Synthesis, Characterization and Environmental Assessment of Novel Polymeric Materials for Sustainable Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 2258
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polyesters; synthesis; chemical modification; thermal properties; mechanical properties; barrier properties; biodegradability; food packaging; active packaging; diffusion; permeability; bio-based and biodegradable polymers; polymers from waste; nanocomposites; biocomposites; life cycle assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
It is well known that polymers have become key materials for strategic sectors, such as packaging, transportation, building and construction, electrical and electronic, agriculture, medical and sport devices, thanks to their versatility and to their high resource efficiency. Considering the fast-growing population, the high security demand and the control of climate change, our society needs to choose the most efficient solution in order to guarantee the most sustainable development. Plastic materials and products made of plastic offer these advantages because they are extremely resource efficient during their service-life, helping us to avoid waste and consequently to save energy and to decrease CO2 emissions.
Actually, in order to reduce the environmental impact, much attention has been given to plastic obtained from renewable resources, named bio-based plastics.
In order to obtain the best engineering solution, the optimization of their properties is of crucial importance. The knowledge of their chemical, mechanical, thermal, optical and barrier properties is essential, due to the fact that these properties are strictly correlated with the intrinsic structure of the polymers such as the degree of crystallinity, crystalline/amorphous phase ratio, thermal and mechanical treatment, environment, nature of chemical groups present in the polymer, degree of crosslinking, thermal behavior, molecular weight, addition of nanoparticles, etc.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect and give an overview of the ongoing scientific and industrial research of the recent technological breakthroughs and emerging technologies developed for novel polymers, either fossil fuel-based or bio-based, for every application.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Valentina Siracusa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bio-based polymers
- biodegradable polymers
- compostable polymers
- packaging
- biomedical application
- engineering application
- structure–property relationship
- polymers from wastes
- nanocomposites
- new polymer technologies
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