Functional Polymer Films and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the use of polymer films as the leading direction for the fabrication of advanced functional materials has become one of a major research field, spanning many disciplines. The diverse functional properties of polymer films open up wide possibilities for their application, from packaging materials for food storage to memristors as models of biological neural systems. The advances in the polymer films functionality require the development of new methods for their preparation and characterization to estimate the properties and target indexes. A promising way to improve properties of films and to produce new polymer materials is the elaboration of composite and multilayer systems including functionally active components (electrically conducting polymers, carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles, biodegradable components, nonorganic admixtures). The authors of papers should pay special attention to the correspondance of the structure and morphology investigation methods  to the tasks of the work, the reliability of the experimental data and their interpretation.

This Special Issue entitled Issue "Functional Polymer Films and Their Applications” calls for papers that can specifically connect improvements in the quality of polymer films with advances in characterization techniques and specific approaches to preparation and modification of the samples (melt extrusion, precipitation from a polymer solution, film surface modification, deposition, mixing, polymerization, treatment by irradiation, polarization by electric field and so on). Original research papers and reviews on polymer films for various applications of polymer films such as membrane technologies, energy storage and conversion systems, executive and biomechanical devices will be also considered. 

The research in this area will make an important  contribution to the production of controlled and stimuli-responsible polymer film materials based on highly efficient technological processes.

Prof. Dr. Galina K. Elyashevich
Guest Editor

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