Metal Clusters and Metal Complexes: Free Standing Species, Surface Stabilized Species, Species Under Confinement in Micropores or Inert Gas Matrixes
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organometallic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editor
Interests: materials; nanomaterials; microporous material; composite materials; syntheses; modelling; molecules and clusters in confinement; structure; dynamics; electronic structure
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Worldwide challenges such as safe and sustainable energy production, conversion, and supply, as well as globally recognized antibiotic resistance, early diagnosis, and treatment of diseases with high rates of fatality, heavy physiological injuries, and the corresponding ways of recovery are the focus of numerous research groups. These involve cross-disciplinary interaction between various fields, e.g., materials chemistry and physics, nanomaterials, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, biology, microbiology, and medicine. The world of inorganic and hybrid nanomaterials, on the other hand, has emerged as an ever-evolving framework for novel research in all aspects of science and applications.
This Special Issue aims to address the above issues by bringing together and highlighting recent research from fundamental physics and chemistry to the various synthesis methods and characterization of neutral and charged metal clusters and metal complexes, in the form of free-standing species, surface stabilized species, species under confinement in micropores, or inert gas matrixes. Equally important and welcome is research on the applications of energy and heterogeneous catalysis, combating antimicrobial resistance, microbial and viral infections, theranostics in cancer research, spinal cord recovery, and peripheral nerve regeneration. Specific cases addressing the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer‘s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Finally, we encourage reports on novel findings related to the cytotoxicity and ecotoxicity of the targeted active species.
Dr. Peter A. Georgiev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal clusters
- metal complexes
- targeted delivery
- cancer treatment research
- bactericidal
- spinal cord recovery
- nerve regeneration
- progressive neurodegenerative disease diagnosis and treatment
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