Conducting polymers (CPs), thanks to their unique properties, structures made on-demand, new composite mixtures, and possibility of deposit on a surface by chemical, physical, or electrochemical methodologies, have shown in the last years a renaissance and have been widely used in important fields of chemistry and materials science. Due to the extent of the literature on CPs, this review, after a concise introduction about the interrelationship between electrochemistry and conducting polymers, is focused exclusively on the following applications: energy (energy storage devices and solar cells), use in environmental remediation (anion and cation trapping, electrocatalytic reduction/oxidation of pollutants on CP based electrodes, and adsorption of pollutants) and finally electroanalysis as chemical sensors in solution, gas phase, and chiral molecules. This review is expected to be comprehensive, authoritative, and useful to the chemical community interested in CPs and their applications.

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能源，环境修复和化学手性传感器领域的导电聚合物

导电聚合物（CP）凭借其独特的性能，按需制造的结构，新的复合混合物以及通过化学，物理或电化学方法沉积在表面上的可能性，这些年来已显示出复兴的趋势，并且得到了广泛的应用用于化学和材料科学的重要领域。由于有关CP的文献广泛，在简要介绍了电化学与导电聚合物之间的相互关系之后，本篇综述专门针对以下应用：能量（储能装置和太阳能电池），环境修复中的使用（阴离子）阳离子捕获，基于CP的电极上的污染物的电催化还原/氧化以及污染物的吸附），最后是作为溶液，气相，和手性分子。预期此审查将是全面，权威且对对CP及其应用感兴趣的化学界有用的。