High Performance Rubber Materials: From Fundamental to Advanced Applied Science
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Networks and Gels".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 1737
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Interests: development of high-performance rubber composites; synthesis and modification of graphene materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Rubber has been a strategic material since its discovery, although it was originally obtained exclusively from the Hevea brasiliensis tree. Today, different types of rubber are obtained by different synthetic routes, mainly by copolymerization. In addition to conventional rubbers, there are also specialty rubbers, such as fluorosilicones and fluoroelastomers. The advent of nanotechnology and advanced characterization, not only at the basic science level but also at the applied level, has opened up a multitude of possibilities. This is due to the incorporation of nanomaterials as nanometric fillers. In this way, rubber materials with special properties are being developed for use in various high-tech applications.
Of particular interest are flexible materials with properties such as high permittivity, electrical conductivity, improved mechanical properties, resistance and shielding against ionizing radiation, and shielding against electromagnetic interference.
In this context, a Special Issue is proposed to focus on the development of rubber materials with advanced properties for high-tech applications, which will undoubtedly have several potential applications in technological areas of interest such as energy, aerospace, and electronics, among others.
Dr. Héctor Aguilar Bolados
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rubbers and elastomers
- conventional rubbers
- specialty rubbers
- nanomaterials
- polymer composites
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