New Trends in Functional Materials and Devices

Dear Colleagues,

Functional materials are of high interest due to their exploitation in many advanced areas: energy storage and conversion, environment, healthcare, sensors and actuators, modern electronics, spintronics, photonics, textile, wearable electronics, etc. This Special Issue is devoted to current progress in functional material design, simulation models, preparation, characterization, and devices for advanced applications.

The issue covers all types of functional materials with electrical, magnetic, ferroic, multiferroic, optical, sensing, piezoelectric, superconducting, catalytic, photocatalytic, thermoelectric, phase transforming, shape memory, and memristor properties and includes but is not limited to the following topics:

• Thin and thick films, nanostructures, nanocomposites, nanostructured coating systems;
• High surface area systems: colloids, nanoparticles, large interfaces;
• Fabrication technologies and characterization techniques;
• Surface and interface processes;
• Transport phenomena;
• Design and simulation models;
• Device developments: sensors, biosensors, actuators, memristors, solar cells, fuel cells, photonic, electronic, spintronic devices, etc.

We invite participants in the 13th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, Sant Feliu de Guixols, September 24-30, 2021, to send their manuscript to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Felicia Iacomi
Dr. Mirela Suchea
Prof. Dr. Emmanouel Koudoumas
Guest Editors

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