Polymer Thin Films: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Membranes and Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 82
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thin polymer films find important applications in many different industrial sectors, including organic electronics, optics, biotechnology and medicine, to name a few. In particular, they are used as active or passive layers in devices such as photovoltaic cells (PVCs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and various types of sensors. Thin films of conductive polymers are successfully used as transparent, flexible electrodes. In turn, in optical systems, they are used as lenses or mirrors, and in medical applications, they are used in drug delivery systems, as wound dressings, etc.
Their success is owed to their relatively low production costs, their wide range of specific polymer properties and the relative ease of processing and modifying them. However, their use in such important applications poses a number of challenges related to the appropriate stability of their key parameters. Moreover, currently there is a lot of pressure on the industry to switch to environmentally friendly production. This forced transformation imposes additional challenges on research, especially on the materials used in production to meet environmental protection requirements.
The aim of this Special Issue is to create a collection of the highest-quality scientific works devoted to the preparation and characterization of the properties of thin polymer films with high application potential. Therefore, contributions are invited in the form of original research and review articles in this broad interdisciplinary field.
Dr. Henryk Bednarski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymers
- thin films
- organic electronics
- sensors
- microstructure
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