Advances in Self-Assembly of Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 1671
Special Issue Editor
2. Large Industrial Reactor Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
Interests: polymer electrolyte for all-solid-battery; polymer binder for silicon battery; polymer applied in oilfield chemistry; crude oil purification and high value-added utilization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The focus of this Special Issue is on the advances in self-assembly of polymers and polymer multi-phase systems. Both experimental and theoretical investigations of the structure formation of polymers in solution or in multi-phase are welcome. Polymers may be linear, star-like, cyclic or of any other topology. The polymers are of controlled dispersity and may be amorphous, liquid-crystalline or crystalline.
We are seeking papers that discuss novel morphologies, including very small or very large periodic structures of already well-known morphologies, their use as templates for other materials, the process of self-assembly from disordered to ordered phases or the transition between different ordered phases in thin films: bulk, in solution, or at the interface between two other phases (such as in solution, blends, or multi-phase). Polymerization-induced self-assembly and the influence of, e.g., external fields, temperature, or vapors, on the reproducible structure formation, non-equilibrium structures and the structure-property relationship are of particular interest. Their applications in various fields, including chemical engineering, materials, biology, medicine and energy storage, are also of interest to this Special Issue.
Dr. Jun Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymer morphology
- multi-phase system
- metastable structures
- non-equilibrium structures
- polymer blends
- microphase transitions
- structure–property relationship
- self-assembly
- applications
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