New Trends in Polymeric and Biocomposite Material Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2022) | Viewed by 10330
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymeric products; biocomposite materials; biocomposite products; biodegradable polymers; structural applications on biocomposites; structural applications on biopolymers; virtual design; crashworthiness; mechanical characterization of materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The composite is the millennium strategy for the future of human existence. A well-organized social structure, social composite or nature–natural composite is the road to success.
The biopolymers and the biocomposites through which a product is intelligently recreated starting from the existential principle of life represent the natural engineering solution of life in the conditions of a dynamic globalized system with unpredictable demands.
According to the strategies of engineering existence adapted to an existential dynamism, the engineering directions for the development of the field of engineering of bioplastic and biocomposite products are taken into account.
Materials’ progressive substitution using biodegradable polymers and biobased polymers for circular economy is now wide diffused, with applications using bioplastic (novel often biodegradable, i.e. PLA, PHA, PBS, PBAT, starch blends, etc.), bioplastic durable drop-ins (bio-PET, bio-PE, bio-PA, bio-PUR, bio-PP) involved all the industrial world. Agriculture (mulch film), the food industry, food packaging and consumables, the packaging industry, the toy industry, household items, consumer goods, fuel cell, sports equipment without neglecting biodegradable polymers in medicine (spiral for removing lime deposition, locating pins for fracture, etc.), and additive manufacturing applications are just some examples.
Research development on biocomposites and biocomposite products concerns organic constituents of the composite product: bio-resin, reinforcing element, gel-coat, wax, and technologies of bioproducts.
Manufacturing of biocomposite products to be introduced in the circular economy is an interesting challenge for the automotive industry with energy saving in cars, the aviation industry, energy solar cell field, and sports equipment manufacture. Interface element production with green synthesis of bacterial cellulose composites could increase the mechanical performance of biocomposite products. Research on resin-fiber adhesion can lead to redefining the allowables in many structural applications composites. The current deep capability to virtualize a product design, by means of CAE, encloses all presented materials, and structural performance can be increased, while structures in general can be optimized.
Lastly, new design concepts based on biomimetic materials and products merge well with polymeric and biocomposite material applications.
Prof. Giuseppe Lamanna
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymeric products
- biocomposite materials
- biocomposite products
- biodegradable polymers
- structural applications on biocomposites
- structural applications on biopolymers
- virtual design
- mechanical characterization of materials
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