Advanced Functional Nanomaterials and Their Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 174948
Special Issue Editors
Interests: semiconductor nanotechnology; functional nanomaterials; sensors; electronic and energy devices; environmental remediation; bio-applications of functional nanomaterials
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Interests: semiconductor nanostructures; optical properties; energy transfer; sensors; carbon dots from biowaste
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few decades, there has been great and unpredicted progress in the synthesis, characterization, and potential applications of functional and tailored advanced nanomaterials. Advanced functional nanomaterials have shown their applicability for a range of technologies because of their enhanced and improved physical, chemical, and functional properties. Such functional advanced nanomaterials are used for variety of potential applications, from electronics to sensor devices to energy, environmental, and medical fields. Including widely-used metal and metal oxide nanomaterials, carbon based materials, such as single-walled or multi-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs or MWCNTs) and graphene oxide (GO), carbon dots, polymeric nanomaterials, biomaterials, and so on, have attracted a great deal of attention from researchers due to their enhanced properties and wide applications. The rapid development of functional nanomaterials provides the possibility of designing better and unique devices with outstanding properties.
Functional nanomaterials have been attracting a great deal of interest in diverse areas, in recent decades, largely because of their unprecedented chemical and physical properties. Within this context, extensive research efforts have been devoted to the development of new science, in terms of their synthesis, engineering, and functionalization. For instance, graphene represents a relatively new addition to carbon-based functional materials. With its unique two-dimensional sheet-like structure, graphene and its derivatives open up a new chapter in the manipulation of nanomaterial properties and functions. The utilization of such novel materials in nanoelectronics, energy science, and biological applications have started to emerge.
This Special Issue is a timely approach to survey recent progress in area of functional nanomaterials and their applications. The articles presented in this Special Issue will cover various topics, ranging from materials preparation, engineering, functionalization, and their various applications, such as sensors (chemical, biological, gas, and so on), environmental remediation, biological labeling, fuel cell, electrocatalysis, catalysis, photocatalysis, electronic devices, bio-applications of nanomaterials, and so on. Certainly, the coverage is not complete, but it is our intension that this Special Issue will offer a unique glimpse of what has been achieved and what remains to be explored in functional nanomaterials.
The special issue will cover the following topics (but not limited to):
- Synthesis and characterizations of functional nanomaterials
- Sensors (bio, chemical, gas, optical, etc.)
- Photocatalysis,
- Catalysis
- Environmental remediation
- Electronic devices
- Energy devices
- Bio applications of functional nanomaterials
- Theoretical studies, etc.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit review articles, original papers and communications for this Special Issue "Advanced Functional Nanomaterials and Their Applications".
Prof. Ahmad Umar
Prof. Sotirios Baskoutas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- functional nanomaterials
- sensors
- photocatalysis
- catalysis
- environmental remediation
- electronic devices
- energy devices
- bio applications
- theoretical studies
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