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Polymer International (PI) publishes the most significant advances in macromolecular science and technology.

PI especially welcomes research papers that address applications that fall within the broad headings Energy and Electronics, Biomedical Studies, and Water, Environment and Sustainability. The Journal’s editors have identified these as the major challenges facing polymer scientists worldwide.The Journal also publishes invited Review, Mini-review and Perspective papers that address these challenges and others that may be of growing or future relevance to polymer scientists and engineers.

Readership

Agronomists, Food Scientists, Agricultural Scientists, Biologists, Organic Chemists, Environmental Scientists

Topics

  • Biomedical Studies
  • Water, Environment and Sustainability
  • Energy and Electronics
  • Polymers and Polymer Materials

Related themes

Health & Wellbeing

Health & Wellbeing

Countering drug resistance, developing new medicines and pioneering treatments such as immunotherapy and CRISPR.

 Materials

Materials

From increasingly efficient solar cells to biodegradable packaging, biocompatible materials to ever-more sustainable building products.

Science & Innovation

Science & Innovation

Facilitating collaboration between multidisciplinary scientists, investors, lawyers, companies, institutions – the list goes on!

From the latest issue

Inorganic–organic polymer networks derived from a cyclic siloxane tetrafunctional glycidyl ether resin

A tetrafunctional glycidyl ether cyclic siloxane epoxy resin (TGTS) has been synthesized, characterized and cured with four aromatic amine hardeners: 1,3-phenylenediamine (PDA), diethyltoluenediamine (DETDA), 4,4-diaminodiphenylmethane (DDM) and 1,3-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene (APB). Each of the cured networks produces transparent and homogeneous networks, although when TGTS is cured with DETDA, reduced compatibility led to lower epoxide consumption, a more heterogenous microstructure and deleterious effects upon properties. Reduced miscibility of DETDA significantly impacts the chemical structure and microstructure of the network, resulting in significant reductions in thermal and mechanical properties but higher UV-A transmission. The PDA-, APB- and DDM-cured networks conversely were more miscible and display properties typical of organic–inorganic hybrid networks, such as good mechanical properties at ambient and sub-ambient temperatures, comparatively high glass transition temperatures, improved resistance to oxidation and lower UV-A transmission.

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Meet the Editor

Editor in Chief Timothy Long 

Prof Timothy Long
Affiliated Professor, Department of Chemistry
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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