Novel Polymeric Materials for High-Performance and Biomedical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The development of novel polymeric materials represents an innovative and promising approach that plays an essential role in solving many of today’s global challenges, from environment to health.

Currently, our modern lifestyle is dependent to a large extent on the use of polymer-based high-performance materials. These are designed to accomplish the expected performance and multi-function objectives required in a large variety of environmental applications (devices, sensors, coatings, insulation, gas separations and water treatement) and biomedical applications (biosensors, wound healing, drug delivery systems, tissue engineering, materials/surface with antimicrobial properties). New theoretical and experimental physico-chemical approaches, surface models, and polymer engineering concepts are combined to design polymer-based high-performance materials with well defined functionality and multiple applications. Most are innovative materials with excellent performance, such as ionomers, semiconductors, self-assembling systems, hydrogels, micro- and nanofibers, films/membranes, and capsules.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the latest developments in polymer materials (natural and synthetic) and polymer composites with properties enabling them to be used in high-performance and biomedical applications and encompassing topics situated at the interdisciplinary interface of polymer chemistry, physics and biochemistry.

The topics of this issue can be focused on an analytical approach of the experimental and theoretical aspects of designing, preparing, processing, characterizing and practical implications of polymer/composite systems from the macro- to the nanoscale. It can also discuss the recent advancements, research, and development prospects about polymer-based high-performance materials providing new solutions for advanced technologies.

We are honoured to invite you to contribute a manuscript (full article, short communication or review paper) to this Special Issue.

Dr. Alexandra Bargan
Dr. Anca Filimon
Guest Editors

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