Current Developments in Glassy Polymer Physics
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 156
Editor
Interests: polymer physics; glass transition; brittle-to-ductile transition; damaging mechanisms in polymers; ultimate behavior of polymer materials; statistical physics; soft condensed matter physics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue devoted to glassy polymer physics. This is a fundamental research topic that also has a considerable impact on the mechanical and ultimate properties of solid polymers.
The physics of glassy polymers has made enormous progress over the past 25 years. These advances have been made possible by the development of new experiments involving the dynamics of confined polymers, the dynamics of fluorescent probes, in situ dielectric spectroscopy or NMR spectroscopy, or calorimetric experiments. New techniques combining atomic force microscopy and dielectric or Raman spectroscopy are being developed to study the properties of polymers at the local scale. Studies on ultimate properties and the corresponding microscopic mechanisms have benefited from advances in electron microscopy, small-angle scattering techniques and acoustic detection.
For all these issues, experimental progress has been accompanied by theoretical developments and numerical simulation studies that have led to a better understanding of relaxation processes, mechanical and ultimate properties.
This Special Issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research in the field of glassy polymer physics that addresses some of these issues in this spirit.
Dr. Didier R. Long
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- glassy polymer physics
- mechanical and ultimate properties
- Tg in confinement
- theory and numerical simulations
- dynamical studies
- calorimetry
- relaxation mechanisms
- damaging mechanisms
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