Exploring the Glass Transition in Polymer-Based Materials: Properties, Applications, and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2027 | Viewed by 200
Editor
Interests: structure, thermodynamics, and dynamics of anomalous polymer melts and glasses; crosslinked polymer networks and vitrimers; activated transports of penetrants/tracers in polymer-based materials; glass transition and ion transports in polyelectrolyte; macroscopic topological glass transition; theory, simulation, and artificial intelligence in polymer physics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Equilibrium amorphous materials such as polymer melts, permanent crosslinked networks, vitrimers, associative polymers, and polyelectrolytes have a wide range of applications. However, it remains a significant challenge in condensed matter physics, physical chemistry, biophysics, and materials science and engineering to understand the generic and chemically specific aspects of structures, thermodynamics, and activated dynamics in diverse polymer glass-forming liquids and glasses, the activated transport of penetrants in condensed phases, and the macromolecular transport and vitrification in polymer liquids of topologically compacted nano-scale polymers (such as rings, stars, glycogen, micro-gels, micelles, and globular single-chain nanoparticles). A common theme has been the development of new microscopic understandings, with quantitative applications to experiments, of the complex dynamical and structural behaviors of amorphous colloidal, molecular, and polymeric materials by synergistically combining experiments, multi-scale computational methods, molecular dynamics simulations, microscopic statistical mechanical theories, and artificial intelligence, with the aim of building a unified predictive understanding of the nature of microscopic structures and activation dynamics and guiding the design of new materials with good performance. Nonequilibrium anomalous polymeric systems, ranging from highly asymmetric binary colloidal suspensions to polymer nanoparticles and thin films, are also of interest.
Dr. Baicheng Mei
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- glass transition
- glass-forming liquids
- deep glasses
- crosslinked networks
- vitrimers and associative polymers
- activation relaxation of segments
- relationship between structures, thermodynamics, and dynamics in polymers
- activated transports of small particles in anomalous polymeric membranes
- polyelectrolyte glasses
- topological glasses of macromolecules
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