Metal Oxide Nanostructures
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2017) | Viewed by 12714
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wide band gap semiconductors, metal oxide nanostructures; two-dimensional oxide materials; nanocomposites; green electronics
Interests: cellulosic materials for electronics and photonics; oxide nanostructures; fiber-based functional materials and devices; electrical and electrochemical devices
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Dear Colleagues,
Metal oxides (MOs) are an important class of materials for semiconductor technology and play an essential role in the today’s micro- and nanoelectronics. MOs demonstrate amazing diversity of physical and chemical properties, hosting a number of novel and distinctive physical phenomena. Furthermore, MOs have been proven to be crystallized in the variety of shapes, providing the widest family of nanostructures and extending the material application potential further. During the last few decades, plenty of low-dimensional objects of different shapes were reported for materials such as ZnO, TiO2, NiO, VOx, WOx, SnO, etc. It was suggested that the metal oxide nanostructures may be applied in the fields of nano-, piezo-, opto-electronics, gas sensing technologies, plasmonics, field emission, catalyst, electro-, thermos-chromic and water splitting, and many others. Moreover, successful combination of metal oxide nanostructures with the other functional materials (graphene, carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles, etc.) enabled the fabrication of unique nanocomposites with added functionality, and widened the range of application possibilities further to the fields of energy storage, solar cells, water cleaning and splitting, phosphors, biosensors, etc. However, despite a few examples, the application of the metal oxide nanostructures is still a challenge that has to be addressed in forthcoming years. This Special Issue is aimed at demonstrating the latest progress of metal oxide nanostructures fabrication and characterization, followed by demonstration of their actual applications.
Dr. Volodymyr Khranovskyy
Prof. Luís Miguel Nunes Pereira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nanostructures
- ZnO
- TiO2
- NiO
- VOx
- WOx
- SnO
- low dimensional structures
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