Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Sustainable Plastic Materials
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2026 | Viewed by 1476
Special Issue Editor
Interests: stereospecific polymerization; vinyl monomers; OLED devices; fluorescent polymers; microplastic analysis; plastic recycling; photocatalysis; absorption and emission spectroscopy; NMR spectroscopy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although the large-scale production and use of synthetic polymers have led to a marked improvement in the quality of life for people, their impact on the natural environment has been catastrophic. The continuous increase in non-biodegradable plastic products placed on the market and, above all, their indiscriminate and reckless disposal are slowly drowning our planet in a sea of plastic.
Currently, one of the most important challenges is to guarantee a sustainable future for our planet and for new generations. To achieve this goal, polymer research is developing new and efficient methods for recycling used non-biodegradable plastics and designing new sustainable polymeric materials from renewable resources using green methods.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a global vision of the state of the art and recent research progress in the field of new sustainable polymeric materials.
Research topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Developing new methods for recycling and reusing used plastic.
- Recent progress on the synthesis and characterization of biodegradable polymers deriving from renewable sources.
- Designing new sustainable polymeric materials.
- Applications of new sustainable polymeric materials.
Dr. Stefania Pragliola
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable materials
- biodegradable polymers
- plastic recycling
- microplastic analysis
- fluorescent polymers
- renewable resources
- absorption and emission spectroscopy
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