Recent Advances in Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Their Applications
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023)
Editors
Interests: sustainable valorization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal oxide nanoparticles (MON) are now used in a wide range of structural applications that include desalination, water treatment, and medical, mechanical, and chemical engineering. The key aspect in the selection of MON and its composites in these applications are durability and efficiency. Although offering improved performance compared to traditional materials, the efficiency of MON under various environmental agents still requires a comprehensive understanding; this includes new composites (e.g., natural and synthetic composites) and new developing systems (e.g., bio-based). However, analytical models and design approaches that can accurately forecast the long-term performance of MON composites and structures have not yet been created.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions about the synthesis of different MON materials and their composites subjected to various applications (desalination, treatment, medical, etc.), acting individually or combined. Studies addressing the influence of MON, in laboratory or field conditions, on the chemical behavior and the structural behavior of novel-based MON fabricated materials and MON composites are also invited. The Special Issue will include regular research papers, including experiments, modeling (at various scales), design methods, and application in different methods. This Special Issue aims to collect and disseminate the most recent findings on the very relevant topic of the development of MONs and their composites.
The potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Fabrication and characterization of different metal oxide nanoparticles;
- Highlight recent developments of metal oxide nanoparticles;
- Computational simulation and theoretical modeling of metal oxide nanoparticles;
- The various applications regarding the utilization of metal oxide nanoparticles.
We hope that this Special Issue will depict current state-of-the-art metal oxide nanoparticles and their applications, as well as provide an overview of what is being accomplished.
Dr. Mona T. Al-Shemy
Dr. Yousra H. Kotp
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal oxide nanoparticles
- metal oxide characterization
- metal oxide development and hybrid
- metal oxide nanocomposites
- computational simulation and theoretical modeling
- applications and assessments of metal oxide nanoparticle-based materials
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