Degradation and Stability of Polymers: Strategies to Upgrade the Performance and Quality of Plastic Products and Wastes
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 640
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chemical engineering; materials technology; polymers; sustainability; membranes; plastic recycling; thermal analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The present Special Issue of Polymers is aimed at highlighting the current state of the art in the field of degradation and stability of polymers, understood in the framework of developing strategies to upgrade plastic products during service and capture the highest value from their wastes.
The stability of polymers will be approached by the proposal, testing and comprehensive discussion of novel stabilisers for aggressive service environments, ecodesign strategies or the development of innovative testing protocols to analyse stabilisation towards degradative conditions.
Degradation of polymers will be approached as a manner to recover value from plastic wastes, via mechanical and chemical recycling, considering in the latter solvolytic, energy and biological means. Structural, mechanistic and performance perspectives will be covered.
This Special Issue invites leading groups in the field to share recent findings and comprehensive reviews in this very active field of research, in order to serve as a useful source of information for researchers and technologists.
Dr. Jose D. Badia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- degradation
- stability
- recycling
- plastic waste
- upgrading
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