Meet the editors

Dr. Gülşen Akın Evingür, born in 1976, is currently working as Assosciate Professor at Pîrî Reis University, Istanbul, Turkey. She completed her BSc at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey and her PhD at Istanbul Technical University in 1996 and 2011, respectively. She has been engaged in various academic studies in the fields of composite gels and their optical, electrical, and mechanical properties. She has more than 40 SCI articles, 3

chapters, and 4 projects.

Professor Pekcan received his MSc degree in physics at the University of Chicago in June 1971. His PhD thesis was accepted in solid state physics at the University of Wyoming in 1974. He visited ICTP Trieste as a visiting scientist in 1980. He was a visiting scientist at the Technical University of Gdansk in Poland between 1980-1981. He worked as visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry between

1981-1988. He was appointed as full Professor at the Istanbul Technical University in Department of Physics and worked there between 1988 and 2005. He is currently the Professor at Kadir Has University in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Science Academy. He has more than 360 SCI articles, 25 chapters, and 10 projects.

Dr. Dimitris S. Achilias is a Professor of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Director of the Lab Polymers and Dyes Chemistry and Technology, and Vice-Head of the Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece. He completed his BSc and Ph.D. at the Chemical Engineering Department, AUTH in 1985 and 1991. From his research on the polymer thermo-chemical recycling, synthesis of polymer nano-

composites and polymerization or degradation kinetics, he has published over 145 research papers, with h-index 40 and more than 5000 citations (Scopus). He has been the editor of 2 books on recycling (IntechOpen) with over 120,000 downloads and is a member of the Editorial Board of Polymers (MDPI). He has participated in several research projects and holds 3 patents.

Contents

Mobility

Polymerization

*by Taofik Oladimeji Azeez*

*by Javier Carlos Quagliano Amado*

*and Andrés Felipe Rojas-González*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 35**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 73**

**Chapter 6 87**

*by Fernanda A. dos Santos, Leonardo B. Canto, Ana Lúcia N. da Silva,* 

Multi-Field Synergy Process for Polymer Plasticization: A Novel Design Concept for Screw to Facilitate Phase-to-Phase Thermal and Molecular

Cellulose-Based Thermoplastics and Elastomers via Controlled Radical

Thermoplastic Recycling: Properties, Modifications, and Applications

Thermal Resistance Properties of Polyurethanes and Its Composites

Recycled Polypropylene-Coffee Husk and Coir Coconut Biocomposites: Morphological, Mechanical, Thermal and Environmental Studies *by Miguel Ángel Hidalgo-Salazar, Juan Pablo Correa-Aguirre, Juan Manuel Montalvo-Navarrete, Diego Fernando Lopez-Rodriguez* 

*by Feng Jiang, Fenfen Wang, Chenqian Pan and Yanxiong Fang*

Processing and Properties of Plastic Lumber

*by Ranran Jian, Hongbo Chen and Weimin Yang*

*Leila Lea Yuan Visconte and Elen B. A. Vasques Pacheco*
