Polylactic Acid (PLA)-Based Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomacromolecules, Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 8144
Special Issue Editor
Interests: radiation processing of polymers; characterization of polymer durability; antioxidants; evaluation degradation of polymer composites; polymer hybrids; radiation effects on solid materials
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Dear Colleagues,
The PLA-based products are a useful class of materials with appropriate compatibility with people. Various guidelines direct their research and manufacture activities onto the pertinent products with healthy usage. Large accessibility of PLA compositions inspires the attempts in the identification of suitable applications in various areas: materials for medicine and biology, food security, automotive industry, agriculture, structuration of buildings, safety barriers of fluids, textile industry, commodities, some essential ranges of humankind. This Special Issue of Polymers intends to gather the assays on the identification, characterization, functionalization and assignment of several compositions that are structured on PLA formulations, especially biocompositions. This important class of polymer materials must be treated as the convenient structures that care for high living standards. The authors are asked to submit papers covering the following topics:
- Synthesis and derivation by of PLA based structures
- Characterization and improvement of the performances of material compositions for versatile applications as well as the failure of products
- Preparation and qualification of polymer blends including hybrids
- Lifespan assessment of structured PLA materials as stabilized compositions’
- Damage effects of environmental stressors on the durability of biopolymer and their derivatives
- Identification and extension of the peculiar applications in the medical healing
- Biodegradation of PLA composites
- Applications of biomaterials based on PLA and related biopolymers
Dr. Traian Zaharescu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- PLA compounds
- blends
- hybrids
- crosslinking
- functionalization by grafting
- compatibility and compatibilization of PLA based materials
- physical properties
- durability
- biodegradability
- ecological recycling of polymer wastes by means of PLA
- medical products
- packaging