Polymer Composite Films
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Membranes and Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2023) | Viewed by 2396
Special Issue Editors
Interests: flexible devices; stretchable displays; polymer dielectric composites; soft actuators
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Interests: polymers; composites; material processing; nanofibers; energy harvesting; flexible sensing; smart textiles; wearables
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymer composites consisted of a polymer matrix and functional filler, which were more likely to use a bulk form for good mechanical or dielectric property in the past century. However, in recent years, rising demands for film states of polymer composites were emerged because of the development of many other thriving research areas. For instance, flexible electronics had showed significant potential to remould the lifestyles of human being, but the bottleneck of flexible electronics was the flexible conductive or dielectric layers, which could be addressed by conductive or dielectric polymer composites film. Polymer composites could also be applied in the septation process as membranes. Generally, the polymer composite films are the combination of “polymer composite” and “films”; films form endowed polymer composites with flexibility and low-weight/volume, while the polymer composite endowed the film with functionality.
Herein, this Special Issue in Polymers focuses on conception, preparation, and application of polymer composite films which aims to display the advances in this field. The scopes are never limited to flexible electronics or septation processes, but also includes developments of polymer composite films due to various and multidisciplinary application. Original research articles, reviews, and short communications are welcomed in this Special Issue.
Dr. Titao Jing
Dr. Xiaoyang Guan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer composites films
- functional composite membranes
- polymer film processing
- flexible sensor/actuators
- wearable electronic devices
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