Advances in Computational Materials Science on Functional Interfaces and Surfaces
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 20055
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Dear Colleagues,
In the future, research on high-value-added products with new functions using materials created by the fusion of science and technology will be widely and actively conducted. Related industrial fields are expected to be reorganized in accordance with the appearance of new industries. Although nanomaterials have been researched and their activated surface shows more unique attributes than the existing materials, there are constraints to applying them to the industry due to difficulty in materializing other complex functions with them and their small volumes. Hybridization of heterogeneous materials or heterogeneous scales is a new materials technology that has been assessed as new technology to create various functional materials. Computational materials science enables the functional interface and surface to design, invent, and forecast nanomaterials properties using computer simulation techniques such as density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics (MD), Monte Carlo (MC) method, finite element methods (FEM), and machine learning (ML) approaches. All topics potentially falling into the category of computational materials science will be considered, including inorganic materials (metals, ceramics, composites, semiconductors, nanostructures, 2D materials, metamaterials, etc.), organic materials (polymers, liquid crystals, surfactants, emulsions, etc.) and hybrid materials of inorganic and organic components. Both original research articles, in the form of full papers or communications, and reviews are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Seung Geol Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional materials
- functional interfaces and surfaces
- computational materials science
- first principle calculations
- density functional theory (DFT)
- molecular dynamics (MD)
- Monte Carlo (MC) method
- mesoscale simulations
- finite element methods (FEM)
- multiscale simulations
- machine learning (ML)
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