Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Polymeric Materials and Composites: 2022 Edition
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2022) | Viewed by 6840
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electrochemistry; synthesis of polymeric materials and composites; synthesis of magnetic clusters; synthesis of magnetic nanocomposites
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The continued growth of research in the field of polymers is a testament to the high-level performance of these materials in a wide range of applications in fields such as biomedicine, biotechnology, environmental remediation, energy, sensing, and packaging. These performances are a result of the special attention paid to the processing–morphology–structure–property relationship of the system. The influence of preparation techniques and essential parameters involved in the preparation can help to exhibit new or significantly improved properties such as different color, greater strength, elasticity, electrical and/or thermal conductivity, insulating behavior, and specific reactivity—properties that are the key challenges to achieve the full exploitation of polymeric materials in many practical applications.
At the same time, widening the applicability field of these materials brings new challenges and unsolved issues. Thus, to understand the behavior changes of polymer nanocomposites reflected on the structure, functionality, morphology, particle size, etc., which further decides the application where they can be used, it is necessary to use various analytical tools. Several classical characterization methods are known, such as thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), which reliably predict the microstructure and thermal and mechanical properties of the synthesized polymer nanocomposite, but there are other specific techniques applied to unravel specific properties for particular applications.
Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue on “Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Polymeric Materials and Composites: 2021” is to focus on interdisciplinary discussions related to the synthesis and characterization of polymeric materials and composites from both an application and a fundamental point of view. Of special interest are new preparation methods of multifunctional polymers and/or polymeric hybrid materials, new and/or improved properties of this material, as well as innovative application.
Dr. Izabell Crăciunescu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Polymeric materials
- Polymeric composites
- Polymeric hybrid materials
- Innovative application
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