Functional Polymer Materials: Design, Synthesis and Application

Dear Colleagues,

Functional polymer materials are a type of polymer materials with special functions, such as optical polymers, thermal management polymers, magnetic polymers, electrical conductive polymers, flame-retardant polymers, biomedical polymers, and environmentally degradable polymers. With fast-growing demand in various application fields, functional polymer materials are current research hotspots and are being gradually developed in terms of intelligence (such as self-healing materials and stimuli-responsive materials) and multifunction (such as shape-memory conductive materials and photothermal materials). Functional polymer materials can be designed on the molecular level with functional groups and/or by introducing functional fillers into materials. Apart from various organic synthesis and polymerization methods, special processing, supramolecular chemistry, and dynamic cross-linking are newly arising technologies contributing to the fabrication of functional polymer materials. Their potential applications are widely covered in machinery, information technology, biomedicine and other fields.

This Special Issue on “Functional Polymer Materials: Design, Synthesis, and Application” is devoted to the most recent research in this interdisciplinary field covering the latest advances in the design, synthesis, and applications of functional polymer materials. Both high-quality original research articles and comprehensive reviews on cutting-edge developments are welcome.

Dr. Dong Yu Zhu
Dr. Yingchun Liu
Dr. Maoping Lu
Guest Editors

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