Size-Dependent Effects in Materials for Environmental Protection and Energy Application (3rd Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026 | Viewed by 396
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Interests: solid state chemistry; materials for energy storage; lithium ion batteries; sodium ion batteries; electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; structure characterization; intercalation chemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Size-dependent effects in nanostructured materials (nanocrystalline, nanophase, or nanocomposite) are highly significant for both fundamental considerations and contemporary technology. When discussing nanostructured materials, the impact of nanoparticle/nanocrystallite size on surface energy, melting temperature, phase transitions, and phase equilibriums must be taken into consideration. Additional elements, including the non-uniform distribution of grain sizes, residual stresses and pores, interface structure, and grain boundary segregations, also impact the exploration of unresolved problems.
Understanding the size-dependent properties of materials continues to be one of the most challenging issues in advanced materials science. This is largely a result of the technological requirements involved in the development of materials with controlled properties, as well as of the recent progress in materials science, nanotechnology and computational chemistry.
The aim of the present Special Issue is to extend the discussion of the dimensional effects in materials for environmental protection and clean energy production as an innovative approach for the development of innovative materials with improved properties. The issue will comprise (but is not limited to) three main classes of advanced inorganic materials which form the basis of modern technologies:
-Materials and thin films for environmental protection;
-Materials for clean energy storage;
-Ceramics/bioceramics and glasses for better living (with applications in optics, molecular electronics and medicine).
Prof. Dr. Radostina Stoyanova
Dr. Albena Bachvarova-Nedelcheva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced inorganic materials
- chemistry of materials
- computational chemistry
- catalysts/sorbents
- electrode materials for rechargeable batteries
- hydrogen storage materials
- glasses and ceramics
- optics
- molecular electronics
- bio-compatible materials
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