Developments in Polymer Processing and Rheology
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 153
Special Issue Editor
Interests: application of phase separation, scattering and image analysis techniques for blends; optical characterization of polymer surface; multi-scale dispersion; characterization of polymer nanocomposites; research on high-performance polymer composites; rheological study of polymer materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rheology is the science of mechanics to understanding the interrelationships between stresses, strains, and their rates. It is an important tool to understand and instruct polymer processing. It is also an important tool to relate the construction of polymers and their properties. For polymers in the form of long macromolecules, the flexibility of polymer chains provides novel features in rheology, interconnected with polymer physics: configurations and conformations of macromolecules, long relaxation times and their spectra, high elastic deformations, memory effects, and so on. A lot of constitutive rheological equations have been developed, which allow for the prediction of basic rheological behavior of polymers. However, with the appearance of novel polymers such as the macromolecules of complex shapes, chemical and physical blends as well as polymer composites and nanocomposites have led to the development of new rheological approaches and new theories to describe their flowing behavior.
Thus, some novel special rheology behavior has been found in polymer science. Both the fundamentals and applications concerning polymer processing will be considered in this Special Issue.
Dr. Haiqing Hu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rheology of polymer melts and solutions
- rheology mechanism
- polymer processing
- composites and nanocomposites
- elastomers
