Photon/Energetic Particle-Assisted Remote and Localized Control of Polymer-Based Soft and Hybrid Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 324
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymer applications; photon/energetic particle-assisted control of nanostructures; polymer nanocomposites; organic/inorganic hybrid materials; plasma engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, controlled molecular and nanostructures of emerging soft and hybrid materials are of great interest for developing high-performance electronic devices such as solar cells, displays, memories, and sensors. Since these electronic devices often consist of thin constituent layers of various soft and hybrid materials, conventional techniques based on conduction and convection heating, as well as solvent vapor annealing, in which whole constituent layers are exposed to the heat and/or solvent source, are seldom desirable. The development of high-performance electronic devices with the controlled nanostructures of soft and hybrid materials requires alternative approaches ensuring localized control of the nanostructures without harming adjacent components. Recent advances in photon-assisted techniques based on photothermal conversion as well as energetic particle-assisted controls allow for such a localized modification of nanostructures of the emerging materials for achieving a high performance. This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive information of the state-of-the-art photon/energetic particle-assisted technologies used to control the nanostructures of emerging polymer-based soft and hybrid materials, including self-assembled block copolymers, organic–inorganic halide perovskites, MOFs, and nanocomposites with a variety of low-dimensional nanomaterials of carbon nanotubes, graphenes, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.
Dr. Min Koo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photon/energetic particle-assisted nanostructures
- remote and local control of polymer-based soft and hybrid materials
- photon/energetic particle-assisted polymeric functional materials
- nano- and microstructuring of polymer-based emerging materials
- photothermal conversion-assisted annealing
- energetic particle-assisted annealing
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