Symmetry and Its Application in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Dear Colleagues,

Symmetry has always played a pivotal role in chemistry and physics. Monumental discoveries in the 19th century, such as in Pasteur’s work on chiral crystals or Faraday’s discoveries of magnetooptical phenomena that break time-reversal symmetry, brought into light key symmetry principles that are currently being considered in many modern fields. The scientific community has also been continuously fascinated by how symmetry transfers between different size hierarchies of matter. The emergence of nanoscience and nanotechnology has really brought into attention some of these considerations and their unique aspects in this size range. For instance, researchers working on either nanoscale biological and organic systems or inorganic ones constantly search for relations between the symmetries these systems exhibit at different length scales. Alongside this, symmetry considerations are crucial for the understanding of many topics such as plasmonic and excitonic responses of nanoparticles, structure–function relations of biological nanomachines, topological phases in condensed matter, and other very relevant subjects currently being pursued. The aim of this Special Issue is to address specific questions and current issues at the interface between symmetry considerations and nanoscale science, interesting for both fundamental reasons and technological potential. 

Dr. Assaf Ben-Moshe
Guest Editor

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• Chirality in nanoscience
• Symmetry considerations in plasmonic and excitonic systems
• Structural studies of superlattices and crystals of nanoparticles
• The role of symmetry in nanoscale devices
• Self-assembled systems at the nanoscale
• Symmetry in 2D layered materials