Recent advancements in conducting polymer bionanocomposites and hydrogels for biomedical applications

Abstract

Recently electrically conducting polymeric bionanocomposites (ECPBs) have emerged as materials for use in biomedical, food and agricultural engineering due to their inherently plastic and biodegradable nature. ECPBs display biocompatibility, unique architecture, biodegradability, and so on, thereby improving their performance and opening novel horizons in their applicability especially in tissue engineering scaffolds, drug-conveying devices, and electrochemical biosensors and so on. In tissue engineering field, conductive hydrogels (CH) are biomaterials efficiently mimicking biologically and electrically inclined behavior of tissues in the human system. Therefore, this paper elucidates recently emerging trends in ECPBs, CH, novel applications in the biomedical field, and other relevant areas.

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Keywords:

• Biomedical applications
• conducting polymeric bionanocomposites
• conductive polymeric hydrogels

Acknowledgement

Prof. Charles Esimone, Vice Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria, and Prof. Azman Hassan of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia are acknowledged for encouraging and motivating effective academic legacies.

Disclosure statement

No conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).