Simulation and Calculation of Polymer Composite Materials—2nd Edition
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Physics and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editors
2. College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Interests: computational materials; machine learning; molecular dynamics; multiscale modeling; inverse design; disordered solids; polymer composites; glassy materials; porous materials; mechanical metamaterials
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Interests: composite materials; polymer encapsulation; polymer-reinforced concrete; thermal regulation
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Interests: polymer composites; fibre-reinforced composites; processing–structure-property relationships; polymer rheology; crystalline structure; morphology development; mechanical properties; advance manufacturing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to their disordered out-of-equilibrium nature, polymeric solids exhibit a complex structure–property relationship that challenges the rational design of polymer materials and their products with tailored properties. By adding extra phases into the polymeric matrix, polymer composites feature an increasing extent of structural complexity, which, in turn, significantly enhances the tunability of their properties but renders their rational design even harder. With the recent advances in computational materials science, physics- and data-driven modeling—including simulations and machine learning—offer an attractive opportunity to revisit these challenges facing polymer composite design.
In this Special Issue, we invite contributions that address several aspects pertaining to the modeling and inverse design of polymer composites, including those that decipher the structure–property relationship of polymeric solids by conventional modeling tools (such as molecular dynamics simulations and finite element analysis), develop new simulation schemes to predict polymer properties by simplifying the underlying physics, build surrogate simulation engines of polymer composites by machine learning, and combine high-throughput simulations and machine learning to accelerate the discovery of novel polymer materials. More broadly, any original contributions (including reviews) relevant to rationalizing the computational modeling of polymer composites and their inverse design are welcome. We hope this Special Issue will modestly help stimulate new developments in that direction.
Dr. Han Liu
Dr. Zhenhua Wei
Dr. Kuzmanović Maja
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer composites
- polymeric solids
- mechanical properties
- structural morphology
- molecular dynamics simulation
- finite element analysis
- multiscale modeling
- constitutive modeling
- machine learning
- inverse design
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