Recent Advances in Graphene-Based Nanocomposites and Perspectives on Their Design
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Nanoscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2025 | Viewed by 21
Special Issue Editor
Interests: computational chemistry; tetrapyrroles; tetrapyrrole–fullerenes complexes; tetrapyrrole–graphene nanoparticles complexes; transition metal complexes; metal–organic frameworks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since its discovery, graphene, a material based on a single-atom thick layer of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, has attracted extensive attention due to its unique and remarkable properties, including excellent electrical conductivity, large theoretical specific surface area, significant mechanical strength, and exceptional thermal and electronic properties. It has numerous applications, encompassing engineering, electronics, medicine, energy, industry, and others. Graphene derivatives, such as graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (RGO), are oxidized forms of graphene; the latter is generally produced by GO exfoliation and is more popular than pristine graphene due to its better dispersion in water and numerous reactive oxygen-containing groups. Graphene-based nanocomposites also possess excellent mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, and chemical properties, finding even more applications than graphene alone in various areas, such as electronics, biomedical systems, sensors, solar cells, batteries, different materials, anticorrosive coatings, etc. Graphene, GO, and RGO can form nanocomposites with polymers, active carbon, metals and metal oxides, carbon fibers, etc. However, despite significant progress and advances in the design and study of various graphene/GO/RGO nanocomposites, different challenges still exist, including the nanocomposites’ limited lifetime, operational stability, reproducibility, and toxicity and limited related regulations.
Thus, we are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Graphene-Based Nanocomposites and Perspectives on Their Design”. In this Special Issue, original research articles, reviews, and perspectives are welcome on research areas that may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Synthetic approaches for the fabrication of graphene/GO-based nanocomposites;
- Synthetic approaches to limit graphene/GO-based nanocomposites’ toxicity;
- Experimental methods to characterize graphene/GO-based nanocomposites;
- Graphene/GO–polymer nanocomposites;
- Graphene/GO-activated carbon nanocomposites;
- Graphene/GO–metal oxide nanocomposites;
- Graphene/GO–metal nanocomposites;
- Graphene/GO–fiber nanocomposites;
- Graphene/GO nanocomposites with tetrapyrrole compounds;
- Graphene/GO nanocomposites with various quantum dots;
- Computational studies of graphene/GO-based nanocomposites;
- Versatile applications of graphene/GO-based nanocomposites;
- Challenges in the design, characterization, and application of graphene/GO-based nanocomposites and ways of overcoming them;
- Design of novel graphene/GO-based nanocomposites and their potential applications;
- Toxicity studies on graphene/GO-based nanocomposites;
- Graphene/GO-based nanocomposites’ regulation issues.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Aleksey E. Kuznetsov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- graphene
- graphene oxide
- nanocomposite
- synthesis
- computational study
- characterization
- application
- design
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