Special Issue in Chemistry – A European Journal

“Low-temperature solution approaches to oxide functional nanoscale materials“

• Guest Editors
• Special Issue Information
• Keywords
• Invited Reviews and Minireviews
• Planned original research articles

Deadline for the submission of original research papers: December 31^st, 2019

Guest Editors

Prof. M. Lourdes Calzada

Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM), CSIC. Madrid, Spain

Website   | E-Mail: lcalzada@icmm.csic.es

Her present R&D interests include synthesis by soft-chemistry routes and characterization of nanostructures, thin films and bulk materials of functional (dielectric, piezoelectric, ferroelectric, multiferroic, photovoltaic) metal oxides for microelectronics and flexible electronics, design of homo- and hetero-metallic molecular precursors of high-tech oxides, engineering of high-performance oxide compositions and sustainable processing methods for advanced materials and emerging technologies. Her current research activities are highly interdisciplinary and mostly focused on the Development of low-temperature sol-gel synthesis strategies to attain metal oxide materials and the Integration of functional thin films and self-assembled systems with semiconductor and flexible substrates (Si-technology and Flexible Electronics – Electronic Skin, Wearable electronics).

Prof. Silvia Gross

Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Padova. Padova, Italy

Website | E-Mail: silvia.gross@unipd.it

Her present R&D  interests are focused on (i) green and low/room temperature synthesis of crystalline metal oxide, sulphide and halogenide colloids by wet chemistry and colloidal routes, mainly miniemulsions and solvo/hydrothermal synthesis at low/room temperature and (ii) investigation of crystallization mechanisms of inorganic materials under not standard conditions (e.g., confined space), (iii) synthesis and characterisation of organically modified transition metal oxoclusters and oxothioclusters and complexes (M=Zr, Hf, Ta, Ti-Hf, Hf-Ti-Zr, Ba-Ti, Cu, Zn) and of functional inorganic-organic hybrid materials prepared by covalent embedding of functionalised oxoclusters into polymers by co-polymerisation reactions with suitable monomers.  This synthesis activity is complemented by the time- and temperature- in situ and ex situ investigation of nucleation and growth mechanisms of inorganic colloids by spectroscopic (XPS, XAS, Raman, FT-IR) and diffraction/scattering (SAXS, XRD) methods, as well as by the characterisation of the synthetised materials.

Manuscript Submission Information

The issue is now open for submission of original research articles. Submission should be made through the normal Editorial Manager,  selecting in the section of General Information “Low temperature solution route approaches to functional nanoscale materials” from the Section / Category dropdown menu. All submissions will be subject to the rigorous peer review process adopted by the journal and only those papers that meet these standards will be accepted. The deadline for submission of research articles is 31st December, 2019.

Keywords

Solution methods, Low temperature, Oxides, High-tech oxides, nanoparticles, thin films, soft chemistry, green chemistry, functional properties, advanced solution synthesis, advanced characterization methods

List of invited Reviews and Minireviews

Tentative titles:

• Ionic liquids for the low T synthesis of inorganic nanocrystalline materials.  Group of Prof. Smarsly. Univ. Giessen, Germany.

• Microwave-Assisted Preparation of Inorganic Nanostructures in Liquid Phase.  Group of Prof. Zhu. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China.

• Hydrothermal and solvothermal synthesis of functional multinary oxides. Group of Prof.Walton. Univ. Warwick, UK.

• Low or room temperature microfluidic synthesis of oxides.  Prof.  Maggini and Prof. Carofiglio. Univ. Padova, Italy.

• Low temperature synthesis of nanostructured metal oxides with cross-linked polymers as exotemplates. Prof. Centomo, Prof. Zecca and Prof. Biffis. Univ. Padova, Italy.

• Laser-Generated Functional metal oxide Nanoparticles and Materials. Group of Prof. Barcikovski . University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

• Low temperature miniemulsions-based routes to metal oxide nanocrystalline materials. Prof. Landfest, Dr. Muñoz-Espi and Prof. Gross. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany. Institute of Materials Science (ICMUV), Univ. Valencia, Spain. Univ. Padova, Italy.

• Metallic molecular precursors of high-tech oxides.  Prof. Daniele and Prof. Mishra. Univ. Lyon, France.

• Aqueous solution processes and surface sol-gel deposition of oxide thin and ultrathin films. Group of Prof.  Van Bael and Prof. Hardy. Univ. Hasselt, Belgium

• Inorganic nanosheets in the fabrication of functional oxide thin films.  Group of Prof. Ten Elshof. Univ. Twente, the Netherlands.  

• Combustion solution synthesis for the low-temperature processing of metal oxide films. Group of Prof. Branquinho. Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

• Seeding effect in the low-temperature crystallization of oxide films. Group of Prof. Vilarinho. Univ. Aveiro, Portugal.

• Functional oxide films fabricated by photo-assisted solution deposition methods.  Group of Prof. Tsuchiya. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.

• Flexible metal oxide semiconductor devices made by solution methods.  Group of Prof. Park. Chung-Ang University. Seoul, Korea.

• Photochemistry in the low-temperature solution crystallization of electronic oxide thin films. Group of Prof. Calzada. Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC), Spain.

Planned original research articles

Tentative titles:

• Viable environmentally friendly synthetic methodologies in the fabrication of a range of ternary/binary metal oxides.  Prof. Wong. Stoney Brook Univ., USA