Nanoarchitectonics: A New Paradigm for Materials Science with Nanotechnology
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanoarchitectonics; supramolecular chemistry; interface science
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2. Department of Ichthyology and Hydrobiology, Biological Institute, National Research Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
Interests: drug delivery vehicles; tissue engineering; clay nanomaterials; colloid chemistry; correlative microscopy; cell surface engineering; nanotoxicology; spectroscopy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To meet social demands in contemporary social communities, including the production of goods, environmental protection and remediation, energy creation and storage, integrated information conversion, and biological and biomedical treatments require both (i) synthesis of functional materials by organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, materials science, and supramolecular chemistry and (ii) precise fabrications by micro- and nanotechnology. So far, these efforts have been made rather separately. In order to promote science and technology with the combined efforts of these scientific and technological fields, a new paradigm to assemble these interdisciplinary fields is necessary. This can be satisfied with an emerging research concept, nanoarchitectonics. The nanoarchitectonics concept couples nanotechnology with various research fields, including materials science, supramolecular chemistry, and bio-related sciences, to logically create functional materials from nanoscale units. In nanoarchitectonics approaches, several actions and processes, including regulation of atomic/molecular manipulation, chemical materials modification, control of physicochemical interactions, self-assembly/self-organization, application of external physical stimuli, and biological processes, are combined with rational selection to create functional materials, where interactions, thermal fluctuations, and statistic uncertainties can be harmonized. Because the nanoarchitectonics concept has conceptual generality, it can be applied to a wide range of research fields, including materials synthesis, structural fabrications, sensing, catalysts, environmental remediation, energy production and storages, device fabrications, and biological/biomedical treatments. Reconsideration of these materials sciences with the emerging concept, nanoarchitectonics, would promote understanding the total progresses of the related fields and discovering novel insights between interdisciplinary research fields.
In this Special Issue, this research paradigm shift will be activated through a collection of papers with a novel term, nanoarchitectonics, in the paper title. Because the nanoarchitectonics concept has an adjustable and adaptable nature, the authors of this issue may imagine and create their own thoughts on nanoarchitectonics. Research articles, review articles, and communications relating to theory, simulation, processes, properties, and applications of nanoarchitectonics are all invited for this Special Issue.
Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga
Prof. Dr. Rawil F. Fakhrullin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanoarchitectonics
- self-assembly
- nanomaterials
- functional materials
