Laser-Matter Interaction for Nanostructuration and Characterization: From Fundamentals to Sensing and Energy Applications
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanofabrication and Nanomanufacturing".
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Interests: nanofabrication; nano-electrochemical sensors; electroanalysis; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
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Interests: nanofabrication; metal nanostructures; mesoscopic physics; scanning probe microscopy; plasmonics; laser-based nanofabrication
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Interests: deposition techniques; thin films; advanced materials; characterization techniques; nanostructures; electrocatalysts; water splitting
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, nanomaterials represent one of the most important topics of 21st-century scientific and technological research. Thus, recent years have seen the exploitation of the nanomaterials potentialities in all the technological fields connected to human society challenges. In fact, nanomaterials having at least one dimension in the nanometer-scale present significant unconventional physical and chemical properties with respect to corresponding bulk materials. An example of nanomaterials includes 1D materials such as single and multiwalled nanotubes, metals and oxide nanowires, 2D materials such as graphene and newly emergent 2D nanomaterials such as Xenes (e.g., borophene, silicene, germanene, stanene, phosphorene, arsenene, antimonene, bismuthene, and tellurene), conductive fibers, 3D nanostructures such as multimetal nanoparticles, carbon–metal nanostructures, and sensing surfaces including a variety of hierarchically combinations of these materials, providing synergistic effects. However, the effective success of nanomaterials in device design and production is strictly dependent on the development of low-cost, versatile, simple, and high-throughput nanofabrication and nanopatterning approaches. Over the last few years, among the various fabrication methods, laser technology for nanoscale material synthesis and processing has seen an enormous development. In fact, the use of lasers has opened up new possibilities for material nanoprocessing because of a wide variety of nanostructures which can be obtained due to laser–matter interaction phenomena and controlling the laser process parameters. In addition, laser-based nanofabrication approaches can take advantage of local processing down to the micrometer and even sub-micrometer range, minimized thermal damage to the substrate and neighboring regions, non-contact nature, non-planar processing, and the possibility to combine it with other types of processing steps. Furthermore, nanomaterial development was accompanied by nanodevice fabrication, including, at present, the most investigated organic electronics devices, optical sensors, gas sensors, magnetic sensors, and non-enzymatic electrochemical biosensors.
For this Special Issue, we invite researchers to submit original research articles, letters, as well as review and prospective view articles on laser-matter interaction for nanostructuration and characterization.
Dr. Antonino Scandurra
Dr. Francesco Ruffino
Dr. Sergio Battiato
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- near-field-induced spatially-confined photochemical deposition
- laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition (LCVD)
- laser dewetting of metals
- laser ablation
- laser vaporization
- pulsed laser deposition (PLD)
- sensing and biosensing
- plasmonics
- energy (photovoltaics devices, thermoelectric devices, fuel cells, etc.)
- catalysis and photocatalysis
- micro- and nano-electronics
- supercapacitors
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