Stimuli and Solvent-Responsive Soft Materials: Industrial and Environmental Challenges
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全文截稿: 2024-07-31
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中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 化学 - 2区
• 小类 : 物理化学 - 2区
• 小类 : 物理:原子、分子和化学物理 - 2区
Overview
Journal of Molecular Liquids is currently running a Virtual Special Issue (VSI), which aims to illustrate the stimuli and solvent responsive soft materials with a special focus to roles of solvents and stimuli on properties and functions of soft matter. The outcomes from these approaches may address the industrial challenges for greener products, and not only offer basic understanding, but also some outlook on the cutting-edge research presently being carried out in this field. Communications, full length articles (Theoretical, experimental, and computational), mini- and full review articles are invited.
Guest editors:
Dr. Lakshmi Praveen PogulaEmail: plpraveen_phy@vssut.ac.in Affiliation: Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology
Dr. Dharmendra Pratap SinghEmail: dharmendra.singh@univ-littoral.fr Affiliation: Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)
Dr. Chih-Hsin ChenEmail: chc@mail.tku.edu.tw Affiliation: Tamkang University
Special issue information:
Soft Materials illustrate on all physical, chemical, biological, materials science, and industrial perspectives of soft matter. These stimuli and solvent-responsive materials have happened to be ever-increasingly essential for researchers in various trends that can be explicated by proficient applications in various technologies. These materials draw a unique consideration as they unite molecular self-assembly with simple organizing ability of their ordering degree, molecular alignment direction, and the consequent optical properties with responsive action. Stimuli and solvent-responsive materials have been progressively more used. These devices are intended to execute desired chores or interactions in unstructured situations due to their stretchability, built-in flexibility, and conformability. External stimuli such as heat, light, electric, magnetic fields, solvents, and various physical, chemical, biological media can be selectively used to activate the necessary ‘hot spots’ to meet industrial challenges and for greener products.
The solvent-responsive soft molecules and their properties are on special focus for analyzing their multi functionality. Even though the deep eutectic solvents (DES) proffer fantastic properties; it is highly essential to expand their applicability in diverse research fields, i.e. in catalysis, metal decomposition, medicine, and materials research. Compared to conventional solvents, DESs display exclusive properties. Many influential advantages viz. high thermal and chemical stability and recyclability etc. classify DESs as proficient green solvents. Further, they bear a similitude to some of the properties of ionic liquids, additional pre-eminence in biodegradability and sustainability. DESs overcome various shortcomings of conventional solvents which make them more attractive for their utility in the above mentioned research areas.
The fundamental concepts of and the state-of-the-art advancement on selection and modifications of soft functional materials towards fulfillment of industrial challenges for greener products require unique attention and an in-depth analysis on understanding of liquids and solutions based on intermolecular interactions. Further, these products are expected to provide potential applications in development of sensors, filters, modulators, various electronic, opto-electronic, opto-logic devices or biomarkers along with display technologies. Further, various effects that facilitates switch and direct the optical properties are very much essential to meet the industrial challenges. These phenomenologies also provide roots to understand multi-functionality, multi-material behaviour, and multi-phase problems at meso-, micro-, and nano-length scales.
Therefore, the special issue is intended to provide a chain-of-knowledge and an integrated approach ranging from design, modeling, synthesis, characterization and device fabrication to address industrial challenges for greener products of soft materials under various stimuli and solvents (conventional and DES) along with their future perspectives.
In this special issue, we aim to illustrate the stimuli and solvent responsive soft materials with a special focus to roles of solvents and stimuli on properties and functions of soft matter. The outcomes from these approaches may address the industrial challenges for greener products, and not only offer basic understanding, but also some outlook on the cutting-edge research presently being carried out in this field. Communications, full length articles (Theoretical, experimental, and computational), mini- and full review articles are invited.
Various featured themes include, but are not limited to:
Liquid crystals and ionic liquid crystals: New materials, molecular interactions of liquid crystals at air/liquid interface, phase transitions and applications
Behaviour of liquids and solutions
Soft biological materials and their behaviour in different solutions
Complex fluids and their behaviour
Langmuir-Blodgett films
Granular and active matter
Soft interfaces, surfactants: Molecular phenomenon at liquid-liquid and liquid-solid interfaces
Gels, polymers, colloids and elastomers
Supramolecular and green material systems
Molecular recognition, amphiphiles, and foams
Self-assembly of nanomaterials in eutectic solvents and colloidal solutions
Stimuli and Solvent-response studies of soft materials