Recent Progress in Functional Materials and Their Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 1977
Special Issue Editors
Interests: materials for biomedical, environmental and technological applications
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2. Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Centre 3B, STAR-UBB, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: photocatalysis; ecotoxicology; environment–nanoparticle interaction; photochemistry
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Interests: raman and IR spectroscopy; SERS; nanostructures; pharmaceuticals; photocatalysts; carbon-based nanomaterials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Materials with desired properties for specific applications, such as electric, optical, thermal, mechanical, or magnetic, are called functional materials and have gained great attention in recent years. Considering that the physical, chemical, or biological properties of functional materials can be sensitive to changes in their structural arrangements in any dimensional range (i.e., micrometer, nanometer, or sub-nanometer scale), the study of nanostructured functional materials and their applications has become a key point of interest. Although there are many publications regarding functional materials, many experimental and theoretical aspects are still uncovered. On the other hand, there are recent signs of progress related to the performances of certain already in-use materials that originate from their specific properties. All the aspects mentioned above that are aimed at improving the performance of those structures for targeted applications are worth being reported in this Special Issue.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Biomaterials
- Composites for energy;
- Magnetic functional materials;
- Materials for electronics and photonics;
- Functional materials synthesis and processing;
- Functional materials theory, computation, and design;
- Materials for environmental applications;
- Surfaces and interfaces of functional materials;
- Smart materials;
- Hierarchical structures.
Prof. Dr. Lucian Baia
Dr. Zsolt Pap
Dr. Monica Baia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomaterials
- functional nanomaterials
- polymers
- ceramics
- functional composites
- surface
- interface
