Laser Treatment of High-Polymer Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Laser treatment is a flexible and potential method for obtaining a wide range of controlled physical and chemical modifications of high-polymer materials. Lasers generating wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet to infrared spectra, with pulse durations from nanosecond, picosecond to femtosecond temporal domains, can be used for ablation, patterning, inducing various surface modifications of polymers in the micro- and nanoscales, and for fine transferring of polymeric materials from bulk to thin films. Processing with various laser techniques leads to extending the applications of high polymers in almost all industrial, technological, biotechnological and biomedicine fields, e.g., semiconductor manufacturing and coatings, aircraft constructions, waveguides, storage devices, optoelectronic devices, sensors and biosensors, and neural implants and neural interface devices in neural prostheses and hybrid bionic systems.

This Special Issue covers fundamental, applied, and technological aspects of the laser treatment of high-polymer materials, aiming at developing novel applications in the fields of optics, photonics, energy, micro- and nanoelectronics, biomedicine, and materials science.

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers and reviews would be greatly appreciated.

Dr. Nadya Stankova
Dr. Daniel Sola
Guest Editors

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