Engineering of Advanced Functional Materials by Laser-Assisted Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

We are running a Special Issue of MDPI's journal Nanomaterials. As Guest Editors, we invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration and possible publication in this Special Issue entitled "Engineering of Advanced Functional Materials by Laser-Assisted Techniques".
The use of laser techniques to obtain micro/nanomaterials or to design their functionalities is more popular than ever. The wide range of micro/nanomaterials obtained or processed by techniques such as pulsed laser deposition, laser ablation in liquids, laser-assisted cluster generation, laser-induced forward transfer, laser-induced periodic surface structures, laser dewetting or laser pyrolysis has opened the way to a plethora of applications of these laser-processed and engineered/designed materials. Using laser-based techniques to perform fine-tuning of the advanced material’s functionalities, it is possible to go beyond the state-of-the-art in these applications. The possibility to tailor different functional properties of materials to single-step stoichiometric or non-stoichiometric synthesis of nanostructures is among the unique features of laser-based techniques. Thus, this Special Issue aims to cover relevant experimental and theoretical aspects of new technologies in this field to their applications via the following topics:

• Lasers in materials science and advanced functional materials: ferroics and multiferroics, metallic materials, alloys, polymers, biomaterials, ceramics, glasses, oxides, oxynitrides, nitrides, and carbonic nanostructures.
• Strain-mediated functionalities in thin films, multilayered structures, and composites.
• Laser fabrication at the nano-/micro-scale: functional sensing devices, synthetic biostructures, bio-implant/devices, surface structuring for quantum dots-based structures, plasmonics, metamaterials, etc.
• Laser processing in electronics and electrical engineering at the nano-/micro-scale: magnetic materials, semiconductors, photoelectrochemicals, photovoltaics, etc.
• Theoretical aspects of laser processing: modeling and/or simulation research.

This Special Issue welcomes original research and reviews manuscripts on challenges and trends covering fundamental and experimental research on laser processing of advanced functional materials, with special emphasis on environmental protection applications.

Dr. Nicu Doinel Scarisoreanu
Dr. Catalin-Daniel Constantinescu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Nanomaterials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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• laser processing
• nanoclusters
• nanostructures
• nanomaterials
• nanocomposites
• surface structuring
• functional properties engineering