Advances in Functional Inorganic Materials Prepared by Wet Chemical Methods (Third Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

Functional inorganic materials are an indispensable part of innovative technologies, which are essential to the development of many fields of industry. The use of new materials, nanostructures, or multicomponent composites with specific chemical or physical properties promotes technological progress in electronics, optoelectronics, catalysis, biomedicine, and many other areas that are concerned with plenty of aspects of human life. Due to the broad and diverse range of potential applications of functional inorganic materials, the development of superior synthesis pathways, reliable characterization, and a deep understanding of the structure–property relationships in materials are rightfully considered to be fundamentally important scientific issues. Only synergetic efforts of scientists dealing with the synthesis, functionalization, and characterization of materials will lead to the development of future technologies.

The scope of this Special Issue of Crystals, entitled “Advances in Functional Inorganic Materials Prepared by Wet Chemical Methods (Third Edition)”, includes but is not limited to the preparation routes, characterization, and application of functional inorganic materials, as well as hybrid materials that are important in the fields of electronics, optics, and biomedicine, among others. We would like to invite you to submit your work in the form of an original research article or a review paper related to the investigation of bulk materials, nanomaterials, or thin films.

Dr. Aleksej Zarkov
Dr. Loreta Tamasauskaite-Tamasiunaite
Prof. Dr. Aivaras Kareiva
Guest Editors

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• multifunctional materials
• magnetic materials
• ferroelectric materials
• piezoelectric materials
• optical materials
• processing routes
• ceramics