(ISSN 2689-5846)
Recent Progress in Materials (ISSN 2689-5846) is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. This periodical is devoted to publishing high-quality papers that describe the most significant and cutting-edge research in all areas of Materials. Its aim is to provide timely, authoritative introductions to current thinking, developments and research in carefully selected topics. Also, it aims to enhance the international exchange of scientific activities in materials science and technology.
Recent Progress in Materials publishes original high quality experimental and theoretical papers and reviews on basic and applied research in the field of materials science and engineering, with focus on synthesis, processing, constitution, and properties of all classes of materials. Particular emphasis is placed on microstructural design, phase relations, computational thermodynamics, and kinetics at the nano to macro scale. Contributions may also focus on progress in advanced characterization techniques.
Main research areas include (but are not limited to):
Characterization & evaluation of materials
Metallic materials
Inorganic nonmetallic materials
Composite materials
Polymer materials
Biomaterials
Sustainable materials and technologies
Special types of materials
Macro-, micro- and nano structure of materials
Environmental interactions, process modeling
Novel applications of materials
Publication Speed (median values for papers published in 2024): Submission to First Decision: 7.1 weeks; Submission to Acceptance: 14.9 weeks; Acceptance to Publication: 11 days (1-2 days of FREE language polishing included)
Special Issue
Recent Advances in Polymer Recycling, Experimental and Modeling Investigations of the Mechanical Behavior
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026 (Open) Submit Now
Guest Editor
Anissa Eddhahak, PhD, Associate Professor
Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Laboratoire Procédés et Ingénierie en Mécanique et Matériaux (PIMM), Paris F-75013, France
Research Interests: Polymers and composites; WEEE Polymer blend recycling; energy efficiency; phase change materials and smart building
About This Topic
Over the past years, recycling plastics notably from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) has been driven by both environmental and economic motivations. By blending some polymers together, a synergistic performance can be reached thanks to the compatibility of the recovered polymers, making thereby the polymer blends useful for many industrial applications. The compatibility can be described as the appreciation of the characteristics of the blend at the macro scale and this strongly depends on the characteristics of the polymers at the micro scale and the ability of their molecular chains to interact together to give rise to a blend with attractive properties. In this context, this special issue focuses on the recent advances in polymers recycling, starting from the challenges of the recycling process to the investigation of the effective properties of the polymer blends. More particularly, the mechanical behavior of polymers and especially the recycled polymers, remains still an under-researched area compared to virgin polymers and other materials due to the polymers complex microstructure subjected to local and global conformations which lead to a versatile mechanical behavior.
Keywords
Polymer; recycling; blends; experimental characterization; mechanical behavior; modeling
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.
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