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Smart Polymeric and Functional Materials: Design, Properties and Emerging Applications

Guest Editors Soliman Mehawed Abdellatif Soliman, Noura Atef Abdel Sattar Ebrahim

Keywords: Smart materials; Smart polymeric materials; Stimuli-responsive polymers; Functional polymeric nanocomposites; Smart hydrogels; Smart nanomaterials; Smart bioinks; Biomedical applications

📅 Deadline: 30 Apr 2027

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Circular Plastic Technologies: From Materials Design to Environmental Management

Guest Editors Ha Manh Bui, Jheng-Jie Jiang, Thi Thanh Tam Nguyen

Keywords: plastics; bioplastics; microplastics; circular economy; waste valorization; life cycle assessment; recycling; environmental monitoring; …

📅 Deadline: 30 Apr 2027

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Advanced Recycled Polymer Composites

Guest Editors Volodymyr Lebediev, Denis Miroshnichenko

Keywords: Polymer recycling,; mechanical recycling; chemical recycling; secondary thermoplastics; recycled thermosets; polymer waste valorization; sustainable composite materials; circular economy

📅 Deadline: 31 Mar 2027

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Advanced Functional Materials for Oilfield Chemistry

Guest Editors Ming Lei, Peng Gong

Keywords: Oilfield chemicals; Advanced materials; Structure-property relationship

📅 Deadline: 31 Mar 2027

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Next-Generation Functional Polymers and Advanced Polymer Composites: From Materials Design to Mechanical, Tribological and Rheological Performance

Guest Editors Daksh Shelly, Varun Singhal, Sachin Jaidka

Keywords: Functional Polymers; Polymer Composites; Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites; Shear-Thickening Fluids; Polymer Coatings; Surface treatments; Rheology; Mechanical Performance; …

📅 Deadline: 31 Mar 2027

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Self-Healing and Repairable Polymeric Materials: Dynamic Design, Mechanisms, and Applications

Guest Editors Jianhua Xu, Jiaoyang Chen

Keywords: Self-healing polymers; Repairable materials; Dynamic covalent networks; Supramolecular interactions; Vitrimers; Polyurethanes; Functional coatings; Sustainability; …

📅 Deadline: 28 Feb 2027

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Advanced Polymeric Materials for Sustainable Food Packaging, Preservation and Food Safety

Guest Editors Ahmed Hamad, Tanmay Sarkar, Slim Smaoui

Keywords: Smart Food Packaging; Sustainable Polymeric Materials; Bio-based Polymers; Active and Intelligent Packaging; Polymer Nanocomposites; Food Contact Materials; Food Safety; Biosensors; …

📅 Deadline: 31 Jan 2027

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Advanced Additive and Hybrid Manufacturing of Metal-Polymer Composite Materials

Guest Editors Pengfei Li, Yao Sun, Shuoshuo Qu

Keywords: additive manufacturing; metal matrix composites; polymer composites; hybrid manufacturing; functional materials

📅 Deadline: 31 Jan 2027

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Advances in Biomass-Based Materials and Their Applications

Guest Editors Xugang Dang

Keywords: biomass‌; biopolymers‌; sustainable materials‌; renewable resources‌; circular economy‌; green chemistry‌; biodegradable materials‌; bio-based polymers

📅 Deadline: 31 Dec 2026

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Multi-Scale Mechanical Behavior and Constitutive Models of Polymer Materials

Guest Editors Kebin Zhang, Chenkang Liu, Junbao Li, Zhifang Wei

Keywords: polymer materials; material preparation; molding processes; mechanical properties; viscoelasticity; constitutive models; wide temperature range; aging; …

📅 Deadline: 31 Dec 2026

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Advanced Processes for the Upcycling of Plastic and Microplastic Waste into Value-Added Materials

Guest Editors Keng Yinn Wong, Wong Syie Luing, Tan Huiyi

Keywords: plastic waste upcycling; microplastic valorization; circular economy; thermochemical conversion; catalytic pyrolysis; carbon-based materials; waste-to-value technologies; sustainable materials engineering; …

📅 Deadline: 31 Dec 2026

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