Plastics, Rubber and Composites
Macromolecular EngineeringPlastics, Rubber and Composites (provides an international forum for the publication of original, peer-reviewed research on the macromolecular engineering of polymeric and related materials and polymer matrix composites. Modern polymer processing is increasingly focused on macromolecular engineering: the manipulation of structure at the molecular scale to control properties and fitness for purpose of the final component. Intimately linked to this are the objectives of predicting properties in the context of an optimised design and of establishing robust processing routes and process control systems allowing the desired properties to be achieved reliably.
The main areas of interest are:
- Processing of single and multiphase polymeric systems in quantified, controlled, or novel ways, across the length scales; novel processing technologies; rheology; process measurement, sensors, and control; formation of polymers by novel routes; recycling; choice and incorporation of additives
- Properties of these materials; tailoring of properties during processing; property-processing relationships; characterisation of products, across the length scales
- Modelling of processing and structure development (melt/solid/multiphase): numerical and analytical modelling; constitutive relationships; validation
- Measurement techniques for process control and materials characterisation
- Design methodologies, including knowledge based engineering design, and performance of end products
The journal's coverage will reflect growing common ground between the processing of polymers and of related materials in the fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biomaterials sectors.
| Professor P D Coates | University of Bradford, UK |
| Professor J J C Busfield | Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
| Professor Ludwig Cardon | Ghent University, Belgium |
| Dr Lee Harper | Nottingham University, UK |
| Professor Lief Asp | Swerea SICOMP AB, Sweden |
| Professor Anke Blume | University of Twente, The Netherlands |
| Professor Clive Bucknall | Cranfield University, UK |
| Professor Biqiong Chen | Queens University Belfast, UK |
| Professor Jose A Covas | University of Minho, Portugal |
| Professor Tibor Czigany | Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary |
| Professor Patrick Fairclough | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Professor Peter Halley | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Dr. Lee Harper | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Professor Patrick Lee | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Professor Shi-Jung Liu | Chang Gung University, Taiwan |
| Professor Yu Wing Mai | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Dr Tanja Kosanovic Milickovic | National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
| Professor Roberto Pantani | University of Salerno, Italy |
| Dr Dipa Roy | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Professor Costas Soutis | University of Manchester, UK |
| Professor Tom Turng | University of Madison Wisconsin, USA |
| Professor Erwan Verron | Central School of Nantes, France |
| Professor Qi Wang | Sichuan University, China |
| Professor Jinglei Yang | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR |
| Professor Bob Young | University of Manchester, UK |
| Professor Liqun Zhang | South China University of Technology |
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