Smart Polymers and Their Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2022) | Viewed by 12692
Special Issue Editor
Interests: dielectrics; piezoelectrics; smart plastics; low-temperature synthesis of ceramics
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Dear Colleagues,
Smart Polymers are a hugely popular and innovative branch of smart materials due to their unique and highly adaptive properties. In comparison to ceramic and metallic-based smart materials, these materials possess the added functionality of being flexible, which presents exciting and innovative areas of scientific research and ingenious future applications. Although smart polymers already present numerous advantages, there are still numerous opportunities in the compositional design, synthesis, blending, and engineering of smart polymeric systems. This Special Issue on “Smart Polymers and Their Applications’’ endeavors to provide an opportunity for a comprehensive collection of the latest advances and novel works on experimental as well as simulation- and modeling-based works, development of synthetic approaches, structure–property correlations and their mechanism, and the current and emerging applications of smart and functional polymers The issue covers smart and functional polymers for a diverse range of applications, involving synthetic chemistry, materials science, and biomedical technology.
Dr. Jibran Khaliq
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymerization or post-polymerization modification methods
- stimuli-responsive polymers
- shape memory polymers
- self-healing polymers
- polymers for industrial catalysis
- polymers for water or effluent treatment
- polymers for sensing, separation, and purification
- polymers for fabrication
- renewable polymer materials used for agriculture
- functional polymers used in food science
- polymers for information storage
- electronics and energy conversion
- polymer composites: piezoelectric, ferroelectric, thermoelectric polymer, their blends and composites
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