Recent Progress in Nanocrystalline Oxides
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 1259
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
At present, nanocrystalline metal oxides find a great variety of applications in a wide range of interdisciplinary fields. It is well known that a host of properties depend on the particle size of metal oxides in the nanoscale range between 1 and 100 nm. A high specific surface area of nanocrystalline metal oxides often accounts for superior catalytic activity. Surface reactivity changes lead to variation in the selectivity of different products. When the crystal size becomes small, optical and electrical properties can be modified, coercive force in magnetic materials can be varied, melting points can decrease, mechanical properties can be modified, etc. In addition, nanocrystalline metal oxides can be used as supports for active metal species in catalysis, or as an integral part of composites with plastics or carbon materials. Today, research on novel nanocrystalline metal oxide is multidisciplinary and involves chemistry for the development of new methods for their synthesis, physics for the study of their properties, biology as they can show antibacterial properties and engineering because they are already widely used in practical applications.
This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in research devoted to nanocrystalline metal oxides and composites based on them. Its topics will cover various methods used for synthesis of such materials, their characterization by modern physical methods, theoretical studies related to the structure and properties of nanocrystalline metal oxides and composites, as well as their application in any area of technology, including catalysis and photocatalysis, adsorption, environmental remediation, energy storage and conversion, sensors, magnetic materials, optoelectronics, ceramics, textiles, biomedicine, and others.
Dr. Alexander F. Bedilo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanocrystals
- metal oxides
- catalysis
- sensors
- optoelectronics
- magnetic materials
- textiles
- environmental remediation
- ceramics
- quantum chemistry
- composites
