Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Inorganic Nanotubes
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 33489
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanotubes; imogolite; synthesis; X-ray scattering; liquid–crystals; molecular confinement
Interests: structure; dynamics; nanotubes; molecular nanoconfinement; X-ray and neutron scattering
Interests: inorganic nanotubes; functional interfaces; density functional theory; photo-electrocatalysis; energy storage; emergent magnetism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Material scientists, biomedical researchers, and engineers are turning their attention to inorganic nanotubes as hirearchically structured multifunctional nanocontainers for next-generation devices that could outperform current technologies for nanofluidic, molecular sieving, energy storage, and health applications.
Recently developed innovative synthethic approaches open the way for elaboration of a wide variety of inorganic nanotubes of tunable properties. Understanding and control of the structure–property nexus for metal–oxide nanotubes holds the key to application in many areas, such as enhanced chemical separation, photocatalysis, and catalysis, to quote a few. Together with further improvements in the scalabality of inorganic nanotube synthesis, advances along these lines are expected to accelerate the development of industrially viable technologies based on metal–oxide nanotubes.
The proposed Special Issue is intended to be a forum for the latest research in the synthesis, structure, and properties of inorganic nanotubes, including but not limited to sulphide, phosphate, oxyde, hydroxyde, polyoxometalate, and clay nanotubes. Both theoretical and experimental research is invited and welcome.
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
- Advances in synthesis of new inorganic nanotubes and growth mechanisms;
- Development of materials from these nanotubes (membranes, fibers, etc.);
- Characterization and modelling of structure, dynamics or chemical reactivity;
- Chemical modifications and functionalization of nanotubes and their relationships to surface properties (mechanical, chemical, electronic, etc);
- Developments in inorganic nanotubes applications, in particular for nanocomposites functional, molecular confinement, (photo)catalysis, and the environmental field.
Dr. Erwan Paineau
Dr. Pascale Launois
Dr. Gilberto Teobaldi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Metal–oxide nanotubes
- 1D porous clay minerals
- Hydrothermal synthesis
- Sol–gel chemistry
- Nanotube growth
- Density functional theory
- Force field and/or mesoscale modelling
- Molecular dynamics
- Nanocomposites
- Hydrogels
- Structural resolution, dynamics, diffusion
- Texture
- Properties (e.g., mechanical or electrical properties, catalytic activity, etc.)
- Applications in functional materials
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