Optical Properties of Nanoscale Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Nanotechnology is one of the most promising areas in science and technology in the new century. It is widely used in biomedicine, electronic information technology, material science, and other fields. Among them, nanoscale materials have significant advantages in physics, chemistry, catalysis, optics, magnetism, and mechanics due to their extremely fine grains, a large number of central atoms with grains located at grain boundaries and internal defects, and their inherent quantum size effect, small size effect, surface effect, and macroscopic quantum tunneling effect. In particular, the study of the optical properties of nanoscale materials has great scientific research value and broad application prospects. 

The present Special Issue of Nanomaterials aims to present the current state of the art in the use of nanoscale materials in nonlinear optical. Nonlinear optical phenomena refer to the nonlinear changes in the optical properties of materials under strong light, including multi-frequency, sum frequency, difference frequency, self-focusing, self-phase modulation, and so on. These phenomena are not only of great significance to basic optical science, but also widely used in information, energy, biology, and other fields. In the present Special Issue, we have invited contributions from leading groups in the field with the aim of providing a balanced view of the current state of the art in this discipline.

Dr. Jiang Wang
Guest Editor

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