Hierarchical Structured Polymers

Dear Colleagues,

Polymers show, in general, the complicated hierarchical structure in the wide levels of atoms, polymer chain conformations, chain packing mode in the crystal lattice, formation of lamella composed of the crystal cells, the stacked structure of lamellae, and the aggregation of lamellae in the spherulites. The remarkable progress in analytical instruments has made it possible to reveal these complicated hierarchical structures from various different points of view. In addition, polymer substance shows the transition phenomenon under the application of an external field, by which the hierarchical structure should be changed remarkably.

When viewed from the polymer side, the recent development in synthetic techniques has supplied various kinds of novel polymers with unexpectedly interesting properties. These behaviors are also understood from the viewpoint of hierarchical structure.

It is quite valuable and important to review the recent progress in hierarchical structural studies of conventional polymer materials with modern analytical techniques and the development of the novel polymers with characteristic properties and related hierarchical structures.

In this Special Issue, we would like to invite as many excellent papers as possible, which describe the above-mentioned contents concerning the hierarchical structured polymers in the form of original papers, feature articles, etc.

Prof. Kohji Tashiro
Guest Editor

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• Hierarchical structure
• Structure analysis (X-ray, neutron or electron diffraction, IR and Raman spectroscopy, NMR, etc.)
• Computer simulation
• New polymers with interesting hierarchical structures
• Relationship between property and hierarchical structure
• Hierarchical structure change in phase transition