Polymeric Materials: Surfaces, Interfaces and Bioapplications II

Dear Colleagues,

Further to the success of the Special Issue of Materials “Polymeric Materials: Surfaces, Interfaces and, Bioapplications”, we are delighted to reopen the Special Issue, now entitled “Polymeric Materials: Surfaces, Interfaces and, Bioapplications II”.

Polymeric materials—either synthetic or natural—play an essential role in everyday life, especially those dedicated to bioapplications, such as medical devices, implants, drug delivery systems, active food packaging, agricultural films for farming and crop protection, biosensors, or bioremediation, among others.

This Special Issue aims to cover all the aspects related to recent innovations on surfaces, interfaces, and bioapplications of polymeric materials. Special emphasis will be placed on the influence of chemical or physical surface modification on the inferred properties, such as wettability, stimuli-responsiveness, compatibility, adhesion, toxicity, etc. Besides, contributions analyzing the effect of interfaces and interphases of polymeric blends, hybrids, or (nano)composites on their physico-chemical and biological properties are also appreciated. We also intend to include functional and protective coatings as well as thin films for biological applications in this Special Issue. Finally, we would like to emphasize that this Special Issue is widely inclusive, so we expect a large number of works to fall within its scope.

Therefore, it is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Dr. Marta Fernández-García
Dr. Alexandra Muñoz-Bonilla
Dr. Coro Echeverría
Dr. Águeda Sonseca
Dr. Marina P. Arrieta
Guest Editors

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