Conducting polymers, types, properties, and applications in electroluminescence, separation, and mass spectroscopy

Due to their superb conductivity, conductive polymers (CPs) have a lot of promising applications in analytical chemistry. This review briefly discussed the types, properties, and preparation methods of CPs as well as excellent achievements in the analytical application, including spectroscopy, separation, and mass spectroscopy. Most of this work focuses on polypyrrole (PPy), polyaniline (PANI), polythiophene (PTH), and poly(-phenylenevinylene) (PPV) and their composites/hybrids. This work gives a perspective for the researchers who would be a useful guideline for designing new CP composites for analytical application in the future. Graphical abstract