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

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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

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Publication

Open Access Original Research Effect of EVA on the Unnotched Impact Toughness of PP/HDPE/EVA Blends by Duc Duy Huynh  , Hoang Phuc Nguyen  , Tran Quoc Thang Nguyen  , Thi Hong Nga Pham  , Quan Anh Pham  , Thi Van Anh Duong  , Van Huong Hoang  , Xuan Tien Vo  and Vinh Tien Nguyen Received: 29 May 2025;  Published: 24 September 2025;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2503015 Abstract Beverage bottle caps are usually made from two primary materials: PP and HDPE. In this study, the evaluation criteria were the unnotched impact toughness and the microstructure of PP/HDPE/EVA samples produced by injection molding. The samples were tested according to ASTM D256. PP/HDPE/EVA blends were prepared with various ratios: 47.5/47 [...]