Conducting polymers have been investigated for many years now for their electrical and electrochemical properties. The moderate range of conducting polymers now available, their many derivatives, broad range of counter-ion doping options, level of proton doping, and the many synthetic routes result in a large range of material properties in terms of conductivity, chemical sensitivity, selectivity, and redox characteristics. This allows them to participate in many chemical interactions which are suitable for chemosensing applications.Nanotechnology allows conducting-polymer materials to be studied and applied to chemical sensing in a new way. Controlling the structure and morphology of conducting polymer materials at nanoscales brings the prospect of a range of enhancements not possible with traditional bulk materials. Traditional routes to polymer formation, such as chemical and electrochemical synthesis, lack any fine control on the tertiary structure of the growing polymer, and this lack of structural reproducibility has negative consequences for the performance of the material as a sensor interface. In addition, such polymerizations,
Nanostructured Conductive PolymersEdited by Ali Eftekhari