Designing Functional Soft Matter via Processing
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 7459
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymers; supramolecular materials; stimuli-responsive materials; photoresponsive polymers; photochemistry; polymer nanocomposite; upconversion
Interests: polymer electrolytes; membranes; membrane separation; ions transport; fuel cells; electrodialysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit to this Special Issue of Processes focused on “Designing Functional Soft Matter”. Functional soft matter, including polymers, liquid crystals, membranes, gels, colloids, and nanomaterials, has attracted a lot of interest because of its fundamental importance and technological applications. By designing structures and processing materials in proper ways, soft materials with user-defined functions can be prepared. This Special Issue seeks novel contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Design of functional soft matter such as polymers, liquid crystals, membranes, gels, colloids, nanomaterials, etc.
- Simulation, control, and optimization of functional soft matter
- Detailed analysis and characterization of functional soft matter
- Synthesis of functional soft matter
- Processing of functional soft matter
- Functions of soft matter: stimuli-responsiveness, separation, mechanical properties, self-assembly, optical properties, luminescence properties, electronic properties, magnetic properties, and other functions
- Soft matter for practical applications
We look forward to your submissions.
Thank you,
Prof. Dr. Si Wu
Prof. Dr. Liang Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft matter
- polymer
- liquid crystal
- membrane
- colloid
- nanomaterial
- gel
- processing
- function
- synthesis
- characterization
- simulation