Advances in Polymeric Materials and Composites Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Polymeric materials and composites are of widespread importance in the natural and commercial world, with applications ranging from aerospace engineering to drug delivery. Extensive research efforts have been underway for centuries to harness the power of polymers as nature does. However, we are still far from achieving anything close to smart materials such as artificial cells and self-healing materials.

The demand for smart materials with increased performance coupled with cost-effectiveness and sustainability drives both basic and applied polymeric materials research. Most commercially used polymeric materials are composites. Composites often exhibit emergent structural and flow properties that are superior to those of the constituent polymers. In this  context,  our  Special  Issue is  intended to  provide a platform  for  sharing  recent  advances  in  basic as well as applied research of polymeric materials  and composite materials with  relevant  topics  including,  but  not  limited to:

• Rheological and dynamic mechanical characteristics of polymers;
• Biological motor-driven active polymer composites;
• Self-healing and self-shaping polymeric materials;
• Polymeric materials for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications;
• Advances towards sustainable polymer industry with net-zero emissions;
• Understanding the effect of polymer topology on the macroscale properties;
• Numerical modeling and simulations of the polymer blends and composites;
• Advances in the manufacturing of polymeric components for smart materials.

We would like to invite high-quality papers from academia and industry to emphasize the advances in the pursuit of smart polymeric materials.

Dr. Karthik Reddy Peddireddy
Dr. Venkata Subba Rao Jampani
Guest Editors

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