Nanostructured Thin Films
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 February 2018) | Viewed by 33952
Special Issue Editors
Interests: process and chemical reaction engineering; scalable nanomanufacturing; multifunctional materials and devices; integrated chemical systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Nanostructured thin films are among the most exciting research areas in the field of functional thin films and coatings. The ability to control and tailor the material properties by tuning the nanoscale features provides exciting opportunities to develop novel thin film materials with tunable and multifunctional properties. Nanostructured thin films had found applications in various areas ranging from solar energy, battery, supercapacitor, chemical sensing, optics, heat tranfer, tribology, electonics, catalysts to automobile. For examples, nanoporous gradient thin films as antireflection coatings have opened a new way towards their field-use in low-cost solar photovoltaics and multifuctional nanostructured thin films have significantly enhance phase-change heat tranfer performance for thermal energy management. To support the continuing development of this growing research field, we are assembling a Special Issue of Coatings to encourage researchers worldwide to showcase their research papers, short communications, and review articles on this exciting research area.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Synthesis and growth of nanostructured thin films• Characterizations of nanostructured thin films
• Structure-property relationships
• Functional applications of nanostructured thin films for:
-Battery
-Catalyts
-Electronics
-Heat transfer
-Mechanics
-Optics
-Solar energy
-Sensors
-Supercapacitor
-Tribilogy
We hope to receive your valuable input and to make this a successful issue.
Prof. Dr. Chih-hung Chang
Dr. Seung-Yeol Han
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thin film
- nanostructure
- synthesis
- growth
- thin film devices
- nanomanufacturing
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