Conducting Polymer Hybrids

This book presents a comprehensive survey about conducting polymers and their hybrids with different materials. It highlights the topics pertinent to research and development in academia and in the industry. The book thus discusses the preparation and characterization of these materials, as well as materials properties and their processing. The current challenges in the field are addressed, and an outline on new and even futuristic approaches is given.
“Conducting Polymer Hybrids” is concerned with a fascinating class of materials with the promise for wide-ranging applications, including energy generation and storage, supercapacitors, electronics, display technologies, sensing, environmental and biomedical applications. The book covers a large variety of systems: one-, two-, and three-dimenstional composites and hybrids, mixed at micro- and nanolevel.

Vijay Kumar is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of the Free State. His current research interests are in rare-earth doped up-conversion nanomaterials. He has published more than 40 research papers in different peer reviewed international journals.

Susheel Kalia is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Bahra University, India. His research interests include polymeric composites, bio- and nanocomposites, conducting polymers, nanofibers, nanoparticles, hybrid materials, hydrogels, and cryogenics. He has around 60 research papers in international journals along with some 50 publications in national and international conferences and many book chapters. Kalia is an experienced book editor, and he has edited a number of successful books (with Springer), such as "Cellulose Fibers: Bio- and Nano-Polymer Composites", "Polymers at Cryogenic Temperatures", or "Polysaccharide Based Graft Copolymers".

Hendrik C. Swart is senior professor in the Department of Physics at the University of the Free State. His research focus is on solid state luminescent and advanced materials, with a main objective to develop micro- and nanophosphors for applications in infrastructure and high technology flat panel displays. He has more than 270 publications in international peer reviewed journals, 40 peer reviewed conference proceedings, and 3 book chapters and books as well as 400 national and international conference contributions.