Improved Properties and Advanced Applications of Nanostructured Thin Films and Nanocoatings
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 3171
Special Issue Editors
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: Surface Science; Thin-films and coatings; Interfaces; Nanostructures; XPS and XAS spectroscopies; Synchrotron radiation spectroscopies
Special Issue Information
Nanostructured materials in the form of thin films and nanocoatings are of high scientific and industrial interest. In the last four decades, they have experienced continuous intense development because of the high demand for improved performance and advanced new functionalities required for their incorporation into technological devices as a general need common to most industrial developments.
Identification of the key microstructural features and/or the singular electronic configurations in these new nanomaterials and understanding how they are linked to their final performance is of utmost importance.
Today, nanostructured films and nanocoatings are integrated into technological devices such as solar cells, fuel cells, batteries, smart windows, electrolyzers, electrochemical or optical transducers, photocatalytic platforms, etc., which provides them singular or enhanced performances and represents a highly valuable improvement geared towards advanced applications.
In this Special Issue, we invite the scientific community working in this exciting field to publish recent research and/or review papers contributing to progress in the understanding of links between the improved properties of nanostructured thin films and nanocoatings and their advanced performance in particular applications.
Prof. Francisco Yubero
Prof. Dr. Leonardo Soriano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanostructured thin films
- porous thin films
- PVD
- glancing angle deposition
- sculptured coatings
- plasma CVD
- ALD
- PLD
- IBAD
- electrodeposition
- hybrid organic–inorganic coatings
- surface grafting
- surface functionalization
- optical sensors
- electrochemical sensors
- thin film solar cells
- gas sensors
