Applications of Electromagnetic Functional Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 228
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Interests: modeling and simulation of nanoscale materials and devices; metamaterial absorbers graphene enabled absorbers; graphene-based photonic devices; quantum capacitance devices; photonic crystals
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Dear Colleagues,
The exploration of artificial materials for manipulating electromagnetic waves plays an increasingly important role in a wide range of applications. Functional electromagnetic (EM) materials such as metamaterials, plasmonic nanostructures, graphene-based metamaterials or metasurfaces have applications in both modern military and civil fields. Design of tunable and reconfigurable absorbers using functional EM materials over the microwave and terahertz regimes has drawn significant attention in electromagnetic compatibility, radar cross-section (RCS) reduction, energy harvesting, design of selective thermal emitters, etc. Graphene-based functional materials can be used to design tunable, flexible and transparent devices for photonic and optoelectronic applications. Other applications of EM functional materials include the development of energy storage and conversion systems.
This Special Issue aims to present cutting-edge progress in the applications of electromagnetic functional materials. The scope covers all the latest advances of theoretical and experimental research towards the development of highly efficient EM functional materials and devices.
We are pleased to invite you to submit original research articles and reviews.
Dr. George Kliros
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- EM wave shielding and absorption
- electromagnetic compatibility applications
- graphene-based EM functional materials
- EMI shielding polymer composites
- tunable and reconfigurable metasurfaces
- radar cross-section (RCS) reduction
- energy harvesting
- equivalent circuit-analysis methods
- multiscale design strategies of EM functional materials
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