Advanced Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Sensing Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Since their discovery in the late 1980s, nanomaterials such as carbon fullerene, carbon nanotubes, and ordered mesoporous materials have opened the door to a revolution in the field of nanotechnology, making them one of the most studied materials due to their unique intrinsic optical, magnetic, electrical, and mechanical features. Nanomaterials, which can be distinguished into several classes on the bases of their dimensionality, including one-dimensional (nanotube, nanowire, nanorods), two-dimensional (nanosheets), and three-dimensional (nanoparticles) types, have, over the last few decades, attracted the attention of scientists in many fields of application, including as heterogeneous catalysts in many industries, such as chemical manufacturing, energy-related applications, and environmental remediation, as well as gas sensors, batteries, and optoelectronic devices, among other biomedical and agricultural applications. This Special Issue on ”Advanced Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy, Environmental, and Sensing Applications” will attempt to cover the most recent advances in nanostructures, concerning, not only their synthesis and characterization but also their functional and smart properties to be applied in scaling factors, such as grain size, thin film thickness, and porosity in the context of a lattice defect model, nanoceramic thin films, nanoscale superlattices, and mesoporous materials. The articles presented in this Special Issue will cover various topics, ranging from different techniques for synthesis and morphological modification to the preparation of catalytic systems and their application in several areas of interest, such as in catalytic processes and energy, environmental, photochemical, and sensing applications. Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes contributions from all researchers working on nanomaterials, as well as on their characterization, properties, and applications.

The Special Issue will cover, but will not be limited to, the following topics:

• Advanced synthesis;
• Smart properties;
• Characterizations;
• Multifunctional materials;
• Energy harvesting/storage devices;
• Sensors;
• Highly dispersed metal, metal oxide, or metal sulfide nanoparticles;
• Heterogeneous catalysis supported by nanoparticle materials;
• Photochemical properties and applications of nanomaterials;
• Electrochemical and optical properties of nanomaterials.

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Claudia Espro
Dr. Francesco Mauriello
Dr. Emilia Paone
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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.

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