Surfaces, Interfaces and Recycling from Reactive and Functional Polymers: Editor’s Insights

Abstract

Surface modifications and reactions on polymer systems have achievedto improve their performance as reactive and functional materials, compatibility ofpolymer blends, among others. Likewise, there is a great interest in the reduction ofplastic waste or its reuse. This has been more recently addressed by reactive polymerprocessing or the use of reactive and functional polymers per se with the aim ofreducing pollution from conventional petroleum-derived polymers. With this chapter,we open these main topics that will be analyzed in this volume.