Call for Articles: Special Issue “Molecular Design of Ceramic Nanocomposites for Prospective Energy-Related Applications”

2022/02/14

A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991), IF 5.076, is released. This special issue belongs to the section “Nanocomposite Materials”.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022.

There is a rapidly growing interest within the scientific community in the chemical design of high-purity ceramic nanocomposites starting from polymers and low-weight inorganic or organoelement precursors. This bottom-up route to ceramic materials has been shown within the last four decades to be an excellent tool to design ceramic nanocomposites with controlled and tunable structural features and properties. Properties such as stability in oxidative and corrosive environments, high strength, and creep and thermal shock resistance designate them as strong candidates for application under extreme conditions. Thus, chemically designed ceramic nanocomposites have found purposes in many technologically important areas, such as for energy (electrical energy storage, conversion, transfer, thermal management, and mobile applications) and environmental systems, biomedical components, micro- or nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), transport, defense, and aerospace and space technologies.

The scope of this Special Issue includes, without being limited to, recent developments on the following topics:

Synthesis methods for oxide and non-oxide ceramic nanocomposites (solid-state synthesis, sol-gel techniques, polymer-derived ceramic process, CVD, etc.);

  • Processing methods
  • Micro-/nanostructure
  • Structural ceramic nanocomposites
  • Multifunctional ceramic nanocomposites
  • Properties: electronic; optical; magnetic; catalytic, mechanical; charge carrier transport; thermal transport; etc.

More information: MDPI