Thin Films and Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 117
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanostructured materials; nanostructured devices; materials for organic and inorganic solar cells; light emitters with nanomaterials; light sensors
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of thin film and nanomaterial technologies for different applications, such as in solar cells, sensors, LEDs, and different circuit-integrated systems, will continue to drive the growing demand for the entire semiconductor industry. Research on thin films and nanomaterials has significantly increased over the last decade due to the scientific interest shown for their quantum properties and the vision of implementing these quantum properties in photonic applications. Some other important applications, in general, have been envisioned by scientists to be within areas of energy, environmental remediation, nanobiology, nanomedicine, flexible electronics, etc. Additionally, some of these thin films and nanomaterials can be prepared easily at a low cost and have several of their properties controlled.
This Special Issue aims to present and highlight recent advances in thin film and nanomaterial research using various techniques, as well as their interesting applications. The properties and fabrication of thin films and nanomaterials are also included. We hope that this Special Issue will be of interest to all researchers developing thin films and nanomaterials for different technological applications.
This Special Issue entitled “Thin Films and Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications” aims to present novel research and work on thin films and nanomaterials, design and optimization, properties, and preparations for all thin films and nanomaterials. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Synthesis and properties of thin films;
- Nanomaterial-based functional thin films;
- Nanomaterials based on organic and/or inorganic semiconductor materials;
- Transparent conductor oxide thin films;
- Metal oxides, semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, carbon nanomaterials;
- Thin film and nanomaterial characterization;
- Fabrication of thin films and nanomaterials employing nanotechnologies;
- Applications of thin films and nanomaterials for energy, environmental remediation, nanobiology, nanomedicine, flexible electronics, and so on.
- Devices
Dr. José Alberto Luna López
Dr. Dainet Berman-Mendoza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- thin films
- semiconductors
- transparent conductor oxides
- devices
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