This book aims to provide an exciting and comprehensive exploration of the versatile world of conducting polymers and their modifications according to required properties and their diverse applications across a wide range of domains. Conducting polymers are a class of materials exhibiting electrical conductivity while retaining the inherent flexibility and adaptability of polymers. With the ability to be tailored and functionalized for specific purposes, these materials gain immense attention from students, researchers, scientists, and industries alike. This book also provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of the tuning of the conducting polymers, their characterization, properties, and applications in diverse fields, including but not limited to environmental remediation, surface coatings, electronics and optoelectronics, textiles and wearables, smart drug delivery, tissue engineering, and contemporary architecture. Aimed at students, researchers, and scientists, this book provides a valuable resource for understanding the potential of tailored conducting polymers for a wide array of innovative applications. This book addresses several key areas including a lack of updated information, cross-disciplinary knowledge gaps, needs for research in a particular field, innovation and problem-solving, industry relevance, and ultimately opens a wide window of numerous applications of such versatile materials for the researchers in material science and engineering, environmental science, biomedical field, architecture, industries, and so on.
Dr. Sapana Jadoun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile, and a Researcher at the Solar Energy Research Centre (SERC-Chile) under Project FONDAP ANID 1523A0006. She leads the UTA Mayor-funded project 4764-24 and was a FONDECYT Postdoctoral Researcher (2021-2024) at the University of Concepción. Previously, she secured postdoctoral funding from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China (2019), and surpassed the threshold for the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022). Dr. Jadoun earned her Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia, India (2019) and has extensive research experience, including roles as Junior and Senior Research Fellow in a DST-SERB project. She has qualified for the CSIR-NET exam in Chemical Sciences, securing 36th and 19th rank in 2011 and 2012. Her accolades include being listed among the world's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2023, 2024), selection as a Brand Ambassador for Bentham Science Publishers (2020), and membership in the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), 2022. With over seven years of teaching experience and a decade of research expertise, she has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, books, and patents, garnering 2,950 citations, an H-index of 29, and an i10 index of 51. Dr. Jadoun specializes in the functionalization of materials for photocatalysis, metal recovery, and environmental remediation. She also serves as an editor for journals like Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, and Polymers (MDPI) and contributes to multiple editorial boards.
Dr. Nirmala Kumari Jangid is working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali (India). Her research focuses on Materials chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, and polymer chemistry (Conducting polymers, and their functionalization for applications in photocatalysis, optoelectronics, sensing, etc.). She likes to work in interdisciplinary fields. She has been completed her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Department of Chemistry, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Rajasthan, India. She earned her master's in Organic Chemistry from the Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Rajasthan, India, and her Bachelor's degree from the University of Rajasthan, India. She has qualified for CSIR (Council for Scientific & Industrial Research) NET - JRF (National Eligibility Test-Junior Research Fellowship) in Chemical Sciences with All India Rank 73rd (June 2011). She has published over 3 patents, 15 peer-reviewed papers, 25 review articles, 40 book chapters, and 10 chapters in Encyclopaedia, 1 authored book, and edited 1 book. She has presented their research work at 15 international and national conferences. She is an active reviewer in more than 25 journals of international repute. At present, five students are doing their research work under her supervision. Her work is widely recognized, reflected in his h-index of 14, i10 index of 29, and nearly 1600 citations.
