Trends and Prospects in Nanoscale Thin Films and Coatings (Second Edition)
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 January 2026 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanotechnology; surface science; deposition; thin films; metals and dielectrics; area-selective deposition
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute your original research to this Special Issue on “Trends and Prospects in Nanoscale Thin Films and Coatings”, focused on the preparation, characterization, properties, and applications of nanoscale thin films and coatings. In recent years, nanoscale thin films and coatings have found extensive application across many fields due to their unique optical, electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties, which substantially differ from bulk properties.
This Special Issue aims to share recent achievements and new challenges in the field of nanomaterial science, engineering, and nanotechnology, paying particular attention to the relationship between advanced fabrication, properties, applications, and physical–chemical characteristics. We welcome studies relating to experimental, theoretical, computational, or other applications of nanomaterials, ranging from hard (inorganic) materials through soft (polymeric and biological) materials to hybrid materials or nanocomposites, including novel preparation and assembly methodologies and industrially scalable techniques.
Subject areas include but are not limited to the following:
- Nanoparticles, nanocrystals, colloids, sols, and quantum dots;
- Self-assembled and directed assembled (in reference to molecules and/or nanoparticles);
- Films, membranes, and coatings;
- Nanotubes, nanowires, nanofibers, nanorods, and nanobelts;
- Nanoporous, mesoporous, and microporous materials;
- Hierarchical structures and molecular–particle networks;
- Surface and interface science and engineering;
- Inorganic–organic hybrids or nanocomposites;
- Nanoceramics, metals, and alloys;
- Nanomaterials (atomic, molecular, and bulk) characterization techniques.
Areas of nanomaterials engineering and applications include but are not limited to the following:
- Catalysis, gas/liquid separations, and membrane reactors;
- Energy conversion and storage devices/systems such as fuel cells and solar cells;
- Electronics, photonics, and magnetics;
- Sensors;
- Medical, biological, and drug development;
- Environmental, building, transportation, telecommunications, and food technologies;
- Nuclear, aerospace, military, and national defense/security technologies;
- Chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical technologies.
Dr. Silvia Armini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanosize
- nanomaterials
- thin films
- coatings
- membranes
- layers
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