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High fabrication cost, chemical instability, and complex immobilization of enzyme molecules are critical issues of enzyme‐based glucose sensors. Designing state‐of‐the‐art, binder‐free, and non‐enzymatic glucose sensing probes plays an imperative role to cope with the aforementioned issues. 3D carbonaceous nanomaterials coated with transition metal vanadates (TMVs) are a favorable biomimetic platform for glucose quantification. Peculiar hierarchical structure, enhanced conductivity, synergistic interaction, multiple oxidation states, and high catalytic activity would make such composite a potential contender for non‐enzymatic glucose sensing. Herein, 3D helical‐shaped carbon nanocoils (CNCs) are grown on nickel foam (NF) via chemical vapor deposition method to prepare a robust CNCs/NF scaffold. Then, a hydrothermal route is followed to grow interconnected free‐standing Ni3V2O8 nanosheets (NSs) on CNCs/NF scaffold. This novel and binder‐free Ni3V2O8 NSs/CNCs/NF hierarchical composite possesses superior electrochemical active area (ECSA) and exceptional electrochemical efficacy. Amperometric analysis exhibits extremely prompt detection time (0.1 s), elevated sensitivity (5214 µA mM−1 cm−2), and low detection limit (0.04 µM). Developed sensor demonstrates appreciable recoveries (93.3 to 103.3%) regarding glucose concentration in human serum. The appealing analytical results show that deployment of a 3D helical‐shaped hierarchical smart scaffold can be an effective strategy for developing efficient and advanced non‐enzymatic glucose sensors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sulfonated polybenzimidazole (sPBI)/sulfonated imidized graphene oxide (SIGO) was evaluated to be a potential candidate for high temperature proton exchange membranes fuel cells (HT‐PEMFCs). Multifunctionalized covalently bonded SIGO is incorporated in sPBI matrix to resolve the drawbacks such as low proton conductivity, poor water uptake, and ion‐exchange capacity (IEC) of sPBI polymer, synthesized by direct polycondensation in phosphoric acid for the application of proton exchange membranes. Strong hydrogen bonding among multifunctional groups established a neighborhood of interconnected hydrophobic graphene sheets and organic polymer chains. It provides hydrophobic–hydrophilic phase separation and facile proton hopping architecture. The optimized sPBI/SIGO (15 wt %) revealed 2.45 meq g−1 IEC; 5.81 mS cm−1 proton conductivity [120 °C and 10% relative humidity (RH)] and 2.45% bound water content. The maximum power density of the sPBI/SIGO‐15 membrane was 0.40 W cm−2 at 160 °C (5% RH) and ambient pressure with stoichiometric feed of H2/air. This recommends that sPBI/SIGO composite membranes are compatible candidate for HT‐PEMFCs. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2019, 136, 47892. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]