Smart Responsive Polymer Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2023) | Viewed by 496
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart responsive polymer materials, a series of active polymer materials that can respond to the external environment, are widely used to form sensors and actuators nowadays. Their unique ability to respond to triggering stimuli, including physical and chemical/chemical, can be obtained by material design on the molecular to macroscopic scale. These designs can be based on the underlying molecular structure, conformation of polymer chains, and nano/microstructure of the materials. The emerging quest for smart systems and devices employed in advanced technologies has also greatly promoted the development of new polymer chains and new device designs and has stimulated mechanism research on these polymers, including advanced characterization such as synchrotron radiation, neutron scattering, etc.
This Special Issue is devoted to the most recent research on these topics, covering new polymer chains and structural designs, as well as new applications and new understandings of the underlying mechanisms of smart responsive polymer materials.
Dr. Yunlong Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- responsive polymers
- actuators and sensors
- functional polymer materials
- polymer characterization
- chain conformation
- nano/microstructure
- polymer composite
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