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New Insight into Design and Properties of Nanomaterials (Third 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 September 2025 | Viewed by 1612

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Research Institute of Science and Technology, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
Interests: preparation and characterization of nanomaterials; laser ablation in liquid and wet-chemistry approaches to produce nanostructures; using nanomaterials to develop devices; thin films and coatings; materials characterization; gas sensing
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Department of Chemistry, University of Mining and Geology, Sofia 1700, Bulgaria
Interests: green synthesis of nanoparticles and photocatalysis; semiconductor nanomaterials and their characterization; laser ablation in liquid; metallic nanoparticles
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Dear Colleagues,

Nanomaterials have been a major focus of recent research and represent a milestone of nanoscience and nanotechnology. They are a broad and continuously growing area of development. Their impact on modern industry is huge, and boost both academia and education. Thus, the synthesis of novel nanomaterials, aiming at new potential applications, is fundamental in the development of high-tech industry and the implementation of scientific achievements in our daily live.

The goal of the third edition Special Issue on “New Insight into Design and Properties of Nanomaterials” is to attract manuscripts that present state-of-the-art studies on the preparation of novel nanomaterials with a wide range of applications, from optics and optoelectronics, photovoltaics, catalysis, sensing, biomedicine, and more. We also welcome reports on new or modified approaches that lead to new nanomaterials with enhanced properties, as well as those on new techniques that help to achieve such nanomaterials.

Articles published in this Issue will cover new approaches to preparation and characterization which smooth the route from the design to the realization of nanostructures with properties that are highly anticipated for various applications. Although we will abbreviate the submission of all reports on nanomaterials prepared by means of physical, chemical and even biological processes, special attention will be paid to products prepared via environment-friendly and reagent-saving methods. We especially welcome experimental and computational studies that reveal the relationship between structure and properties, and then demonstrate the synthesis of nanomaterials with desired structure and properties.

In addition to more conventional inorganic nanomaterials, research on the directed synthesis of molecular nanostructures (supramolecular assemblies, molecular frameworks, etc.) is also expected to enrich the content of this Issue. Papers developing our understanding of how the use of molecular precursors may govern the composition, morphology, and surface chemistry of nanomaterials also meet the objectives of this project.

Interested readers are welcome to read the papers published in previous editions of this special issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/special_issues/9A055LU85D, and https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/special_issues/design_properties_nanomaterials.

In summary, this Special Issue welcomes communications, full papers and reviews from all researchers working on novel nanomaterials, from their design to synthesis, characterization, and application.

Prof. Dr. Sergei Kulinich
Dr. Neli Mintcheva
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Keywords

  • novel nanomaterials
  • molecular nanostructures
  • physical, chemical, and biological methods for nanomaterial preparation
  • optical, photovoltaic, catalytic, sensing, antibacterial properties
  • structure-properties relationship

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Role of Composition and Temperature in Shaping the Structural and Optical Properties of Iodide-Based Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films Produced by PVco-D Technique
by Agnieszka Marjanowska, Krzysztof Wiśniewski, Przemysław Płóciennik, Bouchta Sahraoui and Anna Zawadzka
Materials 2025, 18(6), 1336; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18061336 - 18 Mar 2025
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The research considered in this publication aims to contribute to developing perovskite-based technologies by conducting basic research on perovskite materials. The materials described in the paper are thin films of hybrid perovskite MEAPbI3 made using the PVco-D method in three different compositions—perovskite [...] Read more.
The research considered in this publication aims to contribute to developing perovskite-based technologies by conducting basic research on perovskite materials. The materials described in the paper are thin films of hybrid perovskite MEAPbI3 made using the PVco-D method in three different compositions—perovskite samples differ in the percentage of organic methylammonium and inorganic iodide parts. This publication discusses the influence of the composition of the thin perovskite layer on its structural and optical properties and the influence of the temperature of the environment of the perovskite thin film on optical properties. To answer these questions, the surface topography was analyzed using the AFM method, spectroscopic measurements were carried out in the UV-Vis-NIR range, and photoluminescence measurements were performed in a wide temperature range—from about 80 K to 310 K. The results indicate that the composition changes the surface topography, forming increasingly higher crystallites (up to 606%) with increasing methylammonium content. The transition temperature from the orthorhombic to the tetragonal phase was determined for each composition at about 140 K. For the composition of 30% MEAI + 70% PbI2, the phase transition temperature from tetragonal to cubic was determined at a temperature close to RT. Full article
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Size Distribution of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Depending on the Temperature of Electrochemical Synthesis
by Michał Hajos, Maria Starowicz, Beata Brzychczyk, Grzegorz Basista and Sławomir Francik
Materials 2025, 18(2), 458; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18020458 - 20 Jan 2025
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One of the methods for obtaining zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) is electrochemical synthesis. In this study, the anodic dissolution process of metallic zinc in alcohol solutions of LiCl was used to synthesize ZnO NPs. The products were obtained as colloidal suspensions in [...] Read more.
One of the methods for obtaining zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) is electrochemical synthesis. In this study, the anodic dissolution process of metallic zinc in alcohol solutions of LiCl was used to synthesize ZnO NPs. The products were obtained as colloidal suspensions in an electrolyte solution. Due to the small size and ionic nature of the zinc oxide molecule, colloidal nanoparticles tend to cluster into larger groupings, so the size of nanoparticles in solutions will differ from the size of nanoparticles observed in ZnO powders after solvent evaporation. The main goal of this research is to investigate the influence of the temperature of synthesis and the kind of alcohol on the size of ZnO NP micelles. Nanocrystals of zinc oxide were obtained in all tested alcohols: methanol, ethanol, and 1-propanol. The particle size was determined using the Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) method. It was observed that the particles synthesized in methanol were the largest, followed by smaller particles in ethanol, while the smallest particles were obtained in 1-propanol. Additionally, the particles obtained in ethanol were the most uniform in size, showing the highest level of size homogeneity. Full article
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