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Advances in the Use of Conducting Polymers for Healthcare Monitoring

International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2 authors, 2 centres

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This narrative review examines how conducting polymers, known for flexibility and biocompatibility, are being advanced for sensor design in healthcare monitoring. The central result is the synthesis of recent fabrication trends, sensing mechanisms, and performance evaluations for these materials.

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This narrative review synthesizes advances in conducting polymers (CPs) for healthcare sensor applications, focusing on material design, fabrication, and sensing mechanisms. The authors describe how combining CPs with various nanomaterials through polymerization creates customizable materials with enhanced properties like high conductivity and surface area, which improve sensor sensitivity and flexibility. The review classifies the roles of CPs and evaluates their performance in electrochemical and sensor designs for health monitoring. However, significant challenges remain, including long-term material stability, reproducibility in fabrication, selectivity in complex samples, and scalability for commercial production.

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PMC10855550

Advances in the Use of Conducting Polymers for Healthcare Monitoring

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

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Conducting polymers (CPs) are an innovative class of materials recognized for their high flexibility and biocompatibility, making them an ideal choice for health monitoring applications that require flexibility. They are active in their design. Advances in fabrication technology allow the incorporation of CPs at various levels, by combining diverse CPs monomers with metal particles, 2D materials, carbon nanomaterials, and copolymers through the process of polymerization and mixing. This method produces materials with unique physicochemical properties and is highly customizable. In particular, the development of CPs with expanded surface area and high conductivity has significantly improved the performance of the sensors, providing high sensitivity and flexibility and expanding the range of available options. However, due to the morphological diversity of new materials and thus the variety of characteristics that can be synthesized by combining CPs and other types of functionalities, choosing the right combination for a sensor application is difficult but becomes important. This review focuses on classifying the role of CP and highlights recent advances in sensor design, especially in the field of healthcare monitoring. It also synthesizes the sensing mechanisms and evaluates the performance of CPs on electrochemical surfaces and in the sensor design. Furthermore, the applications that can be revolutionized by CPs will be discussed in detail.

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Cuong Van Le, Hyeonseok Yoon. Advances in the Use of Conducting Polymers for Healthcare Monitoring. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. (2024). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25031564

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Cuong Van Le, Hyeonseok Yoon

1School of Polymer Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea; [email protected]
2Department of Polymer Engineering, Graduate School, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea

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Juan Torras-Costa