Nanostructured Conducting Polymers for (Electro)chemical Sensors

Nanostructured Conductive Polymers

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 563-598

  Killard, Anthony J ^a,b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube nanocomposites; Electrochemical sensors, and nanostructured conducting polymer materials and composites; Nanofibers and nanocables; Nanogaps and nanojunctions and concept of ChemFET; Nanostructured conducting polymers advantage over bulk counterparts; Nanostructured conducting polymers for (electro)chemical sensors; Nanostructured conducting polymeric materials in chemical sensing applications; Nanowires and nanotubes; Template directed synthesis of conducting polymer nanowires

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886200803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661338.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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