Novel Advances in Magnetic Nanomaterials: Core–Shell Architectures, Matrices, and Emerging Functionalities
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2026 | Viewed by 129
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Novel magnetic nanomaterials architecture has emerged as a powerful class of engineered systems in which magnetic functionality can be precisely tailored through interface and surface design. By integrating magnetic cores with chemically and structurally tunable shells and matrices, these architectures enable controlled magnetic behavior, enhanced stability, and multifunctionality beyond that of single-phase materials. Such capabilities are crucial for advancing applications in catalysis, environmental remediation, energy technologies, spintronics, and biomedicine, while also providing fundamental insight into interfacial interactions and emergent phenomena at the nanoscale.
The rapidly expanding library of core–shell architectures and matrix materials—including metal oxides, silica, polymers, graphene, carbon nanotubes, nanodiamonds, carbonaceous materials, and metal–organic frameworks—has been further enriched through post-synthetic strategies such as thermal annealing and heteroatom doping. This Special Issue highlights recent advances in the controlled synthesis, interfacial regulation, and functional integration of core–shell magnetic nanostructures, emphasizing synthesis–structure–property–function relationships and transferable design principles and nanostructured spintronic elements. Future perspectives address emerging Fe–Co–Ni-based and high-entropy magnetic nanomaterials with unconventional properties and broad technological potential.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions covering, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Synthesis and fabrication of core–shell magnetic nanoparticles and nanocomposites.
- Surface and interface engineering of magnetic nanomaterials and nanodevices.
- Core–shell magnetic nanostructures embedded in carbon-based or functional matrices.
- Structure–property–function relationships in magnetic nanomaterials.
- Post-synthetic treatments, including thermal annealing, doping, and defect engineering.
- Multifunctional and stimuli-responsive magnetic nanomaterials.
- Advanced characterization, modeling, and data-driven analysis of carbon-based magnetic nanostructures.
- Emerging magnetic material systems, including Fe–Co–Ni-based and high-entropy nanomaterials.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Armen N. Kocharian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- core–shell magnetic nanoparticles
- carbon-based magnetism
- magnetic nanocomposites, magnetic heterostructures and nanoelements
- interface engineering
- carbon-based matrices
- multifunctional nanomaterials
- high-entropy magnetic materials
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