Nanostructured Glasses and Composites: Innovations in Properties, Microfabrication and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D4: Glassy Materials and Micro/Nano Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editors
Interests: glasses; ceramics; colloids; thin films; photonic devices; nanostructured materials; inorganic synthesis; luminescent and photoactive materials
Interests: glass photonics; properties, structure and processing of glasses, crystals and film for optical applications and photonics; integrated optics; transparent glass ceramics; confined structures including photonic crystals, waveguides, microcavities, and microresonators
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Dear Colleagues,
Nanostructured materials play a significant role in the advancement of scientific research and engineering technologies due to their optical and physicochemical properties and potential applications. The unique electrical, mechanical, optical, magnetic, and thermal properties of nanostructured glasses that are not present in conventional bulk glass of the same chemical composition, have opened up new areas in research and a next-generation revolution in nanotechnology. The deformation character and thermal annealing of the amorphous structure can have a significant effect on the structural and mechanical properties of nanostructured glasses. Also, modification in the properties can occur in metallic glass by controlling the crystallization process and the glass transition behavior. The design, microfabrication, and optimization of various production parameters have also been a major focus of research in nanostructured glassy materials with desired pattern geometries. The nanostructured glasses and composites can be fabricated by many approaches, with each fabrication technique having advantages and disadvantages in terms of design flexibility, fabrication simplicity, and cost-effectiveness. The nanostructured glasses and their composites with enhanced functional properties can be used in different fields such as optomechanics, nanofluidics, biomedicine, solar cells, energy storage devices, sensors, actuators, optics, laser technology, lab-on-chip platforms, chemical and biological sensors, and sophisticated optical guided waves.
This Special Issue is dedicated to advances and new developments in the characterization, structure design, microfabrication processes, and applications of nanostructured glasses and their composites. Invited, contributed, original, and review articles should investigate the complex interaction between nanostructured glasses and composites, their properties that characterize product design at the nano-scale, and microfabrication processes. This Special Issue is not limited with respect to the type of nanostructured glass or polymer matrix and microfabrication approach. Authors are encouraged to report advances for both novel and well-established microfabrication approaches. The goal is to provide state-of-the-art examples of new developments in nanostructured glasses and composites and their innovative applications.
Submit your original work and join us in advancing research on nanostructured glasses and composites!
Dr. Dragana Marinković
Dr. Maurizio Ferrari
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanostructured glass
- nanostructured glassy composites
- glass stability
- metallic nanoglass
- structure and processing of nanostructured glasses
- structural relaxation
- innovative properties of the nanostructured glasses
- microfabrication processes
- contactless hot embossing process
- electrochemical etching
- molds
- mold fabrication methods
- anti-adhesion coatings
- lithography
- micromachining
- optomechanics
- nanofluidics
- solar cells
- energy storage devices
- sensors
- actuators
- optics
- laser technology
- lab-on-chip platforms
- chemical and biological sensors
- sophisticated optical guided waves
- bioactive glasses
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