Themed collection Recent Review Articles

This perspective discusses the development of IPMC matrixes and their applications, from actuating to multifunctional sensing.

Bilayer hydrogel actuators, consisting of two hydrogel layers with differing rates or proportions of swelling, have emerged as an encouraging category of intelligent materials.

Radical polymers hold great potential as solid-state conducting materials due to their distinctive charge transport mechanism and intriguing optical and spintronic properties resulting from their singly occupied molecular orbital energy levels.

Realizing organic electronics through the realm of ionic liquids and polymerized ionic liquids.

Polymer composites with a 3D graphene scaffold for EMI shielding are discussed. Numerical formulations to optimize the structural and geometrical parameters that are suitable to achieve an absorption-dominated shielding mechanism have been presented.

Biomaterials made of polymers has shown significant progress for periodontal regeneration and the treatment of periodontitis due to their superior properties such as controlled bioactive molecule delivery and 3D bioprintability.

This review is structured to outline the applications of MIPs as environmental separation tools and assess the role of functional groups as a parameter influencing MIP performance.

This review analyzes plastic carbonization with respect to existing utilization methods and details its use for production of activated carbon.