The Future of Natural Macromolecule Materials: From Fundamental Research to Real-World Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 49
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biopolymers; hydrogels; films; nanocomposite materials; biomedical materials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: design and synthesis of high-performance bio-based polymer composites; functional materials for organic photoelectrochemical transistor bioanalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to global environmental pollution and the energy crisis, the development and exploiting of natural macromolecules has attracted more and more attention due to their extraordinary advantages, including biodegradability, biocompatibility, renewability, and wide resource abundance. Natural macromolecules have already been converted into a series of materials, including aerogels, films, hydrogels, microspheres, and bioplastics, showing wide applications in the biomedical, food packaging, water treatment, and construction industry fields. However, some natural macromolecules, such as cellulose and chitin, are difficult to dissolve in common solvents, which greatly restricts their material preparation and applications. Moreover, some natural macromolecule materials usually exhibit drawbacks such as poor mechanical properties and water resistance. So, the corresponding fundamental research is very important to broaden their real-world applications in various fields and is critical to solving the energy crisis problem and sustainable development.
This Special Issue aims to provide a forum for researchers to present current and recent developments in the dissolution and modification of natural macromolecules, the structure design, and the characterization of novel corresponding composite materials. Original research papers, review articles, and short communication or letters are all welcome.
Dr. Meng He
Prof. Dr. Chengshuang Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- novel natural macromolecule extraction processes or technologies
- natural macromolecule dissolution
- novel natural macromolecule-based material structure design
- novel natural macromolecule characterization method
- preparation of natural macromolecule derivatives or their composites
- the applications of natural macromolecule materials
