Nanomanufacturing of Photoactive Materials: From Synthesis to Applications
A special issue of Nanomanufacturing (ISSN 2673-687X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 1679
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Photoactive materials are capable of activating various responses when they interact with light. The fields of light-driven research have been broadened to various directions, such as photovoltaics, photocatalysts, optoelectronics, light-emitting diodes, phototransistors, photoacoustics, photochemical reactions, photoluminescence, optomechanics, opto-spintronics, photodynamic therapies, biophotosensors, etc. Nanomanufacturing uses a wide variety of novel methods to fabricate nanosized photoactive materials and miniaturized opto-devices, striving for eventual scalability to industry production. The nanoscale materials production includes nanoparticle powders and fluids, quantum dots, nanorods, nanotubes, nanowires, nanopatterns, ultra-thin films, and metal-organic-frameworks. These use processing technologies including laser ablation, etching, lithography, self-assembly, nanoimprinting, exfoliation, 3D printing, thin film deposition, and hydrothermal synthesis. Device components can be built by means of “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches in small steps for high precision—quite different from traditional complex manufacture and molecular creations. The synthesis of materials on atomic, molecular, and supermolecular scales promises unique advantages over their bulk forms, which presently dominate the applications of many sectors in our daily lives, especially in medicine, energy, automotive, electronics, textiles, and cosmetics industries.
This Special Issue aims to collate research reports on advanced nanoscale approaches of photoactive nanomaterials and small-scale devices throughout the processing from synthesis to application—we are especially interested in research with potential leading to transferability of commercialization. We welcome articles focused on light-based interactions and related fields, including—but not limited to—the following:
- Nanoimprinting for layered structures;
- Exfoliation for 2D materials;
- Self-assembly monolayers;
- 3D printing with computer-aided design (CAD);
- Chemical vapor deposition;
- Molecular beam epitaxy;
- Pulsed-laser deposition;
- Dip-pen lithography;
- Contact printing;
- Hydrothermal synthesis;
- Roll-to-roll processing;
- Spin-and-dip coatings.
The Special Issue welcomes full papers, review papers, and communications. Accepted papers will be published in Nanomanufacturing, in the Special Issue “Nanomanufacturing of Photoactive Materials: from Synthesis to Application”.
Dr. Xiaojuan Fan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanofabrication
- nanoimprinting
- lithography
- thin film deposition
- solution-based synthesis
- self-assembly
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