POLYMERS Vol.67　No.10 October 2018

POLYMERS　Vol.67　No.10

COVER STORY
How to Enhance the Sense Feeling and Texture of Polymer Products

Polymer materials have a lot of excellent properties such as lightweightness, rustproofness, softness, hardness, chemical resistance, long-life, etc. On the other hand, people sometimes consider plastic products looking and feeling cheap and they are often considered as fake materials. For example, in order to improve the sense feeling of automotive interior materials, the manufactures enhance the plastics properties such as the touch feeling, texture and cool-feeling like metal. In addition to this, the polymer is applied to the improvement of the texture or moisture feeling in foods, cosmetics, clothes and so on. In this issue, various studies on the relationship between the sense feeling and textures of polymers through the measurement and digitalization of various properties are introduced.

Editors: KAWASHIMA, UNEYAMA, TERAO, and NAKAMURA

Digest for English Readers

574

Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ

577

Commentary

Quantification of Sensibility?

Katsuyoshi NISHINARI

578

COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews

Rheology in Daily Life	Yuichi MASUBUCHI	579
Objective Evaluation of Wearing Comfort	Mari INOUE	582
Perspective on Haptics Research using 3D Printing Technologies	Masashi NAKATANI, Hiroya TANAKA	585

PolyMANGA

588

COVER STORY: Topics and Products

Polymer with Normal Force Providing Moisture Feel of Lipsticks	Eiko TAMURA	589
Good Touch Feel Automotive Interior	Manabu TACHIBANA	591
Food Palatability and Food Texture	Takashi NAKAMURA	593

Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account

How to Survive as a Mercenary Researcher

Yusuke YONAMINE

595

Messages: “Work and Life”

Once-in-a-Lifetime Encounter

Mari MIYATA

596

Front-Line Polymer Science

New Development of Liquid Crystalline Polymer Research: Orientation Control and Application

Seiji UJIIE, Takeshi YOSHIMI, Masanori NATA

597

Messages from SPSJ

602

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