Advanced Materials Characterization
A section of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Section Information
The section "Advanced Materials Characterization" focuses on contributions that have a significant component linked to the (advanced) structural characterization of solid materials. In many applications, the exact structure, crystal structure, position of the functional groups, and other structural parameters have a significant effect on the characteristics and properties of the material. These are commonly known as "structure–property" or "structure–activity" relationships.
Advanced spectroscopic techniques are able to describe the structure and configurations in materials in great detail. "Operando" spectroscopic techniques or hyphenated techniques are becoming more and more sophisticated. Synchrotron X-Ray techniques show the structure and the neighbors of any given atom in a material, and microscopic techniques are reaching atomic resolution. NMR and EPR and their multidimensional variants reveal more and more information about the proximity of neighboring atoms. Gas sorption techniques reveal pore sizes and pore shapes. Luminescence, electrochemistry, and photo-responsive measurements are just a few examples of the many tools scientists have to unravel the secrets of solid materials. Scientists specializing in modeling techniques are in constant interaction with experimentalists to get a deeper insight into solid material and its changes and interactions with other molecules or external triggers. Such insights allow scientists to truly "design" materials towards very specific properties or applications.
Contributions that can relate the structural and functional information of a material to its specific properties and characteristics are highly welcomed in this section, together with all papers that describe an important advancement of any solid-state characterization techniques. Additionally, modeling papers with experimental input are welcomed.
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Two-Dimensional Materials and Nano Devices (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Locally Ordered Materials (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Application of Advanced Electron Microscopy in Materials Science (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Recent Advances in Thermoelectricity: Materials Processing, Characterization and Modelling (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Advances in Structural Analysis of Materials: Finite Element Modeling (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Advanced Materials: Process, Properties, and Applications (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- What's Next in Magnetoelectric Materials and Structures? (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- New Challenges of Coating Deposition Processes: Microstructure Evolution and Properties (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Conventional vs. Innovative Materials, Tradition and Innovation (Second Volume) (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- 3D & 4D Printing in Engineering Applications (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Characterization and Processing of Complex Materials - Volume 2 (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Experimental and Computational Methods for Materials Characterization (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Materials (Deadline: 10 July 2023)
- Advances in Structure Analysis of Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Materials (Deadline: 10 July 2023)
- Mass Spectrometry in Materials Science (Deadline: 10 July 2023)
- Advanced Materials and Technology: Energy Storage, Solar Cells and Photoelectrochemical Cells (Deadline: 10 July 2023)
- Pigments between Antiquity and Modernity (Deadline: 10 July 2023)
- Research and Modeling of Materials Fatigue and Fracture (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Behavior of Metallic and Composite Structures (Third Volume) (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Advances in Mechanical Characterization of Materials and Structures (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Advanced Diffraction Techniques (X-ray, Electron, Neutron) in Materials Science (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Advances in Mineral Processing, Waste Recycling and Extractive Metallurgy (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing for Advanced High-Tech Components (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Advances in Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials and Structures (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Analyzing Structures Using Soft Computing Techniques, Numerical Modelling and Finite Element Analysis (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- Damage Analysis for Composite Materials: Methods, Testing and Evaluation (Deadline: 10 August 2023)
- Microstructure Characterization of Materials: In Situ TEM Investigation (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Superhydrophilic, Superhydrophobic, and Slippery Surfaces (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Solders (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Advances in the Characterization of Materials (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Research of Pyrolysis and Conversion of Materials and Thermodynamic Characteristics (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Multiple Thermal Characterizations in Materials Science (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Advanced Materials for Multifunctional Applications (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Structural and Luminescence Properties of Glass (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Science and Technology of Advanced Materials Applied to Society: Including Collections from the Latest Papers of KRIS 2023 (Deadline: 31 August 2023)
- Smart Non-destructive Testing and Inspection of Engineering Materials (Deadline: 10 September 2023)
- Imaging and Microstructure Analyses in Archaeological Materials (Deadline: 10 September 2023)
- Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the Synthesis of Metastable Materials (Deadline: 20 September 2023)
- Advances in Structural Health Monitoring for Infrastructures (Deadline: 20 September 2023)
- Newer Paradigms in Advanced Materials Characterisation (Deadline: 20 September 2023)
- Micromagnetism and Magnetic Properties of Materials (Deadline: 20 September 2023)
- The 15th Anniversary of Materials—Recent Advances in Advanced Materials Characterization (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Experimental Study, Numerical Simulation & Structural Applications of Construction Materials (Deadline: 10 October 2023)
- Material Surface and Interface Measurement and Characterisation (Deadline: 20 October 2023)
- Advanced Materials for Biomedical and Nuclear Applications (Deadline: 20 October 2023)
- Visualizing Electronic and Structural Properties of Materials Using X-ray and Electron Beam Technique (Deadline: 20 October 2023)
- Engineering Materials in Extreme Environments (Deadline: 20 October 2023)
- Advanced Materials – Microstructure, Manufacturing and Analysis (Deadline: 10 November 2023)
- System Design and Materials for Accelerators and Compact Accelerator-Driven Neutron Sources (Deadline: 10 November 2023)
- Engineering Plasticity and Impact Dynamics (Deadline: 10 November 2023)
- Advanced Non-destructive Testing Techniques on Materials (Deadline: 20 November 2023)
- Mechanics and Analysis of Advanced Materials and Structures - 2nd Volume (Deadline: 20 November 2023)
- Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoparticles for Catalytic Application (Deadline: 20 November 2023)
- Advances in Materials under Extreme Conditions (Deadline: 10 December 2023)
- Study on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Welding Alloys and Steels (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- PVDF-Based Membranes and Applications (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Advanced Characterization Techniques on Nuclear Fuels and Materials (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- New Vibrational Spectroscopy Developments of Material Characterization (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Materials Dedicated for Armours and Protection Systems, Volume II (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Advanced Materials (ICSAAM 2023) (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- In Situ Characterization of Functional Materials via Electron Microscopy Techniques (Deadline: 10 March 2024)
- Obtaining and Characterization of New Materials, Volume IV (Deadline: 20 March 2024)