Advances in Light-Induced Catalytic Polymerization
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Photocatalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2024) | Viewed by 3003
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photopolymerization; photoinitiators; stimuli-responsive materials; organic/polymer photoelectronic functional materials; nanoscience; intelligent manufacturing
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Interests: photopolymerization; photoinitiators; metal complexes; organic chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Light-induced polymerization is an appealing polymerization technique offering a broad variety of applications ranging from microelectronics and UV coatings to additive manufacturing and dentistry. As a crucial point to achieve a high monomer efficiency, photoinitiators/photocatalysts that absorb light should exhibit high molar extinction coefficient, appropriate redox properties and suitable excited state lifetimes in order to react with the different additives. Historically, transition metals and organic compounds were used as photoinitiators/photocatalysts. However, nanomaterials such as quantum dots, carbon dots, and carbon nitride have recently been proposed as new and innovative photoinitiators/photocatalysts of polymerization and are now being actively researched by both the academic and industrial communities. Researchers in these active research fields are cordially invited to submit relevant manuscripts, in the form of original research articles, perspectives and reviews, concerning the development of new photoinitiators/photocatalysts of polymerization for a Special Issue entitled “Advances in Light-Induced Catalytic Polymerization” within the journal Catalysts.
Dr. Ke Sun
Dr. Frédéric Dumur
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- light-induced polymerization
- photoredox catalysis
- photoinitiators/photocatalysts
- transition metals
- organic compounds
- nanomaterials
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