Bottom-Up Approach a Route for Effective Photonics, Chemistry, Sensing, and Fabrication at Nanoscale
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 8608
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Interests: plasmonics; nanophotonics; nonlinear optics
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Interests: photonics; optical processing; optics; non-linear optics; plasmonics
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Dear Colleagues,
With a view to creating large-area nanostructures with reasonable speed and low cost, the bottom-up approach is extremely effective.
Researchers in the field have studied and continue to investigate the possibility of creating nano-patterned structures that improve: the energy conversion yield of photovoltaic cells, the sensitivity of detection of chemical species through SERS or resonant nano-antennas, the performance reactivity of chemical reactions on appropriate substrates, the manipulation of the polarization of light to manage information at the nanoscale, photon wavelength conversion efficiency for applications in nanophotonics or quantum optics, and so on.
These are just some of the applications that are benefiting from the bottom-up approach, ranging from nano-fabrication to nano-photonics, bio-imaging, chemistry production, and sensing, to information technology.
The realized structures can be completely different in shape and size, for example: hybrid metal nanoclusters with organic precursors, colloidal dispersions in liquid phase (e.g., micelles), planar structures on flat substrates, 3D scaffolds, and many others.
In this Special Issue, we would like to present both reviews of the different self-assembly techniques with their applications and new contributions with papers devoted to recent results. If you feel that your contribution fits with the aims of this Special Issue, you are kindly invited to participate in this project.
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Belardini
Prof. Dr. Tomasz Szoplik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- self-assembly
- nanophotonics
- plasmonics
- nano-optics
- SERS
- optical nonlinear conversion
- photovoltaic conversion
- sensing
- imaging
- chemical reaction
- bottom-up approach
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