Recent Advances in Functional Elastomer
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2023) | Viewed by 214
Special Issue Editor
Interests: elastomers; reversible crosslinks; smart elastomers; fillers; AFM; self-healing elastomers
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Dear Colleagues,
Elastomers are an important class of polymer materials that are used in automotives, soft and waterproof coatings, and the medical and robotics fields, among others. An elastomer is a material that undergoes large deformation under force and quickly recovers its approximate initial shape and size after withdrawing the external force. In the most case, the creation of a tri-dimensional network is necessary. Traditionally, this process takes place with the covalent bonds between polymer chains.
Recently, greater consideration for environmental protection and resource conservation have gained increasing attention. In this sense, the functionalization of elastomers, which allows other kind of interaction between polymers chains with the aim to generate a tri-dimensional network without permanent covalent bonds, offers the development of advanced materials with the advantage of improving the regeneration and recycling of these materials, while maintaining the mechanical properties required by each application.
In other advanced applications, elastomers need special properties such as electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, magnetic properties, and self-healing, among others.
This Special Issue aims to collect the latest research on functional elastomer composites, including manuscripts, theoretical discussions and critical review papers related to the synthesis, characterization, and properties of advanced functional elastomer composites.
Dr. Pilar Posadas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- reversible crosslinks
- smart rubber composites
- functionalized elastomer composites
- functionalized fillers
- high-performance elastomer
- thiol-ene elastomers
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