Photonics and Plasmonics: New Challenges for Optical Nanostructured Materials in Sensing, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your papers about optical nanomaterials with plasmonic or photonic features to this Special Issue of Chemosensors.

Optical nanomaterials are among the most active research topics. Optical regimes, such as diffraction in photonic crystals, absorption of plasmonic nanostructures, as well as color switching systems, refraction of assembled birefringent nanostructures, and emission of nanomaterials, are of great interest, both for the pure scientific interest and for the many applications in which they are potentially involved. This Special Issue aims to be an opportunity to collect experimental and theoretical research works in these areas, giving space to the design, preparation, characterization, simulations, and applications of these innovative and promising optical materials.

We invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue; full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

The focuses of this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Design of nanomaterials for photonics or plasmonics;
• Development and preparation methods for photonic or plasmonic nanomaterials;
• Structure–property relationships in photonic or plasmonic nanomaterials;
• Theoretical simulations of photonic and plasmonic nanostructures;
• Metal nanoparticles/polymers hybrid materials in plasmonic and photonic applications;
• Photonic or plasmonic nanomaterials for sensing and biosensing;
• Photonic or plasmonic nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage.

Dr. Iole Venditti
Dr. Paolo Prosposito
Dr. Alessandra Paladini
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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