Recycling of Engineering Polymers: Process and Physico-Chemical Changes
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 1320
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymer composites and nanocomposites; polymer blends; polyoxymethylene composites; plastics engineering; mechanics of plastics cracking; mechanical-thermal properties of recyclates; product ecology; design for recycling; environmental management; structure development in polymer processing; polymer processing; ageing of polymers; polymer recycling; biodegradation; material characterization
Interests: packaging materials; plastic; quality; safety; recycling; eco-design; design for recycling; biodegradation; innovation; greenwashing; microplastics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are dedicating you to this new Special Issue dedicated to the issues of Recycling Engineering Polymers, where you can post the results of scientific research and share with others new technological solutions aimed at recovering from secondary waste polymeric materials and raw materials with defined characteristics and structure according to the principles of the circular economy.
The modern world shows a huge demand for new recycled polymeric materials in the form of recyclates and their mixtures, the properties and structure of which can be compared with virgin materials. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together research or review papers into a single-issue collection of the current state of the art in the field of mechanical/chemical/organic recycling of polymeric waste, the correlation between processing parameters and the resulting structure and properties of re-granulated or other raw materials obtained by chemical and/or organic recycling.
We very much hope that this absorbing topic, driven by the needs of industry and the conservation of non-renewable resources, will prompt you to submit your manuscript to this Special Issue.
This Special Issue focuses on the following topics:
- Mechanical recycling of polymers: process/physical-chemical changes in re-granulated/closing the loop.
- Effect of polymer recycling on resulting morphology and/or properties.
- Mechanical, rheological, and thermal properties of polymers induced by reprocessing conditions and their relationship with the structure.
- Organic recycling/chemical recycling and properties polymers by processing.
Prof. Dr. Dorota Czarnecka-Komorowska
Dr. Karolina Wiszumirska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- engineering polymer wastes
- closing the loop/circular economy
- mechanical recycling
- chemical recycling
- organic recycling
- property–structure relationships
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