Current Challenges to Produce Functional Polymer Films and Surfaces with Innovations in Their Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 579
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Adhesion; functional polymers; surfaces; lignin
* Associate Professor
Interests: Polymeric biomaterials; implants; supercritical CO2 processing; drug delivery
* Associate Professor
Interests: polymer nanocomposites; rheology; graphene; polymer blends; block copolymers.
* Associate Professor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Functional polymer films and surfaces are materials of great interest for biomedical, automotive, and packaging applications, among others. Over the last few years, significant efforts have been dedicated to the development of polymer films with improved adhesion, barrier properties, electrical conductivity, drug-releasing control, tissue engineering, and self-healing behavior. These challenges have led to the establishment of methods and strategies to obtain functional polymers with novel properties and responses. In this context, this Special Issue focuses on leading research on functional polymer films and surfaces through i. the incorporation of nanoparticles (graphene, carbon nanotubes, 2D nanomaterials, etc.), materials from renewable resources (lignins, cellulose, chitosan, etc.) and functional microcapsules; ii. polymer surface treatments; iii. supercritical CO2 processing and layer-by-layer assembly; iv. blending, synthesis, and tuning of biodegradable polymers; and v. functional polymer applications. Therefore, we invite research papers and reviews highlighting the development of functional materials and related processes, synthesis, and/or applications.
Dr. Demetrio Jackson Dos Santos
Dr. Mathilde Champeau
Dr. Danilo Justino Carastan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- functional polymers
- polymeric multilayers
- nanoparticles
- renewable materials
- supercritical CO2
- biodegradable materials
- polymer surface treatments
- interfaces
- layer-by-layer
- microcapsules
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