Physical Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Nanoparticles
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2024 | Viewed by 2357
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is an invitation to contribute to this Special Issue of Materials focused on nanoparticles (NPs) realized with physical synthesis, in particular, with gas phase synthesis, physical vapor deposition, pulsed laser ablation, supersonic cluster beam methods, mechanical grinding and others. NPs can now be considered an essential aspect of contemporary technology. Their application spans from drug delivery, medical imaging, plasmonics and photocatalysis to the realization of wide-screen TV sets. Most NP production methods are based on chemical synthesis. However, the physical methods can present some important advantages in fundamental studies on the properties of nanosized objects. In particular, the gas phase synthesis of NPs is attracting considerable attention in the scientific community due to its characteristics that make it particularly well suited for these studies [1]. Since its early developments in the 1990s when this bottom-up synthesis method was used to generate beams of clusters in ultra-high vacuum, this technology and its variants have been used for the generation of bigger nanoparticles. The nanoparticle sources, also known as ion cluster sources or gas aggregation sources (GAS), are being used by an increasing number of research groups and also in some limited industrial applications. This physical method of generating NPs represents an interesting alternative to the chemical methods where a “fine tuning” of the NPs' properties is required. Physical synthesis can be single-step and ligand-free, which results in a more accurate analysis of the NPs' structure and of their electronic, optical and magnetic behavior. In this Special Issue, contributions regarding the physical synthesis of NPs and their properties are welcome. Theoretical papers on this vast subject will also be taken into consideration.
Dr. Sergio D’Addato
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- physical synthesis of nanoparticles
- plasmonic nanoparticles
- magnetic nanoparticles
- structure of nanoparticles
- oxide nanoparticles
- core–shell architecture of nanoparticles
- applications of nanoparticles
- photocatalysis
- quantum dots
