Polymer Self-Assembly, Phase Behaviour and Rheology
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 448
Special Issue Editors
Interests: oxidative stress monitoring; reactive oxygen species; analytical and physico-chemical methods; electron paramagnetic resonance; non-invasive environmental monitoring; spectroscopic methods
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Interests: amphiphilic aggregates; nanogels; self-assembly; physicochemical properties; light and neutron scattering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The self-assembly of polymers and, more in general, macromolecules, offers a wide array of potential applications in several technological fields.
This Special Issue of Polymers aims to describe the current state of the art in the description of self-assembly processes of amphiphilic polymers and biopolymers in solution, as well as the phase behaviour and rheological properties of such systems. The definition of physicochemical properties and structural organization of polymer chains is critical to designing polymerics, which can be further used in many technological fields, including food, agricultural and environmental science, drug delivery and pharmaceutics, cosmeceutics, and art restoration.
This collection also proposes contributions presented by international authors to the 37th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS 2023) in Naples (Italy) from the 3rd to 8th September 2023 in Naples (Italy), as organized by the University of Naples Federico II and CSGI (https://www.ecis2023.eu/).
Moreover, we welcome papers from leading groups in the field with the aim of giving a balanced view of the recent advances in this research topic.
Prof. Dr. Gerardino D’Errico
Prof. Dr. Luigi Paduano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- amphiphilic macromolecules
- gels
- nano- and micro-gels
- rheology
- structural organization
- phase behaviour
- self-assembly
- physicochemical methods
