Advanced Functional Thin Film Materials: Simulations, Design, Preparation and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 601
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thin films deposition; carbon phases; graphene/graphene-like materials; characterization of materials; structural defects
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced Functional Materials covers an inherently broad class of materials, ranging from special alloys to functionalized inorganic materials and organic materials. Advanced Functional Thin Film Materials examines an exclusive area of materials science, including theoretical studies of materials with applications for molecular dynamics, controlled synthesis and characterization.
The materials that will be the focus of the Special Issue include:
- Graphene and graphene-like materials;
- Thin films of carbon phases, such as amorphous carbon (aC), tetrahedral carbon/ diamond-like carbon (taC/DLC)), amorphous hydrogenated carbon (aC:H), tetrahedral carbon (taC:H), etc.;
- Silicon carbide (SiC);
- Materials used in photovoltaic cells, such as CdTe, amorphous/fine-crystalline silicon, perovskite materials etc.;
- Various composite materials, including those based on carbon composites with nano-sized inorganic fillers;
- Both SiO2-based (e.g., Si-O-C and other glasses) and TiO2-based (e.g., Ti-O-C and other mixed glasses) glasses, etc.;
- Oxide materials, such as ferroelectric/ ferromagnetic materials, optical/optoelectric materials, as well as those with antibacterial/ biomimetic coatings, etc.;
As the structure of the materials strongly influences their properties, the scope of the Special Issue will include both amorphous and nano/micro/single crystalline films/layers.
Dr. Teodor I. Milenov
Dr. Stefan Kolev
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thin films
- graphene/defective graphene
- amorphous carbon
- tetrahedral carbon/diamond-like carbon
- amorphous hydrogenated carbon
- hydrogenated tetrahedral carbon
- CdTe
- perovskites
- carbon-based composites
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