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Additive Manufacturing of Conducting Polymers: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Source :
- Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación, instname, ACS Applied Polymer Materials
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- ACS Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- Conducting polymers (CPs) have been attracting great attention in the development of (bio)electronic devices. Most of the current devices are rigid two-dimensional systems and possess uncontrollable geometries and architectures that lead to poor mechanical properties presenting ion/electronic diffusion limitations. The goal of the article is to provide an overview about the additive manufacturing (AM) of conducting polymers, which is of paramount importance for the design of future wearable three-dimensional (3D) (bio)electronic devices. Among different 3D printing AM techniques, inkjet, extrusion, electrohydrodynamic, and light-based printing have been mainly used. This review article collects examples of 3D printing of conducting polymers such as poly(3,4-ethylene-dioxythiophene), polypyrrole, and polyaniline. It also shows examples of AM of these polymers combined with other polymers and/or conducting fillers such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and silver nanowires. Afterward, the foremost applications of CPs processed by 3D printing techniques in the biomedical and energy fields, that is, wearable electronics, sensors, soft robotics for human motion, or health monitoring devices, among others, will be discussed.<br />This work was supported by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation StaffExchanges (RISE) under Grant No. 823989 “IONBIKE”. EU Horizon 2020 FETOPEN-2018−2020 Programme “LION-HEARTED”, Grant No. 828984. N.A. has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant No. 753293, acronym NanoBEAT.
- Subjects :
- Polymers and Plastics
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Process Chemistry and Technology
Organic Chemistry
3D printing
02 engineering and technology
bioelectronics
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
electronic applications
0104 chemical sciences
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Political science
Regional science
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0210 nano-technology
conducting polymers
additive manufacturing
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Details
- ISSN :
- 26376105
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ACS APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS 3: 2865-2883 (2021)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....05c4c6b0c842ee45a3d904b575af27a6