Fabrication and Application of Polymer-Based Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

Polymer-based nanomaterials are considered promising candidates for solving pressing current global challenges that create enormous resources for possible applications from biomedicine to environmental science. The design of these nanomaterials can be realized by rational manipulation of the morphology, structure, and chemical composition of individual constituents. Polymeric nanomaterials have shown their highly appreciable performance in chemical, physical, and mechanical properties by combining their unique morphology, nanoscopic size, and gigantic surface. Moreover, the surface chemistry and physical characteristics of polymeric nanomaterials, as well as their primary function, can be tailored for specific requirements.

Practical approaches on how to build a new family of nanomaterials are elaborated by discussing various strategies to form polymer-based nanomaterials, including some principles of supramolecular coordination chemistry, novel peptide modification, physical constructions, surface and interface designs, and some synthetic methodologies. Special issues of nanoclusters, supramolecular polymers, light-emitting materials, and both hydrophobic and hydrophilic nanoparticles are important to instruct how one should form core–shell architectures or molecular superstructures that are going to be used for certain interesting physical, electrical, and optical properties.

The development of polymer-based nanomaterials is still in its initial struggling stage. In order to meet the requirements of diverse applications, polymer-based nanomaterials have to be designed and fabricated with unique properties and functions. On the one hand, even today, exactly coordinating the polymer properties with the parameters of macroscopic materials, e.g., strength, elasticity, electrical conductivity, etc., remains a grand challenge to polymer scientists. On the other hand, the design and fabrication of advanced polymer-based nanomaterials and their diversified applications also need extensive cross-cooperation among molecular chemists, biologists, physicists, engineers, etc.

This Special Issue focuses on presenting the fabrication and applications of polymer-based nanomaterials. We encourage authors to contribute original research articles and review articles covering the recent progress on polymer-based nanomaterials to present the potential of these materials in the above-mentioned fields.

Dr. Magdalena Aflori
Guest Editor

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• polymer-based nanomaterials
• biomimetic materials
• composite materials
• surface modifications
• stimuli-responsive
• functional nanomaterials
• synthetic and natural polymers
• micropatterns