Agricultural Polymers and Functional Optical Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 2560
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agricultural polymers
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Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of facility agriculture, sunlight regulation technology has become a key factor affecting energy consumption, photosynthesis efficiency, and vegetable quality in facility agriculture. As the most important window of energy exchange between facility agriculture and the outside world, the quality and function of greenhouse films attract more and more attention in recent years. Thus, lots of functional optical materials are introduced into greenhouse films to improve the modulation and conversion of sunlight wavelength and optimize the light environment of facility agriculture. The comprehensive utilization efficiency of sunlight can be improved greatly. The quality of agricultural products and carbon sequestration efficiency can be also improved.
Furthermore, with the increasing awareness of environmental protection, the application of biodegradable polymer materials and natural polymer materials in agricultural waste has also become a research hotspot.
Prof. Dr. Jialei Liu
Prof. Dr. Zeynel Seferoglu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical materials
- agricultural polymer
- carbon sequestration
- biodegradable polymer
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