Outcomes and Trends in Polymer Gels: Designing, Properties and Applications
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 50
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soft matter; stimuli-responsive gels; additive manufacturing; bio-based nanomaterials; advanced analytical techniques; energy storage; aerogels
Interests: polymer synthesis and characterization; stimuli-responsive and functional polymeric materials; synthetic and reversible hydrogels; optically labelled polymers; hybrid inorganic/organic soft materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue entitled “Outcomes and Trends in Polymer Gels: Designing, Properties and Applications” focuses on the state-of-the-art design of new polymer networks that involves using novel crosslinkers or improving those existing. Deep synergy of hybrid nanomaterials has driven the rapid growth of adaptative properties of these materials with a significant role in soft matter. However, a goal to be pursued is to create stronger supramolecular interactions that give them robustness but do not sacrifice their advantages, in which great progress is already being achieved. This Special Issue is accompanied by the structural knowledge of these architectures that enable us to predict their properties, which requires the use of advanced characterization techniques and analysis through the so-called “Analytical Research Infrastructures” involving synchrotron and neutron facilities. Despite these points to overcome, polymer networks have found a place among the most successful and cutting-edge applications related to energy and bio-based applications where efforts in the scalability of obtained products are starting to be seen and beginning to go the extra mile. This Special Issue welcomes submissions focused on the development of novel building blocks or improving deeply characterized architectures with special emphasis on bridging the gap between academia and industry.
Dr. Noelia Maldonado Gavilán
Prof. Dr. Georgios Bokias
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymeric networks
- strengthened supramolecular interactions
- novel crosslinkers
- smart behavior
- advanced manufacturing and characterization
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