Review
Chemistry, Physical
Tao Wang, Yiwen Bao, Mengdi Zhuang, Jiacheng Li, Juncheng Chen, Hangxun Xu
Summary: Soft electronics benefit greatly from soft and stretchable conducting polymers with exceptional mechanical compliance and electrical performance. Strategies to enhance the performance of conducting polymers through nanostructuring have been developed in recent years, improving key parameters such as electrical conductivity, stretchability, sensitivity, and self-healing property in soft electronic devices. Future challenges and directions in engineering nanostructured conducting polymers for soft electronics are also discussed.
Review
Polymer Science
Shubham Sharma, P. Sudhakara, Abdoulhdi A. Borhana Omran, Jujhar Singh, R. A. Ilyas
Summary: This paper introduces electrically-conducting polymers and their applications in polymer nanocomposites. By combining organic electronics with design engineering, efforts are being made to enhance and modify the performance of devices in various fields such as sensors, solar cells, and biomedical applications.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ramesh Nandi, Yuval Agam, Nadav Amdursky
Summary: A significant effort in modern materials research is focused on developing green environmental and sustainable materials, with natural resources as attractive building blocks. This study demonstrates the creation of materials with high elasticity and proton conductivity using proteins, which show promise in biomedical applications.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Weimo Li, Ce Wang, Xiaofeng Lu
Summary: This review article discusses the recent development and electrocatalytic properties of carbon-rich nanomaterials derived from conducting polymers for hydrogen and oxygen reactions. The correlations between their composition, electronic structure, and electrocatalytic performance are comprehensively discussed. The challenges and opportunities in designing new types of conducting polymers-derived electrocatalysts with improved performance for hydrogen and oxygen reactions are also highlighted.
COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ruizhe Yang, Matthew Benner, Zipeng Guo, Chi Zhou, Jun Liu
Summary: Dynamic Schottky direct-current (DC) generators show great potential for energy harvesting, but the lack of understanding of DC generation in conducting polymer-based generators has hindered their applications. A high-performance, flexible Schottky DC generator demonstrated large current density and scaled-up DC output, inheriting flexibility from the long-chain polymer concept and showing promise for next-generation wearable devices.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Chen Chen, Ian E. Jacobs, Keehoon Kang, Yue Lin, Cameron Jellett, Boseok Kang, Seon Baek Lee, Yuxuan Huang, Mohammad Balooch Qarai, Raja Ghosh, Martin Statz, William Wood, Xinglong Ren, Dion Tjhe, Yuanhui Sun, Xiaojian She, Yuanyuan Hu, Lang Jiang, Frank C. Spano, Iain McCulloch, Henning Sirringhaus
Summary: This article investigates the charge transport physics of conducting polymers and finds that carriers are trapped near counterions at low doping levels, while charge transport is not limited by Coulombic trapping at high doping levels. A recently developed ion exchange doping method is used to study the ion size dependence of a semicrystalline polythiophene-based model system. It is found that the charge and thermoelectric transport are not sensitive to ion size even at low conductivities. This surprising observation can be explained by a heterogeneous doping process that involves high doping of amorphous domains before doping of crystalline domains. The study provides new insights into the evolution of thermoelectric physics in conducting polymers with doping levels.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Polymer Science
Xueying Chang, Zhiyin Yang, Ailun Huang, Yuto Katsuyama, Cheng-Wei Lin, Maher F. El-Kady, Chenxiang Wang, Richard B. Kaner
Summary: Research has shown that the cycling stability of composite electrodes based on aniline trimers and carbon nanotubes can be enhanced by establishing covalent bonding between the two materials. Additionally, higher porosity improves electron/ion transfer and the ability to adapt to volumetric changes, resulting in higher conductivity and extended cycle life.
MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Mikhail Vagin, Viktor Gueskine, Evangelia Mitraka, Suhao Wang, Amritpal Singh, Igor Zozoulenko, Magnus Berggren, Simone Fabiano, Xavier Crispin
Summary: The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a bottleneck for energy conversion efficiency in fuel cells and air-metal batteries, and there is a growing interest in finding efficient electrodes based on abundant materials. This study introduces a negatively doped poly(benzimidazobenzophenanthroline) (BBL) as a promising air electrode material, surpassing p-doped PEDOT in performance for low-cost and ecofriendly model fuel cells.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Mihaela Savin, Carmen-Marinela Mihailescu, Carmen Moldovan, Alexandru Grigoroiu, Ion Ion, Alina Catrinel Ion
Summary: Nanocomposite materials have been widely used in various applications, and their potential in CO detection is of particular interest. Combining polymers with carbon materials can improve the analytical parameters of sensors. The CO reaction mechanism may differ when measured in mixtures with other gases, resulting in lower sensitivity. This study provides a comprehensive description of carbon nanostructure-based chemosensors, covering sensing mechanisms, water solution strategies, and morphology choices.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jerika A. Chiong, Helen Tran, Yangju Lin, Yu Zheng, Zhenan Bao
Summary: The field of wearable and implantable skin-inspired devices is rapidly growing interest in the consumer market, with a focus on developing environmentally-friendly electronics using recyclable, biodegradable, and biocompatible polymer technologies to mitigate the adverse impact on the environment and human health. Through advancements in molecular design, processing parameters, and fabricating techniques, there is a potential for economic growth and increased efficiency in these devices, which aim to enhance human-environment interaction levels.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Lu Zhang, Tingting Song, Lianxu Shi, Nan Wen, Zijian Wu, Caiying Sun, Dawei Jiang, Zhanhu Guo
Summary: Conducting films based on silver nanowires (AgNWs) have various assembly methods, including printing, coating, vacuum filtration, template-assisted assembly, electrospinning, and gelating, each with its advantages.
JOURNAL OF NANOSTRUCTURE IN CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yifan Guo, Shuo Chen, Lijie Sun, Lei Yang, Luzhi Zhang, Jiaming Lou, Zhengwei You
Summary: In this study, a conductive recyclable composite (PFBC) was designed with excellent properties and environmental tolerance, achieved through reversible dissociation of Diels-Alder networks for convenient processing and recycling. PFBC-based wearable electronics were successfully produced, offering a new pathway to reduce e-waste.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Elfin L. Howard, Anna M. Osterholm, D. Eric Shen, L. Prerana Panchumarti, Carlos Pinheiro, John R. Reynolds
Summary: The article discusses the use of conjugated electrochromic polymers to optimize flexible EC displays, providing high-quality color-changing displays within budget constraints.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2021)
Review
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Harikrishna Sahu, Hongmo Li, Lihua Chen, Arunkumar Chitteth Rajan, Chiho Kim, Natalie Stingelin, Rampi Ramprasad
Summary: High-performance surrogate models were developed to predict the p-type electrical conductivity of doped conjugated polymers, leading to the screening of a large dataset of polymer-dopant combinations and the identification of promising candidates for synthesis and device fabrication. New design guidelines were extracted from the study, and conductivity prediction models are now available for broader community use on www.polymergenome.org.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2021)
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Sultan Ahmed, Ahsan Ahmed, D. Baba Basha, Shahir Hussain, Islam Uddin, M. A. Gondal
Summary: With the depletion of fossil fuels and increasing energy demand, renewable energy sources and efficient energy storage technologies are gaining attention. Supercapacitors (SCs), despite having lower energy density than commercial batteries, are considered potential energy storage devices due to their compact size, excellent power management, long lifespan, high capacity, and throughput. Conducting polymers (CPs) have been employed as SC electrode materials due to their ease of synthesis, conductivity, and flexibility. However, their sole use results in low specific capacitance and poor cycle stability, which can be improved by combining them with nanomaterials like metal oxides and carbon forms.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yikuan Liu, Xiaona Liu, An Su, Chengtao Gong, Shenwei Chen, Liwei Xia, Chengwei Zhang, Xiaohuan Tao, Yue Li, Yonghe Li, Tulai Sun, Mengru Bu, Wei Shao, Jia Zhao, Xiaonian Li, Yongwu Peng, Peng Guo, Yu Han, Yihan Zhu
Summary: Covalent organic frameworks are crystalline porous materials with designable structures and functions, which can acquire multifunctionalities and have versatile applications in gas separation/storage, catalysis, and optoelectronic devices.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Heyang Zhang, Jo Vandesompele, Kevin Braeckmans, Stefaan C. De Smedt, Katrien Remaut
Summary: Gene therapy has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of inherited and acquired diseases, but its success rate is currently limited. This review focuses on the obstacles faced by gene therapies in the human body, such as nucleic acid degradation by abundant nucleases, and discusses strategies to reduce degradation and methods to assess nucleic acid integrity.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chenxi Duan, Chunming Cui
Summary: Low valent group 14 compounds with diazaborolyl substituents exhibit unique structures and reactivity due to the combination of sigma-electron donation and steric hindrance. The modulation of the HOMO-LUMO gap by the diazaborolyl substituents results in novel reaction patterns in the activation of small molecules and inert chemical bonds.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
David E. Salazar Marcano, Nada D. Savic, Kilian Declerck, Shorok A. M. Abdelhameed, Tatjana N. Parac-Vogt
Summary: Metal-oxo clusters have great potential in various fields and can react with biomolecules, making them promising for applications in disease treatment and energy development. They can also be used in the development of inorganic drugs and bioanalytical tools.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Lana K. Moree, Logan A. V. Faulkner, James D. Crowley
Summary: In this tutorial review, the general methods for synthesizing heterometallic metallosupramolecular architectures (MSAs), specifically heterometallic cages, are examined. The intrinsic properties and potential applications of these cages as host-guest systems and reaction catalysts are discussed.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
(2024)