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Title: New Insights to Design Electrospun Fibers with Tunable Electrical Conductive–Semiconductive Properties
Fiber electronics, such as those produced by the electrospinning technique, have an extensive range of applications including electrode surfaces for batteries and sensors, energy storage, electromagnetic interference shielding, antistatic coatings, catalysts, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and smart textiles. New composite materials and blends from conductive–semiconductive polymers (C-SPs) offer high surface area-to-volume ratios with electrical tunability, making them suitable for use in fields including electronics, biofiltration, tissue engineering, biosensors, and “green polymers”. These materials and structures show great potential for embedded-electronics tissue engineering, active drug delivery, and smart biosensing due to their electronic transport behavior and mechanical flexibility with effective biocompatibility. Doping, processing methods, and morphologies can significantly impact the properties and performance of C-SPs and their composites. This review provides an overview of the current literature on the processing of C-SPs as nanomaterials and nanofibrous structures, mainly emphasizing the electroactive properties that make these structures suitable for various applications.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1952589
PAR ID:
10463801
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Sensors
Volume:
23
Issue:
3
ISSN:
1424-8220
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1606
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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