Symmetry/Asymmetry in Carbon Materials
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering and Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2027 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Carbon materials exhibit rich symmetry and asymmetry across multiple length scales, from atomic bonding configurations and crystallographic arrangements to mesoscale architectures and macroscopic structures. These symmetry-related features play a critical role in governing the electronic, mechanical, thermal, optical, and chemical properties of carbon-based systems, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, diamond, amorphous carbon, and emerging low-dimensional and porous carbon materials. Understanding how symmetry breaking—whether induced by defects, strain, interfaces, confinement, external fields, or nonequilibrium processing—affects structure–property relationships is essential for both fundamental science and technological applications.
This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive platform for exploring symmetry and asymmetry in carbon materials from theoretical, computational, and experimental perspectives. Contributions that address how symmetry considerations influence material synthesis, phase transitions, transport phenomena, mechanical behavior, and functional performance are encouraged. Particular emphasis will be placed on advanced characterization, multiscale modeling, and data-driven approaches that reveal hidden symmetry, symmetry breaking, or emergent asymmetry under extreme or dynamic conditions.
By bringing together interdisciplinary studies, this Special Issue seeks to deepen our understanding of symmetry-governed mechanisms in carbon materials and to inspire novel strategies for materials design, manufacturing, and device integration within the scope of Symmetry.
Dr. Haofan Sun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- carbon materials
- symmetry and asymmetry
- graphene
- diamond
- defects and interfaces
- phase transitions
- nonequilibrium processing
- multiscale modeling
- structure–property relationships
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