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Polymers, Volume 17, Issue 21

November-1 2025 - 157 articles

Cover Story: Recycling multilayer plastic films remains a major barrier to circular packaging. Using advanced pilot-scale technologies—including NIR/Digital Watermark sorting, supercritical CO2 decontamination, dissolution-based recovery, and METEOR/MNL processing—this study links recyclate quality, film performance, and life-cycle impacts. By integrating technical and market substitutability into life-cycle assessment, it reveals that recycled content above 25% delivers substantial environmental benefits only when material quality and thickness are maintained. This framework bridges materials science and sustainability, guiding the design of truly circular multilayer films. View this paper
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Articles (157)

  • Article
  • Open Access
583 Views
15 Pages

6 November 2025

Salisbury screen-type radar absorption structures (RASs) consisting of a resistance sheet, a spacer, and a conductive base provide an efficient method for microwave absorption. An impedance-matched resistance sheet allows microwaves to enter, whereas...

  • Review
  • Open Access
775 Views
23 Pages

6 November 2025

Epoxy resin coatings are widely employed for steel protection owing to their excellent adhesion, chemical stability, mechanical strength, and barrier properties. However, conventional bisphenol A-based resins and organic solvents may pose risks to re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,018 Views
20 Pages

Polyethylene and Polypropylene Pyrolysis Using Fe3+-Modified Kaolin Catalyst for Enhanced Gas and Pyrolysis Oil Production

  • Sergey Nechipurenko,
  • Binara Dossumova,
  • Sergey Efremov,
  • Nazar Zabara,
  • Aigerim Kaiaidarova,
  • Olga Ibragimova,
  • Anara Omarova,
  • Fedor Pogorov and
  • Diyar Tokmurzin

6 November 2025

Calcined and acid-leached kaolin impregnated with Fe(NO3)3·9H2O (6.6 wt. % Fe2O3) was developed as an inexpensive bifunctional catalyst for the slow fixed-bed pyrolysis of polypropylene (PP) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE). Experiments wer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
613 Views
21 Pages

Tailoring PBT Performance Through PBT/POE-g-GMA Nanocomposites with MWCNT

  • Eduardo da Silva Barbosa Ferreira,
  • Elieber Barros Bezerra,
  • Carlos Bruno Barreto Luna,
  • Edson Antonio dos Santos Filho,
  • Renate Maria Ramos Wellen and
  • Edcleide Maria Araújo

6 November 2025

The production of polymer nanocomposites from supertough blends reinforced with carbon-based nanofillers has garnered attention in recent years due to improvements in their mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. Currently, the main challenge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
644 Views
17 Pages

6 November 2025

One of the current and serious environmental problems is the pollution due to microplastics. There is an urgent need for biodegradable and bio-based materials for numerous applications, including food packaging. In this work we examine the bio-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,059 Views
17 Pages

Green Synthesis of Chitosan Silver Nanoparticle Composite Materials: A Comparative Study of Microwave and One-Pot Reduction Methods

  • Ahmed Hosney,
  • Algimanta Kundrotaitė,
  • Donata Drapanauskaitė,
  • Marius Urbonavičius,
  • Šarūnas Varnagiris,
  • Sana Ullah and
  • Karolina Barčauskaitė

6 November 2025

Green synthesis methods of silver nanoparticles have gained great attention because they offer sustainable, eco-friendly, and less-toxic alternatives to traditional methods. This study sheds light on the green synthesis of chitosan silver nanoparticl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
515 Views
25 Pages

6 November 2025

Current analytical theories of recirculating flow in single-screw extruders consider only cross-channel flow in channels of infinite width with only one exception. Proper analysis of recirculating flow requires inclusion of normal velocities and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
474 Views
14 Pages

Detection of Filtration Characteristics of Nontraditional Asymmetric Microporous Membranes Using Size-Controllable Micro-Hydrogel

  • Hao Zhang,
  • Tiantian Zhu,
  • Yushan Zheng,
  • Weiheng Liu,
  • Tangxin Zhang,
  • Yuhua Mao,
  • Jiayuan Wang,
  • Lingyu Zhu,
  • Cheng Xu and
  • Jianli Wang

6 November 2025

Microporous membranes are frequently used to remove or concentrate suspended solids. To maximize filtration efficiency for certain high-value liquids, a microporous membrane with a nontraditional asymmetric topology was recently developed to treat bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
670 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Approach for the Estimation of the Efficiency of Demulsification of Water-In-Crude Oil Emulsions

  • Slavko Nešić,
  • Olga Govedarica,
  • Mirjana Jovičić,
  • Julijana Žeravica,
  • Sonja Stojanov,
  • Cvijan Antić and
  • Dragan Govedarica

6 November 2025

Undesirable water-in-crude oil emulsions in the oil and gas industry can lead to several issues, including equipment corrosion, high-pressure drops in pipelines, high pumping costs, and increased total production costs. These emulsions are commonly t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
436 Views
12 Pages

6 November 2025

The heat capacity decomposition method, a well-established analytical approach in polymer thermodynamics for elucidating thermal transitions in homogeneous polymers, is extended here to heterogeneous systems. We demonstrate that the decomposition of...

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Polymers - ISSN 2073-4360