Polymer ReviewsPub Date : 2025-07-02DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2025.2524625
Carolina A. M. Ferreira, Marco F. L. Lemos, Ana Colette Maurício, Juliana R. Dias
{"title":"Current Strategies to Produce 3D Electrospun-Based Wound Dressings for Skin Regeneration","authors":"Carolina A. M. Ferreira, Marco F. L. Lemos, Ana Colette Maurício, Juliana R. Dias","doi":"10.1080/15583724.2025.2524625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2025.2524625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20326,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Reviews","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer ReviewsPub Date : 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2025.2524627
Wei Keat Ng, Wai Yin Wong, Chun Yik Wong, Kiranraj Vaiyanan Kannan, Kee Shyuan Loh, Norazuwana Shaari, Mohd Shahbudin Bin Mastar, Siew Hoong Shuit
{"title":"Advancements in Poly(Arylene Piperidinium)-Based Anion Exchange Membranes: From Molecular Design to High-Performance Applications in Fuel Cells and Water Electrolysis","authors":"Wei Keat Ng, Wai Yin Wong, Chun Yik Wong, Kiranraj Vaiyanan Kannan, Kee Shyuan Loh, Norazuwana Shaari, Mohd Shahbudin Bin Mastar, Siew Hoong Shuit","doi":"10.1080/15583724.2025.2524627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2025.2524627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20326,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Reviews","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer ReviewsPub Date : 2025-06-14DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2025.2511828
Kamran Foroutani, Sara Khademi, Sobhan Sharafkhani, Amirhossein Enayati-Gerdroodbar, Nasrin Afsarimanesh, Ali Zolfagharian, Mehdi Salami-Kalajahi, Behzad Pourabbas
{"title":"Conducting Polymer-Based Coatings and Thin Films: A Review on Film Processing and Deposition Techniques","authors":"Kamran Foroutani, Sara Khademi, Sobhan Sharafkhani, Amirhossein Enayati-Gerdroodbar, Nasrin Afsarimanesh, Ali Zolfagharian, Mehdi Salami-Kalajahi, Behzad Pourabbas","doi":"10.1080/15583724.2025.2511828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2025.2511828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20326,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Reviews","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144289844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer ReviewsPub Date : 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2025.2517100
Guo-Qi Ma, Lei Li, Jun Lei, Gan-Ji Zhong, Zhong-Ming Li
{"title":"Advances in Synthetic Biodegradable Polymers: Scaled-up Structuring and High Performance","authors":"Guo-Qi Ma, Lei Li, Jun Lei, Gan-Ji Zhong, Zhong-Ming Li","doi":"10.1080/15583724.2025.2517100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2025.2517100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20326,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Reviews","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144288304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer ReviewsPub Date : 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2025.2512945
Aleksandra Domke, Marta Woźniak-Budych, Katarzyna Staszak
{"title":"Enhancing Hemodialysis Through Advanced Polymeric Membranes and Improved Material Additives","authors":"Aleksandra Domke, Marta Woźniak-Budych, Katarzyna Staszak","doi":"10.1080/15583724.2025.2512945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2025.2512945","url":null,"abstract":"Chronic kidney disease (CKD) impacts around 10% of the global population and is expected to be one of the leading causes of death by 2040. Around 70% of patients with renal diseases need long-term hemodialysis (HD), while 30% require transplantation. The prolonged HD therapy can lead to severe side effects related to the membrane’s biocompatibility and the interactions of blood components with the membrane material. Recent advancements in material science and chemical engineering have led to the development of hemodialysis polymeric membranes with improved surface characteristics and hemocompatibility. These innovations also involve selectivity, durability and new production technologies. This review discusses the main challenges in membrane fabrication and explores strategies for enhancing membrane performance. It examines the improvement of hemodialysis efficiency while minimizing the possible side effects through the surface modification of membranes and introducing additives (blending methods). Both surface-modified membranes and blended ones efficiently remove toxins and reject proteins. However, surface-modified membranes exhibit lower values of pure water flux (50-300 L/m<sup>2</sup>/h) than those modified by introducing additives (145-500 L/m<sup>2</sup>/h). It indicates that polymers modified by blending are less prone to the proteins’ adhesion on the membrane surface. These advancements have the potential to enhance patient outcomes in hemodialysis therapy.","PeriodicalId":20326,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Reviews","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144193209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving the Performance of Chitin Bioprocessing: Pretreating Chitin and Optimizing Active Enzyme","authors":"Bicheng Liang, Wen Song, Song Liu, Kecheng Li, Huahua Yu, Pengcheng Li, Ronge Xing","doi":"10.1080/15583724.2025.2471486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2025.2471486","url":null,"abstract":"Chitin, with its dense crystal structure, presents a formidable challenge in bioprocessing due to its insolubility in various solvents. To address this issue, researchers have devised two primary strategies to overcome this hurdle. The first involves pretreated chitin to loosen its structure and reduce its crystallinity, such as ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, KOH/urea, ultrasound, steam explosion, etc. This allows enzymes to have more contact sites with chitin, thereby improving the efficiency of the enzyme reaction. The second aspect is the use of biotechnology to modify chitin-active enzymes, containing optimization of the fermentation conditions, directed evolution strategies, enzyme immobilization, etc., to increase their activity on chitin crystals. This article provides references for improving the activity of chitin deacetylases or chitinases and the biotransformation of chitin into chitosan and chitin oligosaccharides through comments on the above two aspects.","PeriodicalId":20326,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Reviews","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Copolymerization of Ethylene With Polar Monomers by Group 4 Catalysts","authors":"Qian Li, Zifang Guo, Xinwei Li, Jian Chen, Shuzhang Qu, Yiming Wei, Zhao Wen, Wei Wang","doi":"10.1080/15583724.2024.2444674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2024.2444674","url":null,"abstract":"The research of copolymerization of ethylene with polar monomers catalyzed by group 4 metal complexes has gain substantial achievement, and the functional polyolefins, produced through the various structures of the catalysts and polar monomers, have already shown their unique applications in multiple fields. There are kinds of effective strategies to improve copolymerization activity and polar monomers incorporation: the structures of group 4 catalysts have been expanded from metallocenes to half-metallocenes and non-metallocenes; the new cocatalysts and catalytic systems have been developed; polar monomers are pretreated by masking agents; the functional groups of polar monomers have been largely enriched. In this review, the copolymerization of ethylene with polar monomers catalyzed by group 4 metal complexes are concluded and compared, and we are looking forward to summarizing the relationship between structure and reactivity of catalysts and providing advice for the design of catalysts. Moreover, the properties and potential applications of polar functionalized polyolefins are introduced.","PeriodicalId":20326,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Reviews","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142879781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer ReviewsPub Date : 2024-09-20DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2024.2406965
Jesús Molinar-Díaz, Andrew J. Parsons, Ifty Ahmed, Nicholas A. Warrior, Lee T. Harper
{"title":"Poly-Ether-Ether-Ketone (PEEK) Biomaterials and Composites: Challenges, Progress, and Opportunities","authors":"Jesús Molinar-Díaz, Andrew J. Parsons, Ifty Ahmed, Nicholas A. Warrior, Lee T. Harper","doi":"10.1080/15583724.2024.2406965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2024.2406965","url":null,"abstract":"Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is a lightweight, bioinert, high-performance thermoplastic that is beginning to see clinical use in orthopedic applications. PEEK outperforms conventional metallic counterparts in terms of reduced stress shielding and improved chemical resistance, making it highly suitable for implantable applications. However, despite its excellent mechanical properties, the elevated melting point (343 °C) presents significant challenges during manufacturing. Furthermore, PEEK requires surface modifications to enhance antibacterial, bioactive, and osseointegration properties suitable for <i>in vivo</i> applications. In this context, the present manuscript highlights current manufacturing challenges for implantable PEEK biomaterials and typical fiber reinforced PEEK composites. Emphasis is placed on reinforcements such as carbon fiber (CF), hydroxyapatite (HA) and titanium dioxide (TiO<sub>2</sub>), along with multi-material PEEK composites and their applications. Opportunities are identified to address these challenges, contributing toward the development of synergetic, multi-functional PEEK biomaterials suitable for long-term implantable applications.","PeriodicalId":20326,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Reviews","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142329515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer ReviewsPub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2024.2406973
Wenqi Wang, Shuang Guo, Fan Feng, Qianwen Li, Haojie Cai, Aline Rougier, Dongyun Ma, Jinmin Wang
{"title":"Research Progress in Polymer Electrolytes for Electrochromic Devices","authors":"Wenqi Wang, Shuang Guo, Fan Feng, Qianwen Li, Haojie Cai, Aline Rougier, Dongyun Ma, Jinmin Wang","doi":"10.1080/15583724.2024.2406973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2024.2406973","url":null,"abstract":"Electrochromic devices (ECDs) have broad application prospects in smart windows, low-power displays, anti-glare rearview mirrors, and so on. The electrolyte layer is one of the crucial components of ECDs acting as an interface layer between two electrodes to provide ions transport. Conventional liquid electrolytes have disadvantages of easy leakage, low safety and complex encapsulation, while inorganic solid electrolytes (ISEs) have very poor room temperature conductivity. Polymer electrolytes are composites consisting of polymeric matrices, solvents, conductive salts and curing agents, including solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs), gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) and composite polymer electrolytes (CPEs). They are widely used in ECDs because of their excellent ionic conductivity, superior electrochemical stability, high transparency and simplicity of processing. This review provides a detailed discussion of the types, mechanisms, characteristics and preparation methods of polymer electrolytes for ECDs. The latest research progresses in the design and application of CPEs based on poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) are highlighted, and the potential applications of polymer electrolytes in the field of electrochromism are reviewed. Furthermore, the future development of polymer electrolytes in ECDs with stability, significant coloration efficiency and high ionic conductivity is discussed.","PeriodicalId":20326,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Reviews","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142329511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}