Fabrication and Application of Biopolymer-Based Advanced Functional Materials, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Circular and Green Sustainable Polymer Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2025) | Viewed by 2440
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biopolymer-based composites; drug carriers; smart biopolymers
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Dear Colleagues,
Further to the success of the Special Issue of Polymers “Fabrication and Application of Biopolymer-Based Advanced Functional Materials”, we are delighted to reopen the Special Issue, now entitled “Fabrication and Application of Biopolymer-Based Advanced Functional Materials, 2nd Edition”.
In recent years, biopolymers, such as polysaccharides, proteins, and nucleic acids, have been employed for the fabrication of functional materials due to their excellent biodegradability, biocompatibility, and modification feasibility. Biopolymer-based advanced functional materials with biodegradability, drug/molecule encapsulation, bioactivity, responsiveness, sterilization, air/moisture isolation, and fluorescence show a wide range of applications, including for use as bioplastics; drug delivery systems; biomaterials for tissue engineering, biosensors, or motors; and packaging.
Recently, there has been growing interest in fabrication methods, such as green and facile chemistry methods to modify biopolymers; self-assembly or spray drying to make microbeads; additive manufacturing to endow controllable 3D structures; foaming to produce pores; hydrothermal/solvothermal reactions to fabricate carbon nanomaterials; etc. The different strategies can result in biopolymer-based composites having various chemical, structural, and functional qualities
This Special Issue aims to collect both original research and review articles that focus on the progress made in the fabrication of advanced functional materials and in applications of biopolymers and related composites.
Dr. Xiaoyun Li
Dr. Jihai Cai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biopolymers
- modification
- hydrothermal synthesis
- composites
- bioplastic
- drug carriers
- biomaterials
- sensors
- packaging
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