Dear Colleagues,

The nanoscale manipulation of matter has always been attractive for millions of researchers and scientists worldwide, leading to an interdisciplinary revolution in various fields of science. In this context, nanotechnology is the flagship, key enabling technology of the 21st century, including and combining fields such as chemistry, materials science, engineering, semiconductor physics, biology, medicine, etc., providing new materials, a vast range of applications, as well as everyday consumer products.

For Europe, nanotechnology research always remains critical, aiming to be competitive in a global level. In this frame, the current generation of the European researchers have generated a massive number of exciting achievements in chemistry in terms of materials design, synthesis. and characterization for emerging application areas, such as energy, electronics, photonics, biomedicine, and environment.

The scope of the present regional Special Issue is to collect new nanotechnology advances and insights from research activities in chemistry conducted not only from Europeans but in a Europe-wide level (European universities, research centers, and organizations). In this context, I invite researchers to submit their original research articles, communications, perspective, and review articles on organic and inorganic molecules, 2D materials, carbon-based materials and nanostructure design, synthesis and functionalization, as well as their potential for incorporation in nanodevices or applications of interest.

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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• 2D materials
• graphene
• nanotubes
• polymers
• nanostructures
• synthesis
• functionalization
• metal nanoparticles
• drug delivery
• sensing
• light harvesting
• solar cells