Polymers Assembly and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 5484
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Intermolecular interactions form the basis of the theory of the physical network of entanglements in polymer systems and substantiate the physicochemical properties of polymer materials. At the same time, low-energy non-covalent polymer–solvent interactions in synthetic polymers, until recently, were on the periphery of the attention of science in relation to high molecular weight compounds. Interest in the “structure–properties” problem in the context of the study of non-covalent bonds of macromolecules with low-molecular substances has sharply increased since the early 2000s—when the active study of supramolecular structures began. In 2016, the book Non-Covalent Interactions in the Design and Synthesis of New Compounds was published (ed. A.M. Maharramov and others) and, in 2019, under the auspices of IUPAC, the International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions (ICNI, 2019, Lisbon) started.
Nevertheless, the main contribution to the modern vision of the role of non-covalent interactions with low molecular weight compounds was made by works on organic, inorganic and organometallic synthesis and catalysis, obtaining crystals and biomaterials. At the same time, such an extensive field of knowledge as polymer materials science was practically out of sight, despite the fact that that non-covalent interactions in polymer objects are important both for understanding the mechanism of many processes and for controlling these processes.
Hence, it follows that, in order to obtain polymeric materials with certain physicochemical and, in some cases, mechanical strength characteristics, it is necessary to understand the role of non-covalent macromolecule–low-molecular substance interactions in the formation of certain structural features in synthetic polymers and especially the composite materials based on them.
Dr. Julia V. Kostina
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- non-covalent interactions
- ordering of glassy amorphous polymers
- residual solvent
- effect of low-energy interactions on the structure of polymers
