Polymer Materials Chemistry: Design, Synthesis and Emerging Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2023) | Viewed by 9201
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymer; 3D printing; organ on-a-chip; biomaterial; nanoparticle; hydrogel; rheology
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Interests: polymers (controlled polymerization); drug delivery in cancer management; 3D printing; microfluidics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The domain of polymeric materials is known world-wide, these materials being key and powerful tools that make our live easier. Various industry fields, including building, aircraft, engineering, automotive, sport, medicine, pharmacology, life science, etc., depend on polymeric materials. In this regard, the polymeric domain has gained remarkable permanent progress in different areas in parallel with the development of technology and nanotechnology. Furthermore, new advanced polymeric-based materials are daily reported, together with new synthesis and characterization pathways. The chemistry of polymeric materials comprises numerous synthesis and application approaches for industrial and research field. The main classes include hydrogels, resins, nanocomposites, rubbers, paints, fibers, nanotechnology, protein engineering, thermoplastics, or processing.
This Special Issue of Applied Sciences, "Polymer Materials Chemistry: Design, Synthesis and Emerging Applications", focuses on novel studies for polymers and polymeric materials ranging from basic research up to specific applications.
This Special Issue highlights the new synthesis procedure and new reactions of polymer modifications able to produce polymeric materials with special characteristics in:
- Protein engineering and modifications within protein backbone with synthetic polymers (micelles, nanocarriers, etc.);
- 3D manufacturing and additive fabrication (Computer-Aided Design);
- Hydrogels and nanocomposites for biomedical applications (tissue engineering, drug delivery, organ-on-chip, etc.);
- New polymers in electronics, actuators, coatings, green and storage energy.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers and reviews are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Catalin Zaharia
Dr. Ionut-Cristian Radu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymers
- materials
- polymerization
- grafting
- crosslinking
- network
- synthesis
- additive manufacturing
- industry
- processing
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