Advanced Polymeric Fiber Materials: Electrospinning, Chemical Synthesis, and Molecular Self Assembly

Dear Colleagues,

Polymer fiber is a one-dimensional soft material, exhibiting unique physicochemical properties and characteristics, such as high surface-to-mass ratio, high porosity with excellent pore interconnectivity, flexibility with reasonable mechanical strength, and ease of interacting with other organic and inorganic materials. Technologies on polymer fibers have largely influenced the field of materials science and engineering to create new types of material platforms in a wide range of applications. To date, the technologies on fiber formations with functional polymers, structural and morphological controls, and functionality incorporation using physical blending or chemical reactions have enabled tremendous and rapid advances in various fields in biomedical, energy, environmental, and electronic engineering by accompanying fundamental and applied experimental and theoretical studies. All these achievements should be explored and merged for the next-generation materials toward ideal target properties.

This Special Issue aims to publish research works, reviews, and communications related to the various advanced technologies for generating polymeric fiber materials, which focus on – but are not restricted to the (i) various methods such as electrospinning, chemical synthesis, and molecular self-assembly methods for generating polymeric fibers; (ii) polymeric fibers for environmental, energy, biological, and optical applications; (iii) other polymer fiber-related nanocomposites and devices.

Dr. Wenliang Song
Guest Editor

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