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Sensory Polymers

From their Design to Practical Applications

  • 1st Edition - August 1, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: José Miguel García, Saúl Vallejos, Miriam Trigo-López
  • Language: English

Sensory Polymers: From their Design to Practical Applications discusses recent developments in the field of sensory polymers and showcases the potential applications of these mat… Read more

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Description

Sensory Polymers: From their Design to Practical Applications discusses recent developments in the field of sensory polymers and showcases the potential applications of these materials in food control and security, civil security, the biomedical field, environmental control and remediation, industrial control of chemicals, and more.

Written by worldwide experts in the field, chapters provide in-depth knowledge on several different polymer sensors and their response to different stimuli, which makes this book a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in polymer science, materials science, and chemistry, as well as those interested on sensing applications and chemical sensory systems, including industry R&D.

Key features

  • Discusses the foundation of sensory polymers, from material design to development and production
  • Explores state-of-the-art applications in environmental control, biomedicine, sensing, the chemical industry, and food science
  • Provides perspectives and future applications of polymer chemosensors

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers in the fields of polymers, materials science or chemistry, Advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested on materials science for sensing applications, polymer science, supramolecular chemistry, and chemical sensory systems.

Table of contents

1. Foundation of sensory polymers

Section 1: Sensory polymers for advanced applications

2. Sensors based on conjugated polymers

3. Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs)

4. Colorimetric sensors

5. Fluorogenic sensors

6. Electrochemical sensors

7. Biosensors

8. Hybrid polymer-based sensors

9. Polymer composite sensors

10. Sensors based on polymer nanomaterials

11. Polymeric smart structures

12. Sensor arrays

Section 2: Lab-on-a-chip and sensory devices

13. Polymers in sensory and lab-on-a-chip devices

14. Gas sensors

15. Humidity sensors

16. pH sensors

17. Temperature sensors

18. Detection of nitroaromatic and nitramine explosives

19. Sensing of metal ions and anions with fluorescent polymeric nanoparticles

20. Protein sensors

21. Detection of neutral species: unveiling new targets of interest

Section 3: Research trends and challenges in polymer sensors

22. Trends and challenges in polymer sensors

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 1, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

JG

José Miguel García

Dr. José Miguel García Pérez is founder and leader of the Polymer Group at the University of Burgos (UBU), aimed at the design, development and study of new polymeric materials with high added value for their application in advanced technologies. He is Vice-Rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer at the UBU, Vice-President of the Loop Consortium of the Universities of Castilla y León, and member of the Governing Council of the CENIEH Singular Scientific-Technical Facility (MINECO).
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Burgos, Spain

SV

Saúl Vallejos

Saúl Vallejos obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Burgos. While working on his doctoral thesis, he founded the company "Chameleon Sensors SL". This helped him get to know the industrial and commercial world closely, but mainly directed his research and the group towards real solutions for the real world. He worked at the European Space Agency (ESA, Noordwijk, Holland) and at the Miguel Hernández University (Elche, Spain) which helped him make more and better contributions in the field of polymers. He is co-director of the Polymer Research Group of the University of Burgos. He is the principal investigator of 3 funded research projects (funded with more than €100k) and has registered 18 patents in the last eight years.
Affiliations and expertise
Posdoctoral Researcher, Chemistry Department, University of Burgos, Spain

MT

Miriam Trigo-López

Miriam Trigo López started her Master’s in Education along with her PhD studies in Advanced Chemistry in the Polymer Research Group under the supervision of Professor José Miguel García Pérez and Dr. Félix C. García García in 2010. In 2012, she obtained a Research Personnel Formation Grant by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and another one on mobility by the same organization in 2014, to complete a stay in in the Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Santa Barbara, USA. She finished her PhD in December 2015. Her thesis about functional polymers and their applications as sensors and high-performance materials was awarded with the International Mention, Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2017) at the University of Burgos, the second award in the Best National Thesis about Polymers by the Spanish Royal Societies of Physics and Chemistry (RSEQ and RSEF) (2015), and with the award “Doctor TCUE” in 2015 for thesis with industrial applications.
 Recently, she obtained a funding from the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science (145.200 €) to lead her own research about the improvement of aromatic polyamides.
Affiliations and expertise
Posdoctoral Researcher, Chemistry Department, University of Burgos, Spain

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