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The Section “2D and Carbon Nanomaterials” aims to publish original research and review articles on the fabrication, the characterization, the physical and chemical properties, and the applications of two-dimensional (2D) and carbon nanomaterials. The section is dedicated to the fast-gro...

The range of applications for nanotechnology is broad. In food and agriculture, nanotechnology is used for smart packaging, nanosensors, nanopesticides, and nanofertilizers to improve food quality as well as safety and promote crop growth. In wastewater treatment, nanoparticles, nanocomposites, and ...

The Section “Energy and Catalysis” aims to publish original and high-quality research, communications, articles, and review articles in the areas of nanoparticle design, synthesis and mechanistic aspects, modeling, and catalytic application of nanomaterials, with a particular focus on en...

The Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology section of Nanomaterials MDPI journal publishes high-quality research achievements in both fundamental and applied footprint across the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology that focus on rational design of nanomaterials and processes with substant...

The Section, entitled "Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks", is devoted to multidisciplinary research at the frontier between nanomaterials and inorganic chemistry, including metal-organic frameworks. These (multi)functional nanomaterials have become an increasingly popular field of res...

Nanocomposite bulky materials hybrid films, patterned structures, and core-shell particles are emerging as interesting functional materials with properties that go beyond the current state of the art in many different technological areas. This Section of Nanomaterials deals with all aspects of the d...

Nanomaterials are playing a critical role in the development of novel devices. Nanomaterials have unique characteristics which differ greatly from those of their bulk counterparts. These unique characteristics provide the basis for novel nanoelectronics, nanosensors and nanodevices which are able to...

The tuning of the morphology, size, porosity, organization, crystallinity, and chemical composition of materials at nanoscale, as well as their interfaces (surface charge, chemical function, hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity etc.), is crucial to control their properties and allow their applications in v...

The Section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices" publishes original high-quality research, communications, articles, and review articles in the broad areas of physics, chemistry, and engineering of nanomaterials and their interactions with light leading to devices with photonics applications. It wi...

The Section on Nanotechnology in Agriculture is dedicated to advancing research on the integration of nanoscale materials and technologies into agricultural systems and practices. It welcomes high-quality studies that bridge nanotechnology with sustainable farming, addressing global challenges such ...

The Physical Chemistry at Nanoscale section of the MDPI journal Nanomaterials publishes high-quality, high-impact research achievements that bring significant innovation to the study of the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials. Concerning the topics of this Section, specific emphasis is give...

The section “Solar Energy and Solar Cells” publishes original high-quality research, communications, articles, and review articles in the broad areas of solar-related materials, devices, processes, and technology as well as simulations, computational studies, and emerging machine learnin...

The Section “Synthesis, Interfaces, and Nanostructures” aims to publish original and high-quality research, communications, articles, and review articles in the broad areas of the chemistry of interfaces and of nanostructures. It will consider manuscripts dealing with the chemistry of i...

It is well known that nanostructures used in the area of nanotechnology are materials at 1–100 nm and most of them are synthetic and can be engineered to a wide range of physical properties. Nanowires, cylindrical nanotubes, quantum dots, thin films and quantum wells are common nanostructures....