Self-Assembly in Polymer Blends and Melts
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Physics and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 2017
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mesoscale modeling; soft matter; polymer blends and melts; nanomaterials; self-assembly
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Self-assembly is a spontaneous process through which disordered components get together to form ordered structures in a multi-component material. This process is derived by the local interaction within the system and the ordered structures show collective properties that are different from those exhibited by the individual components. Polymers, due to versatility in their chemical and physical structures, offer a large number of degrees of freedom for programing the local interactions and engineering materials with optimized properties. Therefore, polymers are abundantly used in many technological and biomedical applications as a crucial class of materials that exhibit or mediate self-assembly behavior.
The purpose of this Special Issue on self-assembly in polymer melts and blends is to prepare a collection of scientific investigations that address different aspects of this behavior in polymer systems. Submissions are welcome based on any computational, theoretical and experimental approach to the fundamental understanding of the molecular origin of self-assembly and/or engineering self-assembled structures in polymer systems designed for specific applications. Manuscripts can be either original research or reviews.
Dr. Shaghayegh Khani
Dr. Joao Maia
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Self-assembly
- Polymer melts and blends
- Copolymers
- Advanced functional materials
- Nanomaterials
