SPECIAL ISSUE ON POLYMER AND FIBER RECYCLING

will provide a forum for the prompt publication of peer-reviewed, English lau-guage articles such as state-of-the-art reviews, full research papers, reports, noteslcommunications, and letters on all aspects of polymer and plastics tech-nology that are industrial, semi-commercial, andor research oriented. Some ex-amples of the topics covered are specialty polymers (functional polymers, liq-uid crystalline polymers, conducting polymers, thermally stable polymers, and photoactive polymers), engineering polymers (polymer composites, polymer blends, fiber forming polymers, polymer membranes, pre-ceramics, and reac-tive processing), biomaterials (bio-polymers, biodegradable polymers, hiomed-ical plastics), applications of polymers (construction plastics materials, elec-tronics and communications, leather and allied areas, surface coatings, packaging, and automobile). and other areas (non-solution based polymerization processes, biodegradable plastics, environmentally friendly polymers, recycling of plastics, advanced materials, polymer plastics degradation and stabilization, natural, synthetic and graft polymerslcopolymers, macromolecular metal com