Themed collection Recent Review Articles

This perspective highlights key challenges and opportunities in the rapidly evolving field of confined polymers and their practical applications, with special focus on those related to optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices.

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.

This article provides an essential reading resource to the field of inverse vulcanisation, condensing all the necessary knowledge and techniques for new starting researchers to become invested in the field, whilst avoiding technical pitfalls.

Polyurethane (PU) is extensively utilized for its outstanding properties.

Functional polymeric interfaces for various biomedical applications can be obtained in a modular fashion using ‘click’-based transformations.

This review presents a through literature survey covering methods of synthesis of Se/Te chalcogen- and their chalcogenide-based polyaniline nanocomposites and their properties and potential application.

The utilization of NIR-IIa Pdots has addressed critical limitations in deep-tissue imaging in the NIR-IIa region by utilizing the advantages of reduced light scattering, diminished autofluorescence, and decreased light absorption by biospecies.

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

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

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.