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Development and Application of Advanced Inorganic Composites

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 830

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Interests: sol-gel chemistry; thermal analysis; preparation and characterization of multicomponent oxide materials

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Dear Colleagues,

Inorganic nanomaterials are a class of compounds characterized by unique properties that result in advantageous surface, bulk, and optical characteristics. Nevertheless, their integration into technology creates additional economic and ecological challenges, which are a current priority for both science and industry. In this context, the integration and uniform distribution of nanoparticles in various media create conditions for the formation of nanocomposites. Applying suitable synthesis methods for these dispersion systems, coupled with detailed characterization and investigation of their physical and chemical properties, opens up new opportunities that align with industrial needs.

Therefore, in this Special Issue, we invite you to submit manuscripts on synthesis methods for preparing nanocomposite materials, detailed characterizations of the resulting inorganic systems, and investigations of their physical properties. We are particularly interested in works directly associated with the synthesis and analysis of multicomponent oxide systems doped or substituted by different rare elements.

Dr. Arturas Zalga
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Keywords

  • nanomaterials
  • nanocomposites
  • X-ray diffraction
  • rietveld refinement
  • scanning electron microscopy
  • optical properties
  • ionic conductivity
  • vibrational spectroscopy
  • sol–gel
  • solid-state reaction

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Crystal Structure Complexity and Approximate Limits of Possible Crystal Structures Based on Symmetry-Normalized Volumes
by Oliver Tschauner and Marko Bermanec
Materials 2024, 17(11), 2618; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17112618 - 29 May 2024
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Rules that control the arrangement of chemical species within crystalline arrays of different symmetry and structural complexity are of fundamental importance in geoscience, material science, physics, and chemistry. Here, the volume of crystal phases is normalized by their ionic volume and an algebraic [...] Read more.
Rules that control the arrangement of chemical species within crystalline arrays of different symmetry and structural complexity are of fundamental importance in geoscience, material science, physics, and chemistry. Here, the volume of crystal phases is normalized by their ionic volume and an algebraic index that is based on their space-group and crystal site symmetries. In correlation with the number of chemical formula units Z, the normalized volumes exhibit upper and lower limits of possible structures. A bottleneck of narrowing limits occurs for Z around 80 to 100, but the field of allowed crystalline configurations widens above 100 due to a change in the slope of the lower limit. For small Z, the highest count of structures is closer to the upper limit, but at large Z, most materials assume structures close to the lower limit. In particular, for large Z, the normalized volume provides rather narrow constraints for the prediction of novel crystalline phases. In addition, an index of higher and lower complexity of crystalline phases is derived from the normalized volume and tested against key criteria. Full article
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