Molecular Insight into Polymer Dynamics
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 21
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymers represent a broad class of important materials that are actively used in our everyday life and in many current technologies. They are expected to be applied even more widely in future technologies due to their lightweight and easy processibility. We are using more polymeric materials than before as substitutes for conventional metallic materials. However, due to complicated structures and hierarchical relaxation processes, the understanding of the polymer dynamics at different time and length scales is still at the rudimentary stage. With the design and synthesis of even more emergent polymers with complicated structures and functionalities, it is more pivotal than ever to explore their fascinating dynamics. Understanding the molecular dynamics of polymers will be helpful in the rational design of the polymeric materials with tunable mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties, to name several applications.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest advances in understanding polymer dynamics through experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches. We welcome contributions that delve into the molecular mechanisms governing polymer motion, relaxation phenomena, chain entanglement, viscoelastic behavior, and structure–property relationships in both synthetic and natural polymer systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Molecular simulations and the modeling of polymer dynamics.
- Time-resolved spectroscopy and scattering techniques.
- Glass transition and segmental dynamics.
- Polymer chain diffusion, reptation, and bulk relaxation.
- Dynamics in confined and complex environments.
- Interplay between polymer dynamics and macroscopic properties.
- Polymer dynamics in complicated functional polymers, i.e., covalent adaptive network, polymerized ionic liquid, polymer nanocomposites, etc.
- Advances in instrumentation and characterization techniques.
Dr. Sirui Ge
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymer dynamics
- glass transition
- segmental relaxation
- bulk relaxation
- structure–property relationship
- functional polymers
- spectroscopy
- instrumental characterization
- simulations and modeling
- polymer diffusion
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