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Make a Better Life: Functional Metals, Metal Oxides, and Metal Complexes (Second Volume)

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2023) | Viewed by 361

Special Issue Editors

Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, ul. Gagarina 7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Interests: nanotechnologies; titanium and titania-based biomaterial; coordination compounds; structural studies and spectral characterization; medical applications
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Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Interests: titania; nanomaterials; nanocoatings; implants; hydroxyapatite; photodegradation; biointegration; biological activity; CVD; ALD
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

A global crisis related to the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the threats arising from the rapid increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and from the possibility of the appearance of new kinds of viruses, bacteria and fungi. The large amount of research currently carried out is aimed at the production of new materials, understanding their microbicidal or antiviral mechanisms, and using them in various areas of our life. The subject matter of the proposed Special Issue would be studies concerning materials based on metals, metal oxides, and d-electron metal complexes and their potential applications in different fields of our life, e.g., in medicine, cosmetics, the food industry, agriculture, and environmental protection. Materials with the potential to be used in various areas, e.g., as scaffolds supporting tissue reconstruction, systems for the transport and release of drugs or anti-inflammatory agents, and materials with microbicidal surfaces, are of particular interest and have been studied intensively in recent years, and any studies on them can be included in this Special Issue. We would also like to include topics related to the use of the above-mentioned materials as both chemical and biological sensors used in various areas of our lives.

We would like this Special Issue to become a place for presenting research results and exchanging experiences regarding the use of metals, their oxides and their complexes in various applications. The results of research on material synthesis and the physicochemical, mechanical and photocatalytic properties, as well as the biological activity, are of interest to us. We expect submissions of reports from conducted research in the form of full articles and review articles.

Prof. Dr. Piotr Piszczek
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Radtke
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • functional materials
  • metals
  • metal oxides
  • metal complexes
  • biological active agents
  • antiviral and antibacterial properties
  • sensors
  • different applications in our life

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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