Conducting Polymers Doped with Carbon Nanotubes

3 Conducting Polymers Doped with Carbon Nanotubes 

4 Noncovalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes with Conducting Polymers 

Rapid progress in the polymer/carbon nanotube composite research field has demonstrated a large potential for the discovery of new materials and phenomena, as well as the development of new technologies. The transition from fundamental to applied research involves a good knowledge of the physico-chemical properties of the smdied materials, and their vibrational characteristics provide primary information. Therefore, in this chapter, we have reviewed recent progress in the CP/CNT composites field from the point of view 

This work was performed in the framework of the Scientific Cooperation between the Institute of Materials, Jean Rouxel, Nantes and the Laboratory of Optics and Spectroscopy of the National Institute of Materials Physics, Bucharest. A part of this work was supported by the Romanian research projects IDEl 39, IDEl 41, PN n 62081 and PN 1172182. 

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Ibrahim, S. and Johan, M.R. (2012) Thermolysis and conductivity studies of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based polymer electrolytes doped with carbon nanotubes. Int. J. Electrochem. Sci., 7, 2596-2615. 

Recent advances in carbon nanotnbe technology inclnde the incorporation of carbon nanotubes into a number of conducting polymer-based biosensors. For example, preliminary studies have been performed exploring the properties of both polypyrrole-carbon nanotube and polyaniline-carbon nanotnbe devices as pH sensors [114], One application used deoxyribonucleic acid-doped polypyrrole in conjunction with carbon nanotubes for detection of deoxyribonucleic acid. 

CNT-doped conducting polymers possess improved mechanical, chemical, and optical properties. They also provide a simple strategy for making aligned CNTs. The disappearance of the characteristic peaks of carbon nanotubes in the FTIR spectrum of polymer/CNT composite films is normally an indication of perfect enwrapping of CNTs with the deposited conducting polymer [162, 163], Zhang et al. [40] have studied the... 

In order to render a plastic conductive although it is, by nature, an electrical and thermal insulator (with the exception of intrinsically conducting polymers, ICPs), we need to dope it with electrically conductive fillers such as steel microfibers (pFSs) [FEL 06], CNPs [FEL 01] or indeed carbon nanotubes [FEL 11]. By gradually varying the proportion of fillers in the polymer matrix, we see that its resistance goes... 

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