Recent Advances in Functional Nanomaterials: Discovery, Characterization and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2025 | Viewed by 3
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Background: Over the past fifteen years, the growing interest in novel functional nanomaterials and nanostructures in science and engineering has led to the prediction and discovery of countless number of nanostructures with unique topological, opto-electronic, magnetic, and mechanical properties. Recently, experimentally driven high-precision computational studies have become an effective tool in the prediction and characterization of unknown nanostructures. This symbiosis of computational and experimental approaches has led to the rapid development of unexplored nanostructures and their implementation into industrial projects.
The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for the exchange of recent advances in the theoretical and experimental design and application of novel functional nanomaterials and nanostructures. This Issue will be of interest to a broad cross-section of the scientific community in different areas of research, such as physical chemistry, materials science, and engineering.
This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality and original research, review, and perspective articles reporting theoretical and experimental results related to the following topics:
- Nanomaterials and nanotechnology;
- Computational materials science;
- Functional nanomaterials;
- Materials engineering;
- Materials chemistry;
- Energy materials.
Dr. Andrey Kistanov
Prof. Dr. Alberto Jiménez Suárez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanostructures
- density functional theory
- synthesis
- semiconductors
- optical and solar cells materials
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