Dispersion, Assembly and Crystallization of Functional Components within Polymer Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Physics and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 4636
Special Issue Editor
Interests: epitaxial crystallization and organic/inorganic hybrid composites; green energy materials; liquid crystalline materials; organic optoelectronic materials; phase behavior, organization of organic molecules, and polymer physics; wide angle X-ray diffraction and small-angle scattering; polymer composites and solid state physics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The addition and mixing of function ingredients have been commonly adopted as an approach to enhance the properties and performance of polymer materials. Nevertheless, for functional components, like 2D molecules, inorganic crystals, and carbon allotropes, the difficulties of uniform dispersion and guided organization within materials have been the bottleneck for their unique merits to be fully harvested. This challenge has lasted for decades and remains unsolved. For additional functional components with their own chemical affinities and ordering tendencies, the assembly and crystallization are likely to advance in disparate manners upon the interactions with surrounding polymer matrix. Furthermore, phase behaviours and habits of ordering organization of host polymers are to be modified as well due to the presence of foreign components. Within multi-components materials, the interplays of involved ordering behaviours are not very clear still, and nevertheless are acknowledged able to largely adjust materials structures and properties. Studying these involved interplays should lead us to understand new knowledge and approaches of crystal engineering to develop new hybrid materials structures with desired properties unachievable by conventional materials.
This special issues of Polymers thus aims at enhancing the discussion and sharing of current progresses, discoveries, and analyses of various aspects of polymer hybrids. In addition to fundamental physics behind the evolution of hybrid materials, the studies on the changes and improvement of mechanical, optical, and electrical properties behind evolved materials structures are also pursued by this special issues. Both organic and inorganic materials have unique merits, and the strategies and knowledge able to let these merits synergistically function should illustrate the approach of creating useful hybrid materials for advanced applications.
Considering your prominent contribution in this interesting research field, I would like to cordially invite you to submit a paper to this special issue through the webpage of the journal. Research articles, review articles, perspectives, as well as communications and letters are also invited. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts are available on the journal’s website. Thank you for sharing your research and knowledge with us.
Prof. Jr-Jeng Ruan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 2D materials
- carbon nanotube
- graphene
- inorganic precursor
- graphene oxide
- methanofullerene
- phase behavior and crystallization
- organic/inorganic hybrid composites
- organic optoelectronic materials
