Advances in the Performance and Functionalization of Polymer Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 712
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymer chemistry; functionalized materials; transdermal drug delivery system; green dyeing technology
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Dear Colleagues,
High-performance functionalized polymeric materials play a pivotal role in a wide variety of areas such as drug delivery systems, energy conversion and storage, clean production, environmental remediation and thus have garnered increasing attention from the research community in recent years. For example, novel drug delivery vectors with specific purposes like higher bioavailability and compatibility have achieved tremendous advances in the past few years; highly efficient materials for catalysis and energy conversion and storage are of high importance for carbon emission reduction and the development of clean energy technology; and developments in sustainable circular technology based on novel materials are also attracting significant attention to eliminate wastewater discharge and to reduce carbon emissions, as well as functionalized materials with novel properties towards environmental remediation and wastewater treatment, etc.
This Special Issue is a platform to showcase cutting-edge research and the latest advances in the performance and functionalization of polymer materials, covering a wide spectrum of research from material design to applications. Authors are welcome to submit both research and review papers.
Dr. Wenyi Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- PHMB-based materials
- transdermal drug delivery system
- biomaterials
- cationic polyelectrolytes
- microencapsulation/nanoparticles
- hydrogel
- wastewater treatment
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