Functional Polymeric Materials for Biomedical and Environmental Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Polymeric materials, owing to their versatile properties, have found numerous applications in various areas of our everyday life. In this Special Issue, we would like to focus on the fabrication and/or characterization of functional materials based on synthetic and natural polymers that may be used in biomedical and environmental protection fields, serving as, e.g., drug delivery systems or carriers of catalysts for the degradation of hazardous pollutants.

With respect to biomedical and environmental applications, we are mainly interested in polymeric materials in the form of particles, capsules, or vesicles ranging from nanometric to micrometric and larger sizes, but crosslinked bulk materials are also of interest. The functionality of such systems can be tailored to desired applications—they may also combine several functionalities, related, e.g., to their stimuli-responsive behavior, encapsulation of active molecules, and photo or redox activity, leading to formation of multifunctional materials.

In addition to purely polymeric materials, hybrid systems with polymers serving as templates or matrices and other functional components (e.g., nanoparticles) are also within the scope of this Special Issue.

We kindly invite you to submit a manuscript(s) to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

For more information, please visit the Special Issue website:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/special_issues/Funct_Polym_Mater_Biomed_Environ_Appl

Prof. Szczepan Zapotoczny
Prof. Czesław Kapusta
Guest Editors

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