Mixed Metal Oxides, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Inorganics (ISSN 2304-6740). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 852
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multifunctional metal oxides; catalysts; microstructure; physical properties; nanoparticles; nanoclusters; nanocomposites; solid-state chemistry
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Interests: luminescence; sol-gel synthesis; inorganics compounds; materials research; garnets
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue, “Mixed Metal Oxides”, published in Inorganics in 2018, collected ten excellent papers and attracted many potential readers and authors. Meanwhile, the second edition of this Special Issue, entitled “Mixed Metal Oxides II”, published in 2024, collected nine papers and received more than 19,000 views (as of 7 April 2025). This has encouraged us to build upon the success of the previous two Issues. Therefore, we would like to open a third edition in this Special Issue, “Mixed Metal Oxides, 3rd Edition”.
Developments in materials and nanomaterials science, combining different sciences, have brought us to another level of understanding of the properties of mixed-metal oxides. As mentioned previously, the area of application of mixed-metal oxides is very broad, and covers almost all aspects of human life. Therefore, the development of novel materials is a fundamental focal point of chemical research, particularly inorganic chemistry. Owing to this wide and diverse application potential of mixed-metal oxides, chemical routes for the preparation of pure and/or homogeneously doped different systems are still highly desirable. The quality of synthetic materials is highly dependent on the overall characteristics and features of the synthesized powders. These attributes include density, purity, phase composition, crystallinity, particle size, particle-size distribution, particle morphology, and specific surface area. Thus, all the mentioned material properties are highly sensitive to processing conditions, which are very much responsible for the crystallinity, crystal shape, crystal size, crystal size distribution and phase purity of the resulting powders.
Many research groups worldwide use exploratory approaches targeting the development of new solid compounds and functional materials. The scope of this Special Issue of Inorganics is once again focused on the synthesis, characterization and application of mixed-metal oxides and related materials, which are important in all areas of our life. Contributions offering a detailed understanding of reaction pathways at the level of the most basic steps of the formation of solids via in situ methods (X-ray and neutron diffraction, thermal analysis, Raman spectroscopy, etc.) are sought after. Works describing the research and application of soft chemistry approaches in the synthesis of various advanced multifunctional materials, as well as bulk and thin films, will be very much appreciated. Furthermore, investigations on the preparation of mixed-metal oxides, biomaterials and nanomaterials using solid-state reaction, sol–gel, co-precipitation, hydrothermal and other synthesis methods are also desired. We look forward to your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Aivaras Kareiva
Guest Editor
Dr. Greta Inkrataitė
Dr. Dovydas Karoblis
Guest Editor Assistants
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Keywords
- multifunctional metal oxides
- catalysts
- microstructure
- physical properties
- nanoparticles
- nanoclusters
- nanocomposites
- solid-state chemistry
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