Polymer Thin Films: From Fundamentals to Multifunctional Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Membranes and Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 4641
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polyelectrolyte; surfactants; interfaces; polymer; layer by layer; colloids; emulsions; interfacial rheology; biophysics
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Interests: interfaces; polymer; colloids; foams; neutron scattering; interfacial rheology; biophysics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The understanding of the most fundamental bases of the fabrication of polymer thin films and how to modulate their physico-chemical properties has undergone a spectacular growth in the last decades. This may be explained considering that the confinement effect associated with the reduction of the dimension drives to physics phenomena that appear far from that what is found for bulk polymer. The analysis of such new physics aspects of the performance of polymer forming thin mono- and/or multilayers is essential for exploiting their potential in different applications. These include applications in nanotechnology, catalysis, biomedicine, conversion and storage of energy, etc.
The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a comprehensive perspective to the current understanding on the study of polymer thin films, including both experimental and theoretical approach to the study of polymer thin films. Therefore, the special issue is open to interdisciplinary contributions trying to push the limits of the knowledge beyond the current state of the art.
Dr. Eduardo Guzmán
Dr. Armando Maestro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Film forming
- polyelectrolyte multilayers
- Langmuir films
- glass transition
- thin film
- polymer
- deposition methods
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