Towards Functional and Structured Smart Polymeric Systems
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2019)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymer synthesis; self-assembly of amphiphilic copolymers; hydrogels and soft materials; surfaces/interfaces engineering research; additive manufacturing
Interests: preparation and polymerization of special monomers; functionalization of polymers with biomedical and technological interest; theoretical analysis of several aspects related to macromolecular chemistry; polymer-active compound conjugates; polymeric networks
Interests: functionalization of polymers; plasticization of PVC; polymer surfaces; polymer chemistry
Interests: functionalization of polymers; polymer chemistry; monomer synthesis; polymers with applications in the biomedical field; polymers & supercritical fluids; polymer-drug conjugates
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to gather recent advances on the preparation of functional and nano/microstructured polymeric systems. Strategies to fabricate functional structured surfaces, self-assembly processes to form functional micellar assemblies, or the formation of porous polymeric systems are a few examples of the complex polymeric systems expected to be included in this Special Issue.
Many technological breakthroughs and scientific advances have been made in the last few decades using adaptive functional polymers, in terms of structure design and characterization. For this reason, the second purpose of this Issue is also to present the latest developments in the incorporation of adaptive polymers responsive to different stimuli—physical, mechanical, chemical, and biological—with controlled and/or predicable behavior to functional and structured polymeric materials.
We encourage the authors to provide fundamental but also applied research articles.
Dr. Juan Rodríguez-Hernández
Dr. Alberto Gallardo
Dr. Helmut Reinecke
Dr. Carlos Elvira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Polymer functionalization
- Surface structuration
- Nano/micropatterning
- Hierarchical polymer structuration
- Manufacturing/self-assembly
- Smart, stimuli-responsive polymers
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