Multiferroic Materials 2021

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, research in multiferroic materials has resulted in significant advances and translational applications by elucidating the fundamental underpinnings of coupling using analytical, computational, and experimental approaches. Multiferroic materials may exhibit intrinsic or extrinsic coupling between strain, electrical, and magnetic energies due to complex interactions between different ferroic-order parameters. Nonetheless, new advances continue to be reported in the synthesis, characterization, modeling, optimization, and reliability of multiferroic materials and devices based on these materials. The excitement about multiferroic materials continues to invigorate basic and applied research.

This Special Issue entitled "Multiferroic Materials”, seeks to attract a trans-disciplinary readership by covering the recent progress in:

• multiscale modeling and simulation;
• multiscale fabrication and characterization;
• synthesis of novel intrinsic and composite materials;
• novel sensing, actuation, and communication devices;
• new coupling mechanisms, including electric, magnetic, mechanical, optical, and thermal;
• in situ, multi-field characterization; and
• coupling and switching dynamics.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Magnetochemistry.

Dr. George Youssef
Guest Editor

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• multiferroic spin-transfer torque junctions
• multiferroic charge-transfer materials
• multiferroic strain-mediation materials
• intrinsic multiferroic materials
• composite multiferroic materials
• multiscale modeling (ab initio, molecular dynamic, micromagentics, finite element, effective media, etc.)
• converse- and direct-coupling paradigms
• multiscale characterization
• reliability and assessment of multiferroic-based devices
• applications: sensing, actuation, communication, energy harvesting, wireless energy transfer, etc.