Multifunctional Supramolecular Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 3575
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structure and dynamics of complex polymers; supramolecular and different architectures; glass transition and dynamical behavior of soft materials; small angle scattering; neutron spin-echo spectroscopy; rheology; dielectric relaxation spectroscopy; differential scanning calorimetry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multifunctional supramolecular polymers represent a very promising class of systems with superior versatility compared to their covalent polymeric counterparts. They offer exciting new opportunities, as they can not only include stimuli-responsive structures with reversible tunable properties, but they can also hold self-healing properties with applications in the food industry, in cost-efficient processes or biomedical areas. Nevertheless, many open questions must be tackled in order to understand their complex behavior and exploit their large potential. Therefore, to define strategies for designing novel materials amenable to contemporary needs, a fundamental understanding of their very complex and diverse multiscale supramolecular structure and dynamics is needed.
The objective of this Special Issue is to present original research and reviews focused on the synergy of synthetic chemistry, physical characterization, and modeling on the complex behavior of multifunctional supramolecular polymers.
Dr. Ana Rita Elias BrásDr. Ana Arizaga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Functional polymers
- Supramolecular assembly
- Polymeric structures
- Soft materials
- Stimuli-responsive
- Additive manufacturing
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