Advances in the Thermal Characterization of Polymers and Plastic Waste
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Physics and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 668
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thermal behavior; decomposition; pyrolysis; solid-state kinetics; thermodynamics of phase transitions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Material science with particular reference to polymers, polymer composites and plastic materials (waste or innovative newly synthesized ones) is usually characterized using thermal analysis techniques. Many researchers focus their interests on the study of their thermal behavior, often trying to assess a thermal stability scale among a class of different materials with related structures.
This Special Issue aims to provide a useful platform for distinguished and younger scholars to share their most recent developments on the synthesis, structural, morphological and thermal characterization of innovative and end-of life polymer-based materials, in which thermal analysis techniques (thermogravimetry, differential thermal analysis and differential scanning calorimetry and dynamic mechanical analysis) play a significant role in combination with spectroscopic, structural and computational techniques.
In particular, I address those colleagues who wish to provide deeper insights into the physico-chemical processes directly connected to the thermal treatment of polymers and/or polymer-based materials, with the aim to deliver information of utmost importance for their future innovative applications.
Dr. Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermal behavior
- thermal stability
- glass transitions
- crystallization
- pyrolysis
- pyrolysis kinetics
- plastic waste
- polymer fibers
- physical aging
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