Innovations in polymers and composite materials
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Esteban Broitman
The constant process of innovation in the field of polymer technology has determined that the polymer industry is nowadays among the fastest growing industries in the world. Furthermore, the introduction of polymer composite materials has driven the research to the discovery of novel and sophisticated materials.
An idea of the growth in the area of polymers can be reflected through the increasing number of patents and publications through the years. A search on the database Google Scholar using just the keyword “polymer” displays an explosive number of publications (Figure 1). According to the database, in the period 2001–2015, about 1.26 million articles have included the word polymer. A search in the area of patents shows that 3,250,797 patents in the area of polymers have been filled during the same period in all the world.
Number of published articles using the keyword “polymer”. The information was retrieved from the database Google Scholar on 22/11/2016. Each column represents the number of articles during the previous 15 publication years.
The present issue of e-Polymers contains 12 specially selected manuscripts submitted to the 2016 Global Conference on Polymer and Composite Materials (PCM2016), which was held in Hangzhou, China from May 20th to 23rd, 2016. Following previous successful conferences in Ningbo and Beijing (1), the technical program in 2016 consisted of six international keynote speakers, invited speakers, oral presentations in four parallel sessions, and a poster session. The electronic submission and handling of manuscripts were identical to the procedures applied to manuscripts submitted as regular contributions for publication in e-Polymers.
The selected papers in this issue highlight current topics in the area of polymers and polymer composites, such as novel synthesis methods; their optical and mechanical properties; thermal aging, cure reactions, swelling, wetting, novel polymer composites with graphene, as well as new advances in characterization and modeling thereof.
About the author
Reference
1. Broitman E. Novel insights in polymer and composite materials. e-Polymers. 2015;15(5):285–6.10.1515/epoly-2015-0195Search in Google Scholar
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Innovations in polymers and composite materials
- Full length articles
- Preparation and properties of chemically reduced graphene oxide/copolymer-polyamide nanocomposites
- Synthesis and properties of well-defined carbazole-containing fluorescent star polymers of different arms
- The effect of high-current pulsed electron beam modification on the surface wetting property of polyamide 6
- Synthesis and application of waterborne polyurethane fluorescent composite
- Medicated structural PVP/PEG composites fabricated using coaxial electrospinning
- Research of the thermal aging mechanism of polycarbonate and polyester film
- Damage indication of 2′, 7′-dichlorofluorescein for epoxy polymer and the effect of water on its damage indicating ability
- Synthesis and characterization of thermosensitive and polarity-sensitive fluorescent PNIPAM-coated gold nanoparticles
- Comparative study of crystallization and lamellae orientation of isotactic polypropylene by rapid heat cycle molding and conventional injection molding
- Determination of deformation of a highly oriented polymer under three-point bending using finite element analysis
- Kinetic studies on the cure reaction of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene based polyurethane with variable catalysts by differential scanning calorimetry
- Preparation and swelling properties of poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide) composite hydrogels
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Innovations in polymers and composite materials
- Full length articles
- Preparation and properties of chemically reduced graphene oxide/copolymer-polyamide nanocomposites
- Synthesis and properties of well-defined carbazole-containing fluorescent star polymers of different arms
- The effect of high-current pulsed electron beam modification on the surface wetting property of polyamide 6
- Synthesis and application of waterborne polyurethane fluorescent composite
- Medicated structural PVP/PEG composites fabricated using coaxial electrospinning
- Research of the thermal aging mechanism of polycarbonate and polyester film
- Damage indication of 2′, 7′-dichlorofluorescein for epoxy polymer and the effect of water on its damage indicating ability
- Synthesis and characterization of thermosensitive and polarity-sensitive fluorescent PNIPAM-coated gold nanoparticles
- Comparative study of crystallization and lamellae orientation of isotactic polypropylene by rapid heat cycle molding and conventional injection molding
- Determination of deformation of a highly oriented polymer under three-point bending using finite element analysis
- Kinetic studies on the cure reaction of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene based polyurethane with variable catalysts by differential scanning calorimetry
- Preparation and swelling properties of poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide) composite hydrogels
