Advanced Polymer Processing Processes
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2022) | Viewed by 3831
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal transport in polymers; charge transport in polymers; functional polymers; advanced manufacturing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced polymer processing processes are essential for the conversion of advanced functional polymers into high-performance devices and products in the modern lifestyle. Advanced polymer processing processes include extrusion, injection molding, 3D printing, blow molding, rotational molding, compression molding, thermoforming, roll-to-roll coating, calendering, casting, blending, compounding and reactive processing, microinjection molding, nanoimprinting, and beyond. By publishing both the state-of-art theory, modeling, and simulation of polymer processing and the real-world applications of advanced polymer processing processes, this Special Issue, “Advanced Polymer Processing Processes”, will stimulate a broad community (mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, materials scientists and engineers, chemists, and polymer scientists and engineers, among others) to further develop advanced polymer processing processes for creating and producing unique devices and products with desired functionality.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Modeling and theory of advanced polymer processing processes;
- Advanced polymer processing processes for developing polymer-based electronics, optics, and thermal energy storage and conversion devices;
- Advanced polymer engineering processes for creating polymer-based health, medicine, and biotechnology devices and products;
- Influence of polymer processing processes on device properties and product functionality;
- Advanced polymer processing processes for merging themes (e.g., plastic recycling and beyond).
Prof. Dr. Yanfei Xu
Dr. Louise Carson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer
- processing
- theory
- experimental process
- physical property
- device and system functionality
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