PLASTICS RUBBER AND COMPOSITES

Plastics Rubber and Composites: Macromolecular Engineering 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 productsThe 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.

塑料橡胶和复合材料：高分子工程为发表聚合物及其相关材料和聚合物基复合材料的高分子工程的原始同行评审研究提供了一个国际论坛。现代聚合物加工越来越关注高分子工程：在分子尺度上操纵结构，以控制最终成分的性质和适用性。与此密切相关的目标是在优化设计的背景下预测性能，建立可靠的处理路线和过程控制系统，从而可靠地实现所需的性能。主要关注领域有：?通过长度尺度以量化、控制或新颖的方式处理单相和多相聚合物系统；新颖的处理技术；流变学；过程测量、传感器和控制；通过新颖路径形成聚合物；回收；添加剂的选择和加入?这些材料的特性；加工过程中特性的裁剪；特性处理关系；产品特性，跨越长度尺度?加工和结构开发建模（熔/固/多相）：数值和分析建模；本构关系；验证?过程控制和材料特性的测量技术?设计方法，包括基于知识的工程设计和最终产品的性能该期刊的报道将反映出精细化工、制药和生物材料领域中聚合物加工和相关材料之间日益增长的共同点。