Recent trends of micro and nanostructured conducting polymers in health and environmental applications
| Autor: | Bruno José Gonçalves Silva, Thiago N.M. Cervantes, Floriatan Santos Costa, Rafael Justino da Silva, Larissa Bach-Toledo, Vanessa Klobukoski, Marcio Vidotti, Tatiana L. Valerio, Isabela Jasper, Jéssica Tamara Schneider, Frederico L.F. Soares, Patricio Peralta-Zamora, Gabriela de Alvarenga, Bruna M. Hryniewicz, Clarice D.B. Amaral |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Conductive polymer
chemistry.chemical_classification Complex matrix General Chemical Engineering Nanotechnology 02 engineering and technology Polymer 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Analytical Chemistry chemistry Electrochemistry Drug release Environmental science Artificial muscle 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 879:114754 |
| ISSN: | 1572-6657 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114754 |
| Popis: | Conducting polymers are, without question, outstanding materials. Their unique combination between metal-like, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties and the processability of polymeric materials consolidated their use in the electrochemical sciences over the past decades. However, the versatile character of these polymers combined with the advent of nanoscience has expanded their horizon of applications, now entering the fields of biomedicine and life science, as well as the environmental sciences. This review brings the latest advances on the use of conducting polymers micro and nanostructures in biomedical applications, such as controlled drug release, artificial muscles, and tissue engineering, where their stimuli responsiveness has shown new and exciting possibilities. Moreover, this review shows that the use of conducting polymers in effective extraction and pre-concentration of trace amount pollutants from complex matrices resulted in extraction capacities often superior to the materials currently commercialized. More than extracting contaminants, conducting polymers have shown further promissing results in the degradation of organic contaminants through photoelectrocatalysis. New features in the synthesis of these polymers are also addressed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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