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A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".

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Prof. Dr. Katsuhiko Ariga

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Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1‐1, Namiki, Tsukuba 305‐0044, Japan
Interests: supramolecular chemistry; interfacial science; thin films; molecular recognition; nanoarchitectonics
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Prof. Dr. Rawil Fakhrullin

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Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kreml uramı 18, Kazan 420008, Russia
Interests: drug delivery vehicles; tissue engineering; clay nanomaterials; colloid chemistry; correlative microscopy; cell surface engineering; nanotoxicology; spectroscopy
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Dear Colleagues,

After our successful first two volumes of the Special Issue “Nanoarchitectonics in Materials Science”, we decided to produce an additional Special Issue on this topic. Nanotechnology is now evolving and paving the way for a new kind of materials science—nanoarchitectonics. Bottom-up approaches that generate functional materials via 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 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, structural control, sensing, catalysis, environmental remediation, energy production and storage, device formation, biology, and medicine. These topics are the subject of this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Katsuhiko Ariga
Prof. Dr. Rawil Fakhrullin
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Keywords

nanoarchitectonics
nanomaterial
nanocomposite
nanofiber
nanoparticle
nanocoating
nanocatalyst
self-assembly
bottom-up approach
hierarchical structure
synthesis
structural control
environmental
energy
biomedical

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24 pages, 11089 KiB

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Numerical Investigation on the Performance of Compressible Fluid Systems in Mitigating Close-Field Blast Effects on a Fiber Circle

by Wei Zhu, Wenjin Yao, Jian Liu, Yu Zheng, Wenbin Li and Xiaoming Wang

Materials 2025, 18(10), 2204; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18102204 - 10 May 2025

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Nanoporous material liquid systems (NMLSs) demonstrate promising potential for blast protection due to their high energy absorption density. This investigation numerically evaluated the use of NMLSs in mitigating blast effects on fiber–composite circular structures. The coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian method was employed to establish the numerical models of fiber alone, water–fiber, and NMLS–fiber, subjected to the internal close-field blast loading. The simulations focused on a widely studied NMLS, nanoporous silica particles immersed in distilled water. Four NMLSs, featuring varying particle-to-water ratios yet identical densities to that of water, were designed to modulate the energy absorption capacity while maintaining identical mass. These NMLSs were modeled by Equation of State (EOS) compaction. The dynamic responses of the fiber circles in the simulations were compared to evaluate the blast mitigation of different liquids. When the explosive mass was relatively small or medium, both the water and NMLSs exhibited blast mitigation. The NMLSs outperformed water because the energy absorption capacity caused a greater attenuation of blast pressure in the NMLSs. In the small-mass explosive cases, all four NMLSs could rapidly reduce the blast pressure to the infiltration pressure but their wave impedances decreased as the particle-to-water ratio increased, resulting in that a NMLS with greater energy absorption capacity, however, had inferior blast mitigation performance. When the explosive mass was relatively large, all the fiber circles experienced significant fiber failure and only the NMLS with the greatest energy absorption capacity exhibited blast mitigation. Full article

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High-Efficiency Adsorption Removal of Congo Red Dye from Water Using Magnetic NiFe₂O₄ Nanofibers: An Efficient Adsorbent

by Hellen C. T. Firmino, Emanuel P. Nascimento, Keila C. Costa, Luis C. C. Arzuza, Rondinele N. Araujo, Bianca V. Sousa, Gelmires A. Neves, Marco A. Morales and Romualdo R. Menezes

Materials 2025, 18(4), 754; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18040754 - 8 Feb 2025

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The pollution caused by organic dyes in water bodies has become a major environmental issue, and removing such pernicious dyes presents an immense challenge for the scientific community and governments. In this study, a sorbent based on nickel ferrite (NiFe₂O₄) fibers was fabricated by the solution blow spinning (SBS) method for the adsorptive removal of anionic Cong red (CR) dye. The cubic–spinel structure and the magnetic and porous nature of NiFe₂O₄ were confirmed by XRD, magnetometry, BET, and SEM analyses. The saturation magnetization confirmed the magnetic nature of the fibers, which favorably respond to an external magnetic field, facilitating separation from a treated solution. The sorption kinetics of CR on NiFe₂O₄ were best described by the pseudo-second-order model, while sorption equilibrium agreed best with the Freundlich, Langmuir, Sips, and Temkin isotherm models, suggesting a complex mechanism involving chemisorption, monolayer coverage, and heterogeneous adsorption. The NiFe₂O₄ fibers annealed at 500 °C showed a high CR removal efficiency of ~97% after only 30 min. The sorbent’s porous structure and high specific surface area were responsible for the improved removal efficiency. Finally, the results indicated the potential of the NiFe₂O₄ fibers in the remediation of water contaminated with Congo red dye. Full article

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Green Preparation of S, N Co-Doped Low-Dimensional C Nanoribbon/C Dot Composites and Their Optoelectronic Response Properties in the Visible and NIR Regions

by Xingfa Ma, Xintao Zhang, Mingjun Gao, You Wang and Guang Li

Materials 2024, 17(17), 4167; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17174167 - 23 Aug 2024

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The green production of nanocomposites holds great potential for the development of new materials. Graphene is an important class of carbon-based materials. Despite its high carrier mobility, it has low light absorption and is a zero-bandgap material. In order to tune the bandgap and improve the light absorption, S, N co-doped low-dimensional C/C nanocomposites with polymer and graphene oxide nanoribbons (the graphene oxide nanoribbons were prepared by open zipping of carbon nanotubes in a previous study) were synthesized by one-pot carbonization through dimensional-interface and phase-interface tailoring of nanocomposites in this paper. The resulting C/C nanocomposites were coated on untreated A4 printing paper and the optoelectronic properties were investigated. The results showed that the S, N co-doped C/C nanoribbon/carbon dot hybrid exhibited enhanced photocurrent signals of the typical 650, 808, 980, and 1064 nm light sources and rapid interfacial charge transfer compared to the N-doped counterpart. These results can be attributed to the introduction of lone electron pairs of S, N elements, resulting in more transition energy and the defect passivation of carbon materials. In addition, the nanocomposite also exhibited some electrical switching response to the applied strain. The photophysical and doping mechanisms are discussed. This study provides a facile and green chemical approach to prepare hybrid materials with external stimuli response and multifunctionality. It provides some valuable information for the design of C/C functional nanocomposites through dimensional-interface and phase-interface tailoring and the interdisciplinary applications. Full article

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Nanoarchitectonics of Sustainable Food Packaging: Materials, Methods, and Environmental Factors

by Tangyu Yang and Andre G. Skirtach

Materials 2025, 18(5), 1167; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18051167 - 6 Mar 2025

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Nanoarchitectonics influences the properties of objects at micro- and even macro-scales, aiming to develop better structures for protection of product. Although its applications were analyzed in different areas, nanoarchitectonics of food packaging—the focus of this review—has not been discussed, to the best of our knowledge. The (A) structural and (B) functional hierarchy of food packaging is discussed here for the enhancement of protection, extending shelf-life, and preserving the nutritional quality of diverse products including meat, fish, dairy, fruits, vegetables, gelled items, and beverages. Interestingly, the structure and design of packaging for these diverse products often possess similar principles and methods including active packaging, gas permeation control, sensor incorporation, UV/pulsed light processing, and thermal/plasma treatment. Here, nanoarchitechtonics serves as the unifying component, enabling protection against oxidation, light, microbial contamination, temperature, and mechanical actions. Finally, materials are an essential consideration in food packaging, particularly beyond commonly used polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics, with emphasis on biodegradable (polybutylene succinate (PBS), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polycaprolactone (PCL), and polybutylene adipate co-terephthalate (PBAT)) as well as green even edible (bio)-materials: polysaccharides (starch, cellulose, pectin, gum, zein, alginate, agar, galactan, ulvan, galactomannan, laccase, chitin, chitosan, hyaluronic acid, etc.). Nanoarchitechnotics design of these materials eventually determines the level of food protection as well as the sustainability of the processes. Marketing, safety, sustainability, and ethics are also discussed in the context of industrial viability and consumer satisfaction. Full article

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Development and Applications in Intelligent Sports of Hydrogel-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators

by Guishan Feng, Yunlu Wang, Dongsheng Liu, Zihang Cheng, Qingyang Feng, Hongwei Wang, Wei Han and Changjun Jia

Materials 2025, 18(1), 33; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18010033 - 25 Dec 2024

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As an emerging self-powered technology, triboelectric nanogenerators have the characteristics of a simple structure, high conversion efficiency, diverse material selection, and stable output. Hydrogels have the advantages of flexibility, extensibility, and shape adaptability, which means that hydrogel-based triboelectric nanogenerators (H-TENGs) have high flexibility, self-healing abilities, conductivity, and fatigue resistance. They can still operate normally in scenarios involving bending, pressing, stretching, and folding. H-TENGs offer a method of versatile and sustainable innovation in sports monitoring. This review elucidates the working principles and modes of H-TENGs, examines H-TENG characteristics that are relevant to intelligent sports, and summarizes their applications in this field. This paper concludes with a discussion on the development and applications of H-TENGs in intelligent sports. Full article

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