Investigation of Nanomaterial Properties Using X-ray Probe
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2024 | Viewed by 47
Special Issue Editor
Interests: spectroscopy of disorder or partially ordered systems-inelastic X-ray scattering-phonons
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Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to invite you to contribute your original research to a Special Issue of Nanomaterials, focusing on X-ray-based investigations of nano and mesoscale organized materials.
Recent nanotechnology developments have focused on "bottom-up" self-assembly, where complex structures or devices spontaneously grow from molecular-scale components, creating mono-disperse, defect-free crystallites or more complex structures. Research within this field has become increasingly interdisciplinary, challenging, and fundamental, spreading across different scientific fields such as materials science, quantum physics, and optoelectronics. Scientists from across the globe have been interested in researching novel material platforms in order to discover new functionalities. With these motivations, they have investigated fundamental and applicative aspects of nanostructured systems, strongly relying on advanced synchrotron-based techniques, such as X-ray diffraction, spectroscopy, and imaging. As a result, this effort has revealved new unique properties of nanoscale organized materials, thus leading to the discovery of new functionalities. Highly brilliant synchrotron sources created new avenues in this quickly developing field.
We welcome original research articles and reviews covering a wide range of topics, including (but not limited to) the following:
- X-ray diffraction investigations of the microscopic and mesoscopic scale structure of nanomaterials;
- Collective and single-particle excitations in the terahertz dynamic response of materials presenting mesoscale organization;
- Cooperative relaxation phenomena, evidenced by time-dependent X-ray photo-correlation spectroscopy;
- Quantum effects and electronic structure in the nanomaterials;
- X-ray imaging of nanomaterials;
- Machine learning approaches for nanomaterial design and microscopic characterization.
Dr. Alessandro Cunsolo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- X-ray diffraction
- X-ray scattering
- nanoscale materials
- synchrotron research
