Recent Advances in Luminescence and Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, nanoscience and nanotechnology have been gaining great importance and increased scientific attention due to the possibility of obtaining novel properties from materials when they are manipulated at the nanometric scale. At this scale, indeed, changing the morphology implies changing also the physical and chemical properties of matter, many of which are no longer intrinsic but depend on the size, shape, and dielectric environment. One of the most striking examples in this sense are the optical properties of materials when their dimensions are reduced to the nanoscale. Some notable examples of luminescent nanostructures able to outperform traditional materials by several orders of magnitude in term of brightness, efficiency, and tunability can be found in semiconductor nanoparticles, rare-earth doped nanostructures, noble metal nanoclusters, carbon-based nanomaterials, perovskites, organic-inorganic composites, 2D materials, and color centers in nanodiamonds.   These nanomaterials are of fundamental importance for a wide range of applications, such as optical communication, light emitting diodes, lasing, sensing, fluorescent probes in medical diagnostic, photovoltaics, and quantum optics, and advanced spectroscopic techniques (e.g., time-resolved photoluminescence, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, circular dichroism) are needed for their optical characterization.

In this multidisciplinary Special Issue of Materials, entitled “Recent Advances in Luminescence and Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials”, we want to focus on the latest advances in the synthesis, optical properties, and applications of nanomaterials and nanostructures. Original research papers as well as review contributions are welcome in this issue.

Dr. Boris Kalinic
Dr. Tiziana Cesca
Guest Editors

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