Artificial Intelligence in Polymers

Dear Colleagues,

Polymers and polymer-based composites are used in a wide range of engineering applications. However, due to the vastness of the chemical and structural space, traditional intuition-driven and/or trial-and-error approaches used to discover polymers with target properties are expensive and time-consuming. With the advanced development of artificial intelligence technologies, the use of machine learning (ML) has shown great potential in data-driven design and the discovery of polymers, also known as polymer informatics. This Special Issue aims to delve into recent advancements in ML-assisted design of polymers and polymer-based composites with exceptional properties such as electrical insulation, thermal stability and mechanical strength. Topics of interest cover various aspects of polymer informatics including polymer dataset generation (experiments and high-throughput computations), machine-readable fingerprinting of polymer structures, ML algorithms describing structure–property relationships, and rational design protocols.

Dr. Ming-Xiao Zhu
Prof. Dr. Guochang Li
Dr. Jianyi Xue
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Polymers is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.