Themed collection Editor-in-Chief’s choice – recent review articles

Presently there is much interest in the synthesis of degradable, more sustainable polymers from resources that minimize the use of petroleum-based feedstocks.

This review provides a comprehensive overview of solid-state polymer electrolytes performance characteristics of various chemical structures such as ethers, esters, nitrile and vinylidene fluoride.

Light-induced polymerization has become a very attractive technology for advanced manufacturing of polymers.

This review highlights the recent advances and synthetic routes for the development of different vanillin-based polymers, including thermosets, thermoplastics, and covalent adaptable networks (CANs), and their properties.

Molecular descriptors and machine learning are useful tools for extracting structure–property relationships from large, complex polymer data, and accelerating the design of novel polymers with tailored functionalities.

Herein, a review of the literature on polymerization shrinkage occurring in dental composites was presented.

This tutorial review of linear viscoelasticity is targeted at polymer chemists working with covalent adaptable networks. It provides an overview of concepts, analysis, misconceptions, and best practices for rheological experiments.

Characterization of polymer networks presents unique challenges due to the insolubility of the materials, but this also enables characterization by new techniques that take advantage of the bulk network structure.

We describe the theory and application of SEC-MALS with minimal equations and a focus on synthetic polymer characterization.

Multifunctional monomers enable the synthesis of polymer networks by adapting the polymerization methods used for conventional linear polymer synthesis.