Self-Assembled Materials and Bottom-Up Fabrication
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 5707
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Interests: materials for nanoelectronics; patterning materials; dielectrics; metals; area selective deposition; thin films; self-assembled monolayers; ALD; CVD; PVD; lithography; photoresist; directed self-assembly; colloids and nanoparticles
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of science and technology of advanced materials using nanoscale units can be conducted by a novel concept involving a combination of nanotechnology methodology with various research disciplines, especially supramolecular chemistry. The novel concept is called ‘nanoarchitectonics’, where self-assembly processes are crucial in many cases involving a wide range of component materials. Self-assembled materials include variously structured objects including molecular machines, molecular receptors, molecular pliers, molecular rotors, nanoparticles, nanosheets, nanotubes, nanowires, nanoflakes, nanocubes, nanodisks, nanoring, block copolymers, hyperbranched polymers, supramolecular polymers, supramolecular gels, liquid crystals, Langmuir monolayers, Langmuir–Blodgett films, self-assembled monolayers, thin films, layer-by-layer structures, breath figure motif structures, two-dimensional molecular patterns, fullerene crystals, metal–organic frameworks, coordination polymers, coordination capsules, porous carbon spheres, mesoporous materials, polynuclear catalysts, DNA origamis, transmembrane channels, peptide conjugates, and vesicles, as well as functional materials for sensing, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, photovoltaics, charge transport, excitation energy transfer, light-harvesting, photocatalysts, field effect transistors, logic gates, organic semiconductors, thin-film-based devices, drug delivery, cell culture, supramolecular differentiation, molecular recognition, molecular tuning, and hand-operating (hand-operated) nanotechnology. Self-assembly is a crucial component in the bottom–up fabrication of hierarchical supramolecular structures and advanced functional materials for various applications, from catalysis, energy harvesting and storage to nanoelectronics, photonics, biomedical, etc., which are the focus of this Special Issue.
Dr. Silvia Armini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Bottom–up deposition
- Self-assembly
- Self-assembled monolayers
- Material engineering
- Catalysis
- Energy harvesting
- Biomedicine
- Nanoelectronics
- Photonics
- Porous materials
- Nanoparticles
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