Biodegradable Polymers and Textiles
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2024 | Viewed by 38846
Special Issue Editors
Interests: conductive materials; antiradar coatings; electrospinning; biodegradable materials; microcapsules; textiles
Interests: delivery of bioactive compounds; carotenoids; antimicrobial peptides; hydrocolloids; nano/microencapsulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the world's population has grown substantially and with this the need for different synthetic and natural products and clothing. Resulting wastewaters and environmental pollution has also increased significantly. In this context, the engineering and production of synthetic textiles has been the main cause of environmental damage, leading to a large amount of toxic waste entering the planet ecosystems.
However, with modern chemicals and processes, many products used in everyday life can be replaced by biodegradables. Therefore, the developing of a wide range of biodegradable polymeric materials, and the designing of new catalysts or polymerization methods to reduce the application cost of biodegradable polymeric materials, should become one of the main features of research in the scientific community. Fully biodegradable polymers can support the textile and synthetic substances production industry by decreasing processing energy and materials, and manufacturing costs.
This Special Issue will focus on, but is not be limited to, recent advances and emerging challenges in the field of fabrication, application, research, and technical properties of biodegradable polymers and natural or biosynthetic textiles. Likewise, the investigation of secondary recycled materials would be of interest as well. Therefore, we welcome research and review papers (both theoretical and experimental), as well as scientific letters and reports.
Dr. Sandra Varnaitė-Žuravliova
Dr. Jolanta Sereikaitė
Dr. Julija Baltušnikaitė-Guzaitienė
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biodegradable materials
- biopolymers
- biosynthetic polymers
- natural fibers
- coatings
- polymer composites
- recycling
