Nanoarchitectonics in Materials Science

Dear Colleagues,

Nanotechnology is now evolving and paving the way for a new kind of materials science. This is nanoarchitectonics. Bottom-up approaches that generate functional materials by self-assembly of constituent molecules have been developed in several research fields. These approaches are often based on simple intermolecular interactions between a limited number of constituent elements. In a departure from these conventional approaches, nanoarchitectonics goes beyond the well-known self-assembly and related strategies. Rather, it aims to build material structures that contain many components and asymmetric, hierarchical motifs. Because nanoarchitectonics is such an exhaustive conceptual interdisciplinary field, it can be applied to a wide range of research areas, including hybrid/composite synthesis, various structural control, sensing, catalysis, environmental remediation, energy production and storage, device formation, biology and medicine. These topics become the subject of this special issue.

Prof. Dr. Katsuhiko Ariga
Dr. Rawil Fakhrullin
Guest Editors

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