Materials Properties and Engineering for Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 678
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plastic pyrolysis; plastic waste; alternative fuels; nanomaterials
Interests: materials properties and engineering, bioenergy, materials processing, testing and characterization, mechanical and corrosion behaviour of materials, biomaterials
Interests: energy from biomass; biofuels and biomaterials; biomass torrefaction; natural fibres and polymers; clean coal
Interests: chemical processes; process simulation; modelling and simulation optimization; renewable energy technologies; energy engineering; energy conversion; thermal engineering; kinetics; energy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit research papers to this Special Issue, which is dedicated to the field of materials and engineering, sustainability in materials selections, biomaterials, and biodegradable materials and their applications. Practical, experimental, analytical, application-driven, and sustainability-based innovation submissions revealing the latest findings and outputs in the field of materials processing and engineering are thereby welcomed.
Considering the three major components of sustainability, which are social, environmental, and economic components, sustainably engineered materials are the materials of interest in transportation, construction, and manufacturing industries; hence, all hands must be on deck to ensure they are properly annexed, and their engineering properties which impact sustainability, including durability, reusability, and recyclability, must be analysed. This is necessary for the production of renewable clean energy using local and readily available materials (polymers, polymer biocomposites, etc.). As a result, the production of sustainably engineered materials in large volume without depleting non-renewable resources or destabilizing the environment equilibrium is one of the major focuses of this Special Issue. As part of the scope of this Special Issue, investigations regarding sustainable biomaterials and their properties and applications will contribute towards the selection of correct materials for manufacturing and biomedical purposes due to their excellent biodegradability ability.
This Special Issue, entitled “Materials Properties and Engineering for Sustainability”, covers various subjects related to the engineering properties of durable, recycled, and reused materials, biomass, biomaterials and biointerfaces, materials for sustainability, mechanical behaviour and structural materials, novel characterization methods, materials computation, energy storage, and fuels. In line with materials properties and engineering for sustainability, short articles and literature reviews as well as the state-of-the-art papers are also highly welcomed.
Dr. Syie Luing Wong
Dr. Temitope Olumide Olugbade
Dr. Bevan Bemgba Bemgba Nyakuma
Dr. Olagoke Oladokun
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- sustainability
- sustainable biomaterials
- biomass
- materials engineering
- properties of materials
- energy
- organic materials
- durability
- recyclability reusability
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