Conducting Polymer and Carbon Nanotube-Based Composites for Electrochemical Energy Storage

In the past several decades, conducting polymers (CPs) and carbon nanotubes have gained immense popularity and attention in academia as well as industries due to ease of synthesis via modern techniques, low-cost large-scale production, ease in acquiring tunable electrical and optical properties, better mechanical stability, and enhanced durability compared to other conventional analogs. In recent years, doped-conducting polymers have been explored for additional properties and improved potential applications in many fields, such as fuel cells, sensors, capacitors, catalysis, and so on. The use of conducting polymers and doped-conducting polymers, especially in the carbon-based electrochemical energy storage systems has shown numerous developments and applications so far. This chapter intends to explore the recent advances in this field of research including the synthesis of conducting polymer/carbon nanotube (CP/CNT) composites, characterization, and their application in electrochemical energy storage, viz., batteries and supercapacitors.