Layered Materials and Their Applications
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 23 October 2025 | Viewed by 163
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biocidal energetic material
Interests: mineralization; soil chemistry; minerals; mining; environmental science; earth sciences; geology; geochemistry; mineral processing; mineral exploration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Layered materials, with their structure consisting of stacked sheets, represent an interesting opportunity for developing new materials with tailored nanodesigns, controlled accessibility to the sites and properties, tunable pore size and volume, and a high surface area. The use of layered materials, both natural and synthetic (layered perovskite, anionic clays, and layered silicates), have a great variety of applications.
Another type of layered material is the layered double hydroxide (LDH), which has a very different structure than the layered silicates; the typical LDH has a Brucite [naturally occurring Mg(OH)2] structure, in which some aluminum ions substitute for magnesium ions to provide an excess of positive charge on the clay layers which must then be balanced by anions in the gallery space.
These inorganic matrices, historically representing a cornerstone of adsorbing materials, nowadays find application in ever wider fields, due to the simplicity of their synthesis and their ability to plan ad hoc structures for different applications.
We invite investigators to submit papers that discuss the recent developments and results about layered-based materials, with regard to their synthesis, growth mechanism, characterization, and applications. In particular, the submission of any study on the possible applications of layered-based nanomaterials is strongly encouraged.
The potential topics include, but, again, are not limited to, the following:
- Materials growth and film deposition by any method (co-precipitation, in situ, electrochemical, etc.);
- Structure and property characterization (XRD, TEM, SEM, dielectric, piezoelectric, electrical conductivity, EIS, ferroelectric, pyroelectric properties, etc.);
- Inorganic containers and nanocontainers (drug delivery, UV stabilizer, etc.);
- Anticorrosion coatings;
- Composite materials and nanomaterials;
- Biocompatibility;
- Antibacterial and osteogenic coatings;
- Advanced electrodes for supercapacitors, water splitting, and so on;
- Photocatalysis and light-induced CO2 reduction;
- Oxygen evolution reduction electrocatalysis;
- Delamination;
- Wastewater remediation;
- Dye removal and heavy metal filtration.
Dr. Anna Maria Cardinale
Dr. Cristina Carbone
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- layered materials
- LDH
- anionic clays
- composites
- structure–properties relationships
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