Polymer Materials Chemistry: Design, Synthesis and Emerging Applications, Second Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Polymeric materials are studied world-wide, representing important and powerful tools that make our lives easier, and they are depended upon by various industries, including building, aircraft, engineering, automotives, sports, medicine, pharmacology, and life sciences. In this regard, remarkable progress has been made in various areas of the polymeric materials domain, in parallel with the development of technology and nanotechnology. Furthermore, new advanced polymer-based materials are continually being reported, together with new synthesis and characterization pathways. The chemistry of polymeric materials enables them to undergo numerous synthesis approaches for application in industry and research. Their primary applications include the synthesis of hydrogels, resins, nanocomposites, rubbers, paints, fibers, and nanotechnology; protein engineering; the synthesis of thermoplastics; and polymer processing.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences welcomes novel studies and reviews on polymers and polymeric materials, ranging from basic research to specific applications. It aims to highlight new synthesis procedures and new reactions arising from polymer modifications that enable the production of polymeric materials with special characteristics, with applications in the following fields:

• Protein engineering and protein backbone modifications using synthetic polymers (micelles, nanocarriers, etc.);
• Three-dimensional manufacturing and additive fabrication (Computer-Aided Design);
• Hydrogels and nanocomposites for biomedical applications (tissue engineering, drug delivery, organ-on-a-chip, etc.);
• The application of new polymers in electronics, actuators, coatings, green energy, and energy storage.

We are pleased to invite authors to submit manuscripts to this Special Issue

Prof. Dr. Catalin Zaharia
Dr. Ionut-Cristian Radu
Guest Editors

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