Functional Oxide Thin Films and Nanostructures: Growth, Properties, and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure and honor to invite you to submit your contribution to this Special Issue of Coatings entitled “Functional Oxide Thin Films and Nanostructures: Growth, Properties, and Applications”.

Recent materials nanotechnologies have brought possibilities of fabrication of oxide thin films in nanometric level, as well as of other nanocomposites. In parallel, recent measurement technologies can supply characterizations of their unique properties arising from limited regions of surfaces and interfaces. This Special Issue provides an opportunity to share surface-related science and engineering topics on oxide thin films and nanocomposites in an interactive and interdisciplinary manner. The ultimate goal is to elucidate commonalities and differences between multilayer interfaces and nanocomposite grain boundaries.

This Special Issue is intended as an effort to bridge the gap between materials science and the applications of oxide thin films and nanostructures.

In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Novel technologies to fabricate oxide nanomaterials;
• Flexible and mechanically rigid oxide materials;
• Wide categories of functional oxides (semiconducting, superconducting, magnetic, ferroelectric, multiferroic, optical);
• Understanding of structures and properties of oxide materials effectively exhibiting above functions;
• Similarities and differences between “normal thin films” and “ultrathin films and multilayers”, influenced by surfaces and interfaces;
• Similarities and differences between “normal composites” and “nanocomposites”, influenced by larger and smaller grain

Prof. Dr. Paolo Mele
Dr. Satoru Kaneko
Prof. emer. Tamio Endo
Guest Editors

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