Special Issue: Conductive Polymers: Materials and Applications

Editorial of the Special Issue Antimicrobial Polymers

The special issue "Antimicrobial Polymers" includes research and review papers concerning the recent advances on preparation of antimicrobial polymers and their relevance to industrial settings and biomedical field. Antimicrobial polymers have recently emerged as promising candidates to fight microbial contamination onto surfaces thanks to their interesting properties. In this special issue, th...

Special Issue: Antibacterial Materials and Coatings.

Krasimir Vasilev 1,2,*, Alex Cavallaro 2 and Peter Zilm 3 1 School of Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5095, Australia 2 Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5095, Australia; [email protected] 3 Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; [email protected] * Correspondenc...

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Electrically conductive polymers and composites for biomedical applications

Electrically conductive polymeric materials have recently attracted considerable interest from academic and industrial researchers to explore their potential in biomedical applications such as in biosensors, drug delivery systems, biomedical implants and tissue engineering. Conventional conductive homopolymers such as polypyrrole and PEDOT show promising conductivity for these applications, how...

Ontologies and their Applications J.UCS Special Issue

After pursuing a long tradition of study in Philosophy, the term " ontology " has become the new buzzword in computer science. It is receiving special attention not only from an active community of researchers pertaining to many areas of informatics but also from the industry, which is providing increasing budgets and investments to develop this technology and make it available in business as s...