Towards a Sustainable and Recyclable Future with Wood and Wood-Based Composites
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 5544
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymer (nano)composites; structural properties; thermal properties; surface properties of polymer composites
Interests: polysaccharide-based magnetic nanocomposites; active biopolymers with an-tiviral and antimicrobial properties; encapsulated polymeric mi-cro/nanoparticles; derivatization of polysaccharides with target functionality; engineering and biomedical applications of polysaccharides; development of antiviral personal protective equipment
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Dear Colleagues,
The vision of the Plastic Europe strategy and the European Green Deal efforts is based on a sustainable, low-carbon, resource-efficient and competitive economy that fully respects reuse, recycling and durability. This is a challenge where polymer–wood-fibre-reinforced composites offer significant opportunities to exploit raw material resources and produce high-added-value material composites that provide a societal solution, saving resources and emissions and ultimately making the polymer composite material as attractive and best qualified as a neat polymer.
Although existing polymer wood composites are commercially successful, material development has not focused on controlling the (nano) structure of polymer composites to extend the range of their properties. There is a need to tune the structural changes in the properties of wood–polymer composites (molecular weight, Mw, chain scission, crystal structure, (trans) crystallisation behaviour) that cause changes in thermal properties (melting temperature, crystallisation) as well as rheological, mechanical, and surface behaviour; adding new functionalities also provides motivation for future tailoring.
Focusing on multifunctional properties in a wide range of applications such as automotive, aerospace, packaging, construction and transportation, the Special Issue, entitled Towards a Sustainable and Recyclable Future with Wood and Wood-based Composites, will present the latest developments in polymer wood-based composites.
Therefore, it is my pleasure to invite you to submit your work for this Special Issue. Research papers, reviews and communications are welcome.
Dr. Klementina Pušnik Črešnar
Dr. Olivija Plohl
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- recyclability
- polymer wood composites
- structural properties
- thermal properties
- rheological properties
- mechanical properties
- surface properties
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