Preparation and Application of Sustainable Polymer Coating Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2025 | Viewed by 281
Special Issue Editor
Interests: waterborne polyurethane; polydimethylsiloxane; coating; leather/synthetic leather; textile finishing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue on sustainable polymer coatings is seeking contributions investigating low-carbon and sustainable polymer coatings derived from natural resources, waste rubber, plastics, fibre, etc., including their extraction methods, recycling and regeneration methods, disperse systems, molecular design and structural control, new insights for their application, optimizing the processing methods and parameters of polymers, the development of environmentally friendly polymers, the construction of sustainable polymer theoretical models, etc. The above list is not exhaustive; any research work or review articles on sustainable polymer coatings are welcome. We hope that these contributions will involve a variety of systems, including waterborne or solvent-free systems, linear and nonlinear polymer architectures, copolymers, semiconducting conjugated polymers, polymer networks, polymer nanocomposites, multicomponent polymer systems, and polymer coatings for textile applications.
Dr. Zhe Sun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- low carbon
- regeneration
- sustainable
- polymer
- coatings
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