Functional Nanomaterials: Self-Assembly and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D：Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 1111
Special Issue Editor
Interests: in situ characterization of the reactivity and assembly kinetics of functional nanomaterials; structural design, micromechanics and performance investigation of nanoassemblies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the developments in a variety of self-assembled nanomaterials that combine both organic and inorganic elements. With the rapid development of nanotechnology, great advancements have been witnessed in chemical self-assembly, in which a series of elegant, complex, and adaptable hierarchical structures have been successfully constructed. With the help of assembly technology, these intriguing and exotic chemical, photophysical, and anisotropic mass transport features of nanocomponents were integrated into robust macroscale materials or devices with unprecedented and attractive functionalities.
Although remarkable achievements have been made in the field of self-assembled nanomaterials over the past few decades, several major challenges still exist for further development in terms of nanomaterials’ alignment, dynamic mechanism revelation, the discovery of novel properties, and performance optimization. For instance, the questions of how to develop novel assembly strategies to integrate nano-building blocks into macroscale structures with high precision and large scale and how to forecast, regulate, and optimize the properties of nanomaterials-based assemblies remain. In the future, extensive investigation, comprehension, and novel manufacturing protocols for self-assembled nanomaterials are thus required.
Dr. Zhen He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nano-building blocks
- hierarchical structures
- assembly
- functionalities nanomaterials
- structural design
- nanotechnology
