The market for electrically conductive polymers is rapidly growing, and an emerging pathway for attaining these materials is via polymer-carbon nanotube (CNT) nanocomposites, because of the superior properties of CNTs. Due to their excellent electrical properties and anisotropic magnetic susceptibility, we expect CNTs could be easily aligned to maximize their effectiveness in imparting electric...

Electroconductive, homogeneous and dense ceramic/semiconductor/metal nanocomposites were obtained by hot press and subsequently machined by wire Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM). The addition of semiconductor and metal phases to a highperformance ceramic material produces nanocomposites which preserve the excellent mechanical properties of the ceramic/metal material while reaching the elect...

In the present work, the processing and characterization of electroconductive Alumina-TiC-Ni nanocomposites obtained by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) are described. These nanocomposites are singular due to the excellent mechanical properties they present (particular regarding Vickers hardness, 25.6 ± 0.7 GPa), as well as their extremely good wear behaviour, studied under “ball-on-disk” dry slidi...

New strategies for spatially controllable cell adhesion have been developed for brain cells from embryonic chicken. They are based on electrochemically active phenol and pyrrole derivatives, and can be used for the selective coverage of electroconductive substrates. Besides mimicking standard laminin-related adhesion promoting mechanisms by means of an electroactive monomer-linked 18-peptide se...

Abstract Electrically conductive bio-scaffolds are explored in the field of tissue engineering (TE) as a solution to address clinical need electroactive tissues, finding applications nervous, cardiac, and spinal cord injury repair. In this work, we synthesise polypyrrole nanoparticles (PPy NP) via mini-emulsion method with further combination gelatin/hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogel create electro...

Abstract Electroconductive composites are modern materials that commonly used in many industries such as construction industry and machine-building industry. For example, these can be useful sensors for monitoring changes constructions, shielding stray currents from electrification networks, electromagnetic radiation operating rooms, cathodic protection against moisture or overvoltage of buildi...