Frontiers in Nanocomposites: Fabrication, Characterization and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

With the advacements of nanotechnology, nanomaterials find diverse areas of application in the form of self standing structures, or being integrated into some other media forming so called nanocomposites, or hybrid materials. Nanocomposties offer unique opportunities on a completely new scale for solving obstacles in the fields ranging from energy (harvesting, storage, transfer, etc.), environment, medical, pharmaceutical industry, to structural materials, catalysis, food packaging and electronics, among others. The synergistic effects that are achieved in nanocomposites can expand their impact significantly beyond the current state-of-the-art.

Nanocomposite materials architectures are rather hetergogenous and broad. Ceramic, metallic, semiconducting, polymeric and carbon based (CNTs, graphene, graphene oxide,  etc.) nanomaterials have been used as building blocks to fabricate a wide range of nanocomposites.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences, “Frontiers in Nanocomposites: Fabrication, Characterization and Applications,” has the aim of collecting recent advances in the field of nanocomposites, or hybrid materials,  containing inorganic nanostructures (metallic, ceramic, carbon-based), their fabrication through bottom-up and top-down routes, surface modification with polymers or other inorganic nanomaterials, processing, resultant microstructural and functional characterization for the intended application (in any scientific and technological area). We invite researchers and investigators to contribute their original research, or review articles, to this special issue.

Prof. Dr. Muhammet S. Toprak
Prof. Dr. Camelia Cerbu
Guest Editors

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• Fabrication of nanocomposites
• Composite Nanomaterials
• Core-shell nanomaterials
• Nanocomposites for thermal energy harvesting
• Nanocomposties for energy storage and transfer
• Nanocomposites for magnetics
• Nanocomposties for electronics and sensing
• Nanocomposites for environmental remediation
• Non-polymer based nanocomposites
• Metal - metal oxide nanocomposites
• Metal - ceramic nanocomposites
• Ceramic - polymer nanocomposites
• Inorganic - organic nanocomposites