Hybrid Nanomaterials Synthesis and Application

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to consider submitting a paper to this Special Issue in the field of hybrid nanomaterials. In this context, it is crucial to explain that hybrid nanomaterials may be considered in some degree of probability, like composite materials possessing separately different chemical or physical properties, but within the composite synergistically interacting with each other and raising the functionality of final material. For the case of the nanocomposite, the constituent materials should have distinctive phases, and the dimension of at least one of them should be less than 100 nanometers. Sometimes, the structure of nanocomposite has nanoscale repeat distances between the different phases that make up the material. One example of nanocomposite can be host–guest systems, e.g., silica, titanium dioxide, or zinc oxide as ideal matrices. Such nanocomposites are widely used in electronics, energy storage, sensing, catalysis or even possess antimicrobial features. Each of them has promising properties suitable for research in high-quality original articles and might have a potential for application in the industry.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Synthesis of nanocomposite materials;
• Functional materials;
• Ordered porous functional thin films;
• Methods of thin films functionalization;
• Multifunctional and intelligent materials based on silica matrices;
• Characterization methods of silica-based nanocomposites;
• Porous nanocomposites;
• Application.

Dr. Mateusz Dulski
Guest Editor

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