Functional Polymer Materials: Development, Modification, and Application

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, “Functional Polymer Materials: Development, Modification, and Application”, highlights recent progress in polymers designed for specific, high-performance tasks. We welcome work that covers both fundamentals and applications spanning design, synthesis, structural modification, and performance optimization across a range of technologies. We are especially interested in innovative chemical, physical, and radiation-based approaches that add or enhance properties, such as mechanical strength, thermal stability, biocompatibility, conductivity, and sustainability.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, functional and smart polymers; nanostructured and hybrid polymer composites; bio-based and biodegradable polymers; stimuli-responsive materials; and polymers for energy storage, catalysis, sensors, electronics, and biomedical applications. Studies that connect structure–property–function relationships using theoretical modeling, advanced characterization, and process engineering are particularly encouraged.

This Special Issue aims to bring together interdisciplinary research that links materials chemistry, polymer physics, and real-world applications to drive next-generation functional materials. We invite both original research articles and comprehensive reviews that address current challenges and outline future directions in functional polymer materials.

Dr. Ananta Adhikari
Guest Editor

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