Polymer Particles:Characterization and Application
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 3642
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Interests: microfluidics; colloids and interface science; photonic structures; emulsions; capsules; hydrogels
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Interests: structural colors; colloidal assembly; bioinspired materials; polymer supraparticles
Interests: tough hydrogel; composite hydrogel; structure-property relationship; functional hydrogel; toughening and strengthening mechanism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymeric microparticles have found numerous applications in many fields and attracted a huge amount of research attention in the past two decades. Microparticles with multifunctionalities are even more popular among researchers from interdisciplinary fields. Assisted by traditional methods, newly emerging technologies or even a combination of the two, plenty of effort has been devoted to developing microparticles with different shapes, morphologies, hierarchy structures, and even different pendant chemical groups, rendering microparticles with diverse functionalities. Taking advantage of the synergy of these different features, the resulting polymeric microparticles can be further potentially utilized not only to advance the developments of new objects, from advanced microsensors and cutting-edge microdevices to supercomputing or gene editing but also tackle the most challenging problems and threats our humans are facing now, covering hygiene, the energy crisis, climate change, etc. These diverse applications have profound meanings and play essential yet important roles in many emerging research directions.
This Special Issue on “Multifunctional Polymer Microstructure Particles” is devoted to the dissemination of high-quality original research articles or comprehensive reviews on the most recent developments in this interdisciplinary field.
We welcome polymer microstructural particles with diverse applications. Therefore, broad potential topics will be included but not limited to the following:
- Synthetic of polymer microparticles;
- Techniques of manufacturing of polymeric microparticles;
- Tunable sizes, shapes, and morphologies of polymer microparticles;
- Polymeric microparticles with novel optical properties;
- Stimulus-responsive polymer microparticles;
- Polymer microparticles for energy-related applications;
- Biomimetic polymer microparticles, such as artificial cells based on polymer microparticles;
- Polymer micro-objects for drug delivery and controlled release;
- Polymer microparticles for CO2 capturing and hydrogen storage.
Prof. Dr. Yuandu Hu
Dr. Ming Xiao
Dr. Yiwan Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer particle synthesis
- tunable size, shape, and morphology
- biomimetics
- control and release
- energy-related
- stimuli-responsive
- CO2 capturing
- hydrogen storage
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