A Review Article from the Polymer Library
Review Article Abstract
June 2008
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| 1017994 | CONDUCTING POLYMERS IN CHEMICAL SENSORS AND ARRAYS |
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The review covers main applications of conducting polymers in chemical sensors and biosensors. The first part is focused on intrinsic and induced receptor properties of conducting polymers, such as pH sensitivity, sensitivity to inorganic ions and organic molecules as well as sensitivity to gases. Induced receptor properties can be also formed by molecularly imprinted polymerisation or by immobilisation of biological receptors. Immobilisation strategies are reviewed in the second part. The third part is focused on applications of conducting polymers as transducers and includes usual optical (fluorescence, SPR, etc.) and electrical (conductometric, amperometric, potentiometric, etc.) transducing techniques as well as organic chemosensitive semiconductor devices. An assembly of stable sensing structures requires strong binding of conducting polymers to solid supports. These aspects are discussed in the next part. Finally, an application of combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput analysis to the development and optimisation of sensing materials is described. 332 refs.
Analytica Chimica Acta, 614, No.1, 2008, p.1-26, DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2008.02.068 Lange U; Roznyatovskaya N V; Mirsky V M | |
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