and biosensors. These materials have been fabricated inside numerous analytical instruments that are applied in healthcare settings and clinical, environmental, food, and pharmaceutical laboratories. Electrochemical sensors are essentially based on CPs and/or their corresponding composite materials. Therefore, the present work provides a brief illustration of electrochemical sensor and biosensor applications for the most important conducting polymer composite materials. Polyaniline (PANI), poly(o-toluidine) (PoT), and poly(o-anisidine) (PoAN) were considered in this study. Moreover, the most important electrochemical properties of these conducting polymer composite materials are discussed.

Prospects of conducting polymers in biosensors

Analytica Chimica Acta, 2006

Applications of conducting polymers to biosensors have recently aroused much interest. This is because these molecular electronic materials offer control of different parameters such as polymer layer thickness, electrical properties and bio-reagent loading, etc. Moreover, conducting polymer based biosensors are likely to cater to the pressing requirements such as biocompatibility, possibility of in vivo sensing, continuous monitoring of drugs or metabolites, multi-parametric assays, miniaturization and high information density. This paper deals with the emerging trends in conducting polymer based biosensors during the last about 5 years.

Application of conducting polymers to biosensors

Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2002

Recently, conducting polymers have attracted much interest in the development of biosensors. The electrically conducting polymers are known to possess numerous features, which allow them to act as excellent materials for immobilization of biomolecules and rapid electron transfer for the fabrication of efficient biosensors. In the present review an attempt has been made to describe the salient features of conducting polymers and their wide applications in health care, food industries, environmental monitoring etc.

Conducting Polymers in the Design of Biosensors and Biofuel Cells

Polymers, 2021

Fast and sensitive determination of biologically active compounds is very important in biomedical diagnostics, the food and beverage industry, and environmental analysis. In this review, the most promising directions in analytical application of conducting polymers (CPs) are outlined. Up to now polyaniline, polypyrrole, polythiophene, and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) are the most frequently used CPs in the design of sensors and biosensors; therefore, in this review, main attention is paid to these conducting polymers. The most popular polymerization methods applied for the formation of conducting polymer layers are discussed. The applicability of polypyrrole-based functional layers in the design of electrochemical biosensors and biofuel cells is highlighted. Some signal transduction mechanisms in CP-based sensors and biosensors are discussed. Biocom-patibility-related aspects of some conducting polymers are overviewed and some insights into the application of CP-based coatings for the design of implantable sensors and biofuel cells are addressed. New trends and perspectives in the development of sensors based on CPs and their composites with other materials are discussed.

Recent progress in nanocomposites based on conducting polymer: application as electrochemical sensors

International Nano Letters, 2018

Over the years, intensive research works have been devoted to conducting polymers due to their potential application in many fields such as fuel cell, sensors, and capacitors. To improve the properties of these compounds, several new approaches have been developed which consist in combining conducting polymers and nanoparticles. Then, this review intends to give a clear overview on nanocomposites based on conducting polymers, synthesis, characterization, and their application as electrochemical sensors. For this, the paper is divided into two parts: the first part will highlight the nanocomposites synthesized by combination of carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) and conducting polymers. The preparation of polymer/CNMs such as graphene and carbon nanotube modified electrode is presented coupled with relevant applications. The second part consists of a review of nanocomposites synthesized by combination of metal nanoparticles and conducting polymers.

Development of transducer matrices based upon nanostructured conducting polymer for application in biosensors

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The nanostructured polyaniline (NSPANI) and its gold nano composite (GNP) with controlled size distribution were developed using structure directing agents (SDA). The nano structure of polyaniline were investigated by UV-Visible spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), fourrier transform spectroscopy (FTIR) , X-ray crystallography and scanning electron microscopy(SEM) etc. These characterization techniques reveal the spherical shape of polyaniline nanoparticles and size in the range of 7-50 nm depending on the type of dopant and nature of SDA. In general, these NSCP colloidal solutions are highly stable. UV-Visible spectra show mainly two peaks at 360-430 nm and at 780-870 nm. The bathochromic shift of the UV-Visible bands as compared to bulk polyaniline, reflect high DC conductivity. TEM and DLS results demonstrate the formation of nanostructure with narrow size distribution. Due to remarkable properties of, it is used as an efficient transduction matrice for the development of highly sensitive, reproducible, stable optical cholesterol and H 2 O 2 biosensors having wide range of linearity and low Km values.

TOPICAL REVIEW: Conducting polymer-based nanostructurized materials: electrochemical aspects

Nanotechnology, 2005

New modern technologies require new materials. During the past decade, the movement towards nanodimensions in many areas of technology aroused a huge interest in nanostructurized materials. The present article reviews recent works dealing with electrochemistry-related aspects of nanostructurized conducting polymers. Electrochemical synthesis and some properties of nanostructurized conducting polymers, and nanocomposites derived from conducting polymers and metals, carbon, and inorganic and organic materials are considered. Some potential areas for electrochemistry-related applications of nanocomposites are highlighted, including batteries, supercapacitors, energy conversion systems, corrosion protection, and sensors.