Nanostructured Crystalline Semiconductors: Structure, Morphology and Functional Properties
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 22306
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metal oxides; semiconductor nanocrystals; energy conversion; luminescent materials; low-dimensional systems
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Interests: organic synthesis; π-conjugated organic oligomers and polymers; organic photovoltaic cells; self-assembly; photoactuators
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The semiconductor industry has driven most of the last few decades’ technological advancements, laying the foundation of our future society. The cornerstone to these emerging technologies is the tremendous improvement of functional properties observed in semiconductor crystalline materials upon fine tuning of nanoscale structure and morphology. Quantum confinement effects, increased surface area, anisotropic charge, and heat transfer, as well as enhanced surface chemistry and reactivity: These are only a few of the nanoscale-related properties displayed by semiconductor crystals, paving the way to new applications previously forbidden to bulk counterparts. In addition, all these properties are typically tightly bound to the crystalline structure and how the lattice is affected by the nanomaterial’s morphology.
This Special issue aims at collecting recent, cutting-edge progress in the field of Nanostructured Crystalline Semiconductors for energy conversion, chemical and physical sensing, photo- and electrocatalysis, and biomedical applications. Particular attention will be devoted to contributions focusing on the role of the crystal structure and nanoscale morphology on functional properties, as well as to the modeling prediction of the structure–properties relation and the development of innovative synthetic techniques. We invite the submission of papers on the following topics, including but not limited to: inorganic nanostructured binary and ternary semiconductors, e.g., metal oxides and chalcogenides, silicon and germanium nanocrystals, 2D semiconductors, nanoscale homo- and heterojunctions, doped semiconducting nanomaterials, Perovskite nanostructures, and quantum dots. Furthermore, the Special Issue is expected to highlight recent challenges and novel applications for organic crystalline nanostructures exhibiting semiconducting properties and hybrid inorganic–organic semiconductors.
Original papers, communications, topical, and extended reviews are welcome to the Special Issue, with particular focus on highly innovative approaches and materials.
Dr. Raffaello Mazzaro
Dr. Mattia Zangoli
Dr. Tofik Ahmed Shifa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanostructured materials
- inorganic crystalline semiconductors
- nanocrystals
- quantum dots
- metal oxides
- nanowires
- perovskites
- 2D semiconductors
- organic semiconductors
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