The aim of this review is to summarize the recent progress in the fabrication of efficient nanostructured polymer-based sensors with special focus on polypyrrole. The correlation between physico-chemical parameters, mainly morphology of various polypyrrole nanostructures, and their sensitivity towards selected gas and volatile organic compounds (VOC) is provided. The different approaches of pol...

A simple and sensitive electrochemical immunosensor with impedance labelless detection and novel data processing method was investigated. One-step copolymerization was used to electrochemically deposit an antibody impregnated polypyrrole film on a glassy carbon electrode surface for the immunosensor. Impedance measurements provided a labelless or reporterless method to detect antibody (Ab)-anti...

Polypyrrole is one of the important conductive polymers that are widely used in energy storage systems, biosensors and electronics. The electrochemical synthesis of polypyrrole has advantages of simple process, mass production and low cost. In this study, polypyrrole thin films were deposited on different electrode substrates by cyclovoltammetric (CV), galvanostatic and potentiostatic depositio...

INTRODUCTION The development of conducting colloids stemmed from applications driven needs for proeessable conducting polymers. Because conducting polymers are aggregated in nature, due to their conjugated backbones, the preparation of colloidal systems of these aggregates is an attractive approach to by-passlng the intractability problem. The reason for focussing on the two particular colloida...

A novel nanocomposite has been developed using extracted cellulose from marine algae coated with conductive polypyrrole and graphene nanoplateletes. The nanocomposite fabricated via in situ polymerization was used as an electrode for a supercapacitor device. The nanocomposite material has been electrochemically characterized using cyclic voltammetry to test its potential to super-capacitive beh...

A novel protocol for precisely coating individual multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with an ultrathin layer of polypyrrole was developed. The nanocoated MWCNTs were successfully prepared by in situ chemical deposition of polypyrrole in an aqueous suspension of MWCNTs. The coating layer was very uniform and the thickness of the layer was determined by controlling the monomer concentration used...

Here we demonstrate the use of a functional dopant as a fast and simple way to tune the chemical affinity and selectivity of polypyrrole films. More specifically, a boronic-functionalised dopant, 4-N-Pentylphenylboronic Acid (PBA), was used to provide to polypyrrole films with enhanced affinity towards diols. In order to prove the proposed concept, two model systems were explored: (i) the captu...