Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings 4 (2017) 5672–5681 www.materialstoday.com/proceedings 2214-7853 © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and Peer-review under responsibility of INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR DEVICE APPLICATIONS(ICMDA-2016). ICMDA 2016 Recent developments in conducting polymer based composites for sensing devices S.K. Shukla a* , Chandra Shekhar Kushwaha a , N.B.Singh b a Department of Polymer science, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi-110075, India b Research and Technology Development Centre, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India Abstract Conducting polymers (CPs) and their composites have shown great promise for different sensing applications such as gas, humidity, explosive and water pollutants. CPs exhibited superior properties over other conducting materials. Furthermore, the addition of other components during composite formations develops much specific functionality for the tunable applications as different selective sensors. This review emphasizes, the state-of-the-art of CPs and its composite structures, preparative methods, properties and use in development of different sensors. The challenging issues concerning the commercialization of emerging CPs based sensor with respect to their future prospective have been highlighted. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and Peer-review under responsibility of INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR DEVICE APPLICATIONS(ICMDA-2016). Keywords: Conducting polymer; Preparative methods; properties, applications * Corresponding author. Tel.: +91-11205087597 Fax:.+91-11205081015 E-mail address: sarojshukla2003@yahoo.co.in