Advances in Polymeric Adhesives
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 80
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bio-based adhesives; thermosetting polymers for adhesives; functional polymer; polymer composites; bio-enineering; bio-based materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Polymer adhesives are widely used in various industrial sectors, such as aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, construction, electronics, lightweight materials, and civil engineering. Polymer adhesive materials have the advantage of combining desired functions with tailored physical and chemical stability. Therefore, the development of superior-performance and lower-cost adhesives, based on novel approaches, has attracted an increasing amount of interest in recent decades.
This Special Issue is aimed at collecting cutting-edge original research papers and reviews on the main areas where novel approaches, conceptual or applied, are taken in the fundamental chemistry, mechanisms, applications, and technologies of polyurethanes, epoxies, acrylics, and many other synthetic adhesives, be they oil-derived, coal-derived, inorganic binders, or biosourced polymeric adhesives from renewable materials. Mixed synthetic/biosourced adhesives are also aimed at as a particularly lively field of interest.
The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following: all adhesive types under development throughout the vast variety of adhesives in use today, from acrylics to epoxies, polyurethanes, isocyanates, phenolics, aminoplastics, and many others. Original and innovative articles, communications, and reviews on this topic are encouraged and welcomed to be submitted.
Dr. Bitao Lu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bio-based adhesives
- epoxy adhesives
- resin chemistry
- bio-based polymers
- polymer-based adhesives
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