Advances in Smart Polymers and Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2023) | Viewed by 11143
Special Issue Editors
Interests: radiation grafting; smart polymers; drug delivery; biomaterials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: coordination; organometallics; materials; polymers; synthesis
Interests: polymers; smart polymers; enzymes; dendrimers; radiation grafting; drug delivery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymeric systems that present versatile behaviours are currently one of the most researched topics in applied polymer science, and novel applications that were previously reserved for materials such as metals, ceramics, and semiconductors are now emerging at an unprecedented pace. Within all the possibilities of stimuli-responsive polymers, pH and thermal responses have always been an important area because the triggers that exploit these responses are readily available both in laboratories and in applied contexts, especially biological systems. The creation of these systems has evolved from simple to smart responses up to fine-tuned systems that are increasingly useful for complex applications.
As these systems continue to boom, we propose this Special Issue which deals with the creation, testing, characterization, and complex application of polymeric systems that exhibit responses to triggers such as pH and thermal changes in their surroundings (or both). The nature of these polymer systems may naturally be derived both from scratch (e.g., the development and polymerization of smart monomers) and from the modification of natural or synthetic polymeric matrixes. Additionally, the applications for these systems may be broad, extending from medical applications (e.g., drug delivery, tissue engineering) to the creation of new materials (e.g., self-healing polymers). Concurrently, this issue is concerned with both state-of-the-art synthetic pathways needed to create novel materials as well as with the fine-tuning of smart polymers. Both reviews and original submissions are welcome.
Dr. Emilio Carrillo
Dr. Felipe López-Saucedo
Dr. Guadalupe G. Flores-Rojas
Dr. Amira Jalil Fragoso-Medina
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- smart polymers
- pH responsiveness
- thermal responsiveness
- new materials
- drug delivery
- self-healing polymers
- state-of-the-art polymers
