Polymeric Materials: Surfaces, Interfaces and Bioapplications

Materials (Basel). 2019 Apr 22;12(8):1312. doi: 10.3390/ma12081312.

Abstract

This special issue "Polymeric Materials: Surfaces, Interfaces and Bioapplications" was proposed to cover all the aspects related to recent innovations on surfaces, interfaces and bioapplications of polymeric materials. The collected articles show the advances in polymeric materials, which have tremendous applications in agricultural films, food packaging, dental restoration, antimicrobial systems and tissue engineering. We hope that readers will be able to enjoy highly relevant topics that are related to polymers. Therefore, we hope to prove that plastics can be a solution and not a problem.

Keywords: bioapplications; blends and (nano)composites; coatings; micro- and nanopatterned films; stimuli-responsive materials/smart surfaces; surface modification/functionalization; surface segregation; surface wettability.

Publication types

  • Editorial