Green Polymer Foam from Sustainable Renewable Resources and Its Applications
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 November 2023) | Viewed by 3893
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymeric materials; nanomaterials; material characterization; polymers; nanomaterials synthesis; nanostructured materials; sem analysis; materials; material characteristics; materials testing
Special Issue Information
This Special Issue, “Green Polymer Foam from Sustainable Renewable Resources and Its Applications”, can be seen as one of those actions taken in order to pursue the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions for industrial production lines by 2030, promoting the divulgation of new ideas and findings to be included in the paradigm of the renewed sensitivity for what concerns environmental issue such as global warming and climate change.
The last centuries, also called the Anthropocene by some scientists due to the various human activities designed for the evolution and growth of our society, have had a significant influence on Earth, in particular on its biodiversity, geomorphology, climate, biogeography, and stratigraphy. For this reason, following the stream of the recovered awareness of the health of the environment and what our habitat will look like in a few years from now, worrying for the next generations, a shift in the behavior of people has happened worldwide, giving rise to new ecological policies and enabling the production and studies of environmentally friendly polymer products obtained starting from renewable and sustainable reagents.
In this view, polymer foams represent a great part of the consumer industry. Nowadays, the majority of the production (precursors, catalysts, blowing agents, etc.) draws directly on oil production, which ensures the feedstock, as well as the required attributes of the final product, especially in terms of thermal conductivity, aging behavior, and mechanical properties.
For these reasons, the present Special Issue wishes to give a voice to the research in this field. It is open to original, cross-pollinated, and multidisciplinary articles and reviews dealing with such subjects including the design and development of innovative foam materials; theoretical modeling for cutting-edge functionalities, components, and their technologies; as well as applications under relevant conditions at the prototype level for aerospace, automotive, building, and transport networks.
Dr. Giuseppe Cesare Lama
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- green chemistry
- green polymer foams
- thermal conductivity
- mechanical properties
- sustainability
- renewable resources
- environmentally friendly materials
- multi-functional foams
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