ABSTRACT
Conducting polymers have become promising biomaterials which have exhibited excellent properties in biomedical applications. Polymer-based electrospun nanofibers and freeze-dried scaffolds carrying the electrical properties open up an opportunity to improve the properties of scaffolds using existing technologies for tissue engineering applications. A conductive polymer is a very long chain of organic and inorganic molecules that can conduct electricity. The discovery and evolution of a variety of conductive polymers were at their peak in the 1970s. Studies of the application of conductive polymers in the biomedical field were greatly explored in the 1980s due to their biocompatible characteristic with many biological molecules. Electrospinning has emerged as one of the promising and attractive fiber-forming techniques using the application of electrostatic force to synthesize fibers with controlled diameters ranging from nanometers to sub-micrometer from a variety of polymers.
