Communicating with the Building Blocks of Life Using Advanced Macromolecular Transducers

This paper reviews the use of conducting electroactive polymers (CEPs) in biomolecular communications. That is the use of CEPs in situations that demonstrate controlled interactions with moieties of biological interest and the ability to monitor such interactions via the electronic signals generated. As examples, the ability to manipulate CEP interactions with water, simple electrolyte ions, amino acids, proteins and mammalian cells is discussed.