Engineering of Advanced Functional Nanomaterials by Laser, Plasma and Radiation-Assisted Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

We are running a Special Issue of MDPI's journal Nanomaterials. As Guest Editors, we invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration and possible publication in this Special Issue, which is entitled “Engineering of Advanced Functional Nanomaterials by Laser, Plasma and Radiation-Assisted Techniques”.

The use of laser, plasma, and radiation processing techniques to obtain micro-/nanomaterials or to design their functionalities is more popular than ever. The wide range of micro-/nanomaterials obtained or processed via techniques such as pulsed-laser deposition, laser ablation in liquids, laser-assisted cluster generation, laser-induced forward transfer, laser-induced periodic surface structures, laser dewetting, or laser pyrolysis has opened the way to a plethora of applications of these laser-processed and laser-engineered/-designed materials. Using laser-based techniques for the fine-tuning of advanced materials’ functionalities, it is possible to go beyond the state of the art in these applications. The possibility of tailoring the different functional properties of materials to the single-step stoichiometric or non-stoichiometric synthesis of nanostructures is among the unique features of laser-based techniques. Thus, this Special Issue will cover relevant experimental and theoretical aspects of new technologies in this field for their applications to the following topics:

• Laser, plasma, and radiation processing in materials science and advanced functional materials: ferroics and multiferroics, metallic materials, alloys, polymers, biomaterials, ceramics, glasses, oxides, oxynitrides, nitrides, and carbonic nanostructures;
• Strain-mediated functionalities in thin films, multilayered structures, nanomaterials, and composites;
• Laser, plasma, and radiation processing and fabrication at the nano-/microscale: functional sensing devices, synthetic biostructures, bio-implant/devices, surface structuring for quantum dots-based structures, nanoparticle generation, plasmonics, metamaterials, etc.;
• Laser, plasma, and radiation processing in electronics and electrical engineering at the nano-/micro-scale: magnetic materials, semiconductors, photoelectrochemicals, photovoltaics, etc.;
• Theoretical aspects of laser, plasma, and radiation processing: modeling and/or simulation research.

This Special Issue welcomes you to submit original research and review manuscripts on challenges and trends related to fundamental and experimental research on the laser, plasma, and radiation processing of advanced functional nanomaterials, with particular emphasis on environmental protection applications.

Dr. Nicu Doinel Scarisoreanu
Dr. Catalin-Daniel Constantinescu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Nanomaterials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• laser processing
• plasma processing
• radiation processing
• nanoclusters & nanostructures
• nanomaterials & nanocomposites
• surface structuring, thin films & multilayers
• functional properties engineering