Polymers in Renewable 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 (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 202
Special Issue Editors
Interests: materials engineering; metals and their alloys; smart materials; biomaterials; bio-based materials; production engineering; industrial technological processes
Interests: agrobots; biomaterials; biosensors; deep learning; food and feed production lines; food, sensors; hydraulic driving; circular economy; control systems
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Interests: nanolignin; cellulose; particle agglomeration; particle self-assembly
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymer plastics play an important role in all human activities. They are common in industrial production, everyday products, packaging, textiles, food production, and medicine. Their popularity is due to their easy and cheap synthesis and processing, their durability, their resistance to operation in aggressive environments, and the easy control of their properties in a wide range. They perfectly fill areas where other materials, such as metals and their alloys and ceramics, cannot be used. Together with the aforementioned groups of materials, they form a new group, that is, composites, which are becoming even more versatile. On the other hand, these features cause artificial polymer materials to become wastes which are hazardous to humans and the natural environment . They are difficult to dispose of safely, and pollute the oceans, lands and even the atmosphere in the form of micro-plastics. The latter are found more and more often in food, and are adversely affecting our health. Most polymer waste originating from crude oil is hazardous to flora, fauna and humans in the long term. Hence the need for intensive research on the improvement of the unfavorable properties of polymer materials or the complete abandonment of their use. One solution may be biodegradable and compostable polymers, the main advantage of which is that they biodegrade to particles which are inert to the natural environment. This new group of materials derived from biosynthesis (or, despite being produced by chemical synthesis, having the features of biopolymers) should as much as possible replace artificial polymer materials in the near future. Therefore, it is necessary to continue the research efforts in innovative biopolymers and engage in the professional discussion of their results. We want to devote ourselves to this effort in this Special Issue on Polymers in Renewable Materials.
Dr. Jacek Słoma
Dr. Adam Ekielski
Dr. Pawan Kumar Mishra
Dr. Tomasz Żelaziński
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biopolymers
- biocomposites
- biopackaging
- biodegradability
- biosynthesis
- polymers in medicine
- design of biopolymer-based devices
- polymer biosensors
