A review on conducting polymer reinforced polyurethane composites

With the endless efforts in the development of polymer composite materials, conducting polymer reinforced in polyurethane (CP/PU) composites are gaining tremendous attention of scientific community in the past few years. Conducting polymers as a reinforcement, offers exceptional properties when it combines with the thermoplastic polyurethane matrix. In view of this, we critically highlight the development of different types of conducting polymers reinforced in polyurethane composites, with a detailed discussion on their method of synthesis and various characterizations techniques. Furthermore, the promising applications of CP/PU composites have also been discussed. Finally, we attempted to assemble the existing challenges and the possible future perspectives.