Call For Papers: PVCs & Plasticizers

Fifty years after Tabb & Koenig detailed Fourier Transformation Infrared studies of flexible PVC, the polymer science community continues to investigate the chemistry, physics, and applications of these ubiquitous polymers. Macromolecules encourages your contributions on PVC in a modern context: how have advances in manufacturing, recycling, and analyses facilitated polymer scientists’ understanding of PVC?

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Call for Papers, with no deadline set. Accepted papers will be published in-issue and curated into a Collection in the future on a rolling basis, as we consider how the field continues to evolve.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Polyvinyl Chlorides
• Sustainable, Recycled & Bio-Based PVCs
• Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
• PVC Recycling & Circular Economy
• Plasticizers & plasticization
• Spectroscopy, free volume analysis & polymer dynamics
• PVC Crystallinity
• PVC Toxicity

Organizing Editors

Prof. Marc Hillmyer, Editor-in-Chief, Macromolecules
University of Minnesota, United States

Submission Information

Macromolecules considers submissions of Research Articles, or suggestions of Perspective pieces. Manuscripts submitted for consideration will undergo the full rigorous peer review process expected from ACS journals. For more information on submission requirements, please visit the journal’s Author Guidelines page.

Open Access: There are diverse open access options for publications in American Chemical Society journals. Please visit our Open Science Resource Center for more information.

How to Submit

• Log in to the ACS Publishing Center.
• Select the "Journals" tab.
• Choose Macromolecules.
• Click "Submit."

If you have any general questions regarding submission, please contact Graham Smeddle (managing.editor@macromol.acs.org).