Polymer Materials: New Designs and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026 | Viewed by 9
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electroactive polymers; rheology; IPMC; deformation sensors; rubber recycling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymer materials have attracted more scholars to focus on related research, including their synthesis, characterization, and properties. Based on the above research, more advanced applications are promoting scholars to design polymeric materials, improve fabrications, and so on. Polymer materials are used not only for chemical research or engineering but also for medical applications, such as artificial muscles.
This Special Issue in Applied Sciences aims to collect recent advances in polymer materials and related applications, especially new methods/technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Polymer synthesis;
- Polymer processing;
- Polymer characterization;
- Polymer design;
- Polymeric structures;
- Chemical and physical properties;
- Mechanical properties;
- Electroactive polymers;
- Functional polymers;
- Nanostructured blends and copolymers;
- New methods/technologies and related applications.
We welcome interested scholars to contribute to this Special Issue.
Dr. Carlos Henrique Scuracchio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymer materials
- design
- fabrication
- properties
- new methods/technologies and related applications
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