Mechanical and Rheological Behaviour of Polymer-Based Systems
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2020) | Viewed by 31690
Special Issue Editors
Interests: green composites and biocomposites; biodegradable polymers; nanocomposites; polymer blends; polymer processing; mechanical behaviour of polymer-based systems; rheological behaviour of polymer-based systems; aging of polymer-based systems
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Interests: polymer processing; mechanical behaviour of polymer-based systems; rheological behaviour of polymer-based systems; green composites; biocomposites; nanocomposites; biodegradable polymers; polymer blends; degradation and recycling of polymer-based systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymer-based systems have been expanding their role and increasing in importance in current materials engineering, thanks to their outstanding versatility, which allows one to prepare new materials with tailored properties for the most varied applications. However, the first problems, which need to be overcome when designing new polymer-based products, regard processability. This particularly applies to thermoplastic polymers and can be further complicated by the presence of multiple phases, such as in the case of polymer blends, polymer composites containing fillers in the form of particles or short fibers, etc. Therefore, rheology plays a fundamental role in investigating the processability of new polymer-based systems, and rheological characterization requires more and more advanced techniques and interpretations of the results. This is not limited to thermoplastic systems but can apply also to thermoset resins and related composites (even containing, for instance, long fibers). At the same time, predicting and optimizing the processability of polymer-based systems is one of the fundamental aspects, another one being related to the mechanical properties of the obtained products. Depending on the final application, adequate mechanical properties (Young’s modulus, tensile strength, elongation at break, flexural modulus, impact strength, etc.) may be required. It may be often fundamental to find an optimal balance between several mechanical properties.
This Special Issue intends to assess the state-of-the-art and the recent advances in the field of the mechanical and rheological behaviour of polymer-based systems, focusing on effects related to new formulations, the presence of fillers, etc., as well as on the optimization of characterization techniques and the interpretation of results.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue on the Mechanical and Rheological Behaviour of Polymer-Based Systems. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Dr. Marco Morreale
Prof. Dr. Francesco Paolo La Mantia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rheology
- mechanical properties
- processing
- polymer-based systems
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