Advances in Elastomers

Dear Colleagues,

Elastomer materials are characteristic for their high elongation and (entropy) elasticity, which makes them indispensable for widespread applications in various engineering areas, medical applications or consumer goods. This Special Issue focuses on the state-of-the-art of elastomers from all aspects of their properties and applications.

The development and testing of advanced elastomers will be of particular interest. Attention will be given to various aspects of elastomers, such as increasing environmental concepts dealing with recyclability and reusability, incorporation of functional groups or additives to obtain novel functionality or an external stimuli-responsive character, bio-elastomers, or the theoretical, experimental, and analytical description of mechanisms and structure relations of the fracture behavior of elastomers.

The scope of the Special Issue encompasses frontier-of-science contributions in polymer network synthesis, experimental and theoretical physics of polymer networks, and in modeling of elastomeric solids, and new structures and functionalities incorporated into elastomers leading to enhanced properties of crosslinked elastomeric materials, among others.

Original regular papers or reviews are all welcome in this Special Issue. The official deadline for submission is 30 April 2020. We look forward to receiving your most recent results for the “Advances in Elastomers” Special Issue in Materials.

Assoc. Prof. Michal Sedlačík
Guest Editor

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