Dear Colleagues,

Nanosized materials have attracted considerable interest because of their unique structure and functionality that could be applicable on broad areas such as energy conversion, environmental sustainability, catalysts, and electronic devices. At the same time, the development of functional nanomaterials has been focused on the synthesis, characterization, and potential applications based on their functionality. Hence, there have been developments in highly functional nanomaterials over the past decades through taking their dimension, morphology, size, composition, defect structure, interface, and composite structure as the key factor to regulate the material characteristics (functionality and reactivity).

In this Special Issue on “Functional Nanomaterials: Structure, Properties, and Applications”, we highlight and discuss the recent trends and developments of synthesis, property, and characterization of nanomaterials.

The scope of this issue can be expanded from the synthesis and design of functional nanomaterials to their fabrication, property, and application, which would benefit academia and industry as well. Specifically, this Special Issue will focus on functional materials with specific electrical, thermal, magnetic, chemical, or electrochemical properties as a foundation for designing and fabricating new, desired materials enabling high performance energy storage/conversion or electronic devices. Different synthesis procedures, characterization techniques, and applications for these functional materials will be covered, and novel insights can be proposed.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Synthesis of nanomaterials
• Organic/inorganic nanocomposite
• Energy storage/conversion materials
• Electronic devices
• Catalysts

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Themed Issue to provide an excellent opportunity for publishing your latest advances in the relevant research fields. Submissions of communications, full papers, and reviews are all welcome.

Based on a fundamental study about the materials and in-depth understanding of the structure–property–application relationship, we anticipate this Special Issue could serve as a certain guiding role for the study of functional nanomaterials or nanocomposites and stimulate a broader range of studies as well, leading to significant progress in this area.

Prof. Dr. Hiesang Sohn
Guest Editor

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• functional materials
• nanocomposites
• structure
• property and energy/electronic devices