Toxic heavy metals: impact on the environment and human health, and treatment with conducting organic polymers, a review

ML Sall, AKD Diaw, D Gningue-Sall… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
Water pollution by heavy metals has many human origins, such as the burning of fossil fuels,
exhaust gases of vehicles, mining, agriculture, and incineration of solid and liquid wastes …

Conducting polypyrrole nanotubes: a review

J Stejskal, M Trchová - Chemical Papers, 2018 - Springer
Polypyrrole nanotubes rank among the most conducting polymer materials. The role of the
templates in the formation of nanotubes is analysed and various models are discussed …

Polyaniline and polypyrrole: A comparative study of the preparation

NV Blinova, J Stejskal, M Trchová, J Prokeš… - European polymer …, 2007 - Elsevier
Aniline and pyrrole have been oxidized with ammonium peroxydisulfate in aqueous
solutions, in the presence of equimolar quantities of hydrochloric acid. The oxidation of …

Polypyrrole salts and bases: superior conductivity of nanotubes and their stability towards the loss of conductivity by deprotonation

J Stejskal, M Trchová, P Bober, Z Morávková… - RSC …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Polypyrrole nanotubes exhibit conductivity of tens S cm− 1 which is one of the highest
among the current conducting polymers. They are thus superior to the common globular …

Cu2O-CuO@ biochar composite: synthesis, characterization and its efficient photocatalytic performance

A Khataee, D Kalderis, P Gholami, A Fazli… - Applied Surface …, 2019 - Elsevier
This research focuses on the facile hydrothermal preparation of Cu 2 O-CuO@ biochar (Cu
2 O-CuO@ BC) composites of different BC content (0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 g/L) as efficient …

Biodegradable and electroconductive poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/carboxymethyl chitosan hydrogels for neural tissue engineering

C Xu, S Guan, S Wang, W Gong, T Liu, X Ma… - Materials Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Electroconductive hydrogels with excellent electromechanical properties have become
crucial for biomedical applications. In this study, we developed a conductive composite …

Design and fabrication of a gas sensor based on a polypyrrole/silver nanoparticle film for the detection of ammonia in exhaled breath of COVID-19 patients suffering …

M Kamalabadi, A Ghoorchian… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
One of the serious complications of COVID-19 is acute kidney injury (AKI), leading to a
decrease in kidney function and even death. The concentration of ammonia (NH3) in the …

Polypyrrole nanotubes: mechanism of formation

J Kopecká, D Kopecký, M Vrňata, P Fitl, J Stejskal… - RSC Advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This article presents a contribution to better understanding of the processes which take
place during the synthesis of polypyrrole nanotubes using a structure-guiding agent, methyl …

Facile template synthesis of microfibrillated cellulose/polypyrrole/silver nanoparticles hybrid aerogels with electrical conductive and pressure responsive properties

S Zhou, M Wang, X Chen, F Xu - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Sustainable microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) aerogels are considered to be good templates
for the growth of functional organic or inorganic nanoparticles. In this work, MFC aerogels …

Formation mechanism of conducting polypyrrole nanotubes in reverse micelle systems

J Jang, H Yoon - Langmuir, 2005 - ACS Publications
Polypyrrole (PPy) nanotubes were readily fabricated through chemical oxidation
polymerization in sodium bis (2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate (AOT) reverse (water-in-oil) …