Reinforced Polymer Composites II

This Special Issue focuses on the recent advances in reinforced polymer composites. Polymer materials are nowadays widely used, for example, in human life, medicine, and industry. Despite their popularity, polymers have numerous disadvantages, such as insufficient strength, stiffness, creep, and low usage temperature. That is why reinforcing fillers are widely used to improve polymer properties. The following factors should be taken into account to achieve high mechanical properties: (a) that uniform distribution of the filler in the polymer matrix of a bulk sample will result in a composite physical and chemical properties uniformity over its volume; (b) the filler should not agglomerate inside the polymer bulk sample because it might act as a stress concentrator; and (c) the interaction between fillers and polymer matrix should result in composite supramolecular structure improvement. Strong interfacial interaction between polymer matrix and filler surface can improve load transfer from the matrix to the reinforcing filler.

This Special Issue covers all the fields related to the reinforced polymer composites, but special attention will be given to the following aspects:

• Effect of polymer–filler interface interactions on the composite properties;
• Carbon fillers for polymers, including fibers, nanotubes, graphene, etc.;
• Solid-state techniques for polymer composite formation, such as ball-milling, extrusion, molding, etc.;
• Polymer composites produced by additive manufacturing;
• Use of recycling materials in polymer composites;
• Structure of reinforced polymer composites, including structure of interfaces;
• Thermal, mechanical, and tribological properties of reinforced polymer composites;
• Thermal and electrical conductivity of reinforced polymer composites.

Authors are welcome to submit their latest research in the form of original full articles, communications, or reviews on this topic.

Prof. Dr. Victor Tcherdyntsev
Guest Editor

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