Complex Polymer in Complex Environment
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Physics and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2020) | Viewed by 3167
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High-precision synthesis of architecturally complex polymers (dendrimers, stars, rings, bottlebrush, etc) produces systems with multiple applications, both as single objects (nanocarriers, rheological agents, drug delivery systems, etc.) or as building blocks for the formation of complex soft matter phases. Their complex molecular topology challenges the conventional scenarios of reference models such as hard sphere fluids or linear polymer chains. Two archetypical examples of the former are: (i) the static and dynamic anomalies in solutions of soft colloids; (ii) the dramatic effect of branching or absence of chain ends on the rheological behavior.
This Special Issue will present theoretical and experimental contributions to the fundamentals of structure and dynamics of polymers with complex architectures in complex environments. These include behavior in crowded solutions, confinement, or reduced dimensionality, under shear flow or external fields, among others. The investigated properties may cover topics such as scaling behavior, crystallization, phase separation, self-assembly, glass formation, rheological properties, etc.
Though most of the contributions are expected to be original work, high-quality reviews of the state of the art are also welcome.
Dr. Angel J. Moreno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Polymer dendrimers
- Bottlebrush/star polymers
- Self-assembly
- Polymer crystallization
- Polymer phase separation
- Polymer rheological properties
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