Composite Nanoparticles

Call for Papers

Composite nanoparticles are advanced materials having recently gained increasing attention due to their scientific and technological importance. From a scientific point of view, the composition and the atomic order of the aggregates, in addition to size, are pivotal factors in determining their properties, while the nanoscale regime confers them structural and electronic degrees of freedom which are unknown to bulk materials. From a technological point of view, their applications range from catalysis to electronics, from optical to magnetic devices.

The main focus of this special issue will be to point out the progresses on the nanoscale multicomponent particles from both theoretical and experimental point of view to form a common language and knowledge ground for scientific community. This special issue will be an international platform to synergically present the results of most exciting experimental and theoretical studies in this field; research articles, with special emphasis on results obtained in the last five years, are welcome, as well as review articles on emerging fields. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Optical characterisations
• Magnetic behaviour
• Computational structure optimisation
• Pseudopotentials for quantum mechanical calculations on composite nanoparticles
• Catalysis
• Plasmonics
• Novel applications in chemistry
• Models for ordering and self-segregation
• Janus particles
• Modeling and simulation of structure properties
• Deposition
• Surface functionalization
• Properties of interfaces between different materials
• Drug and gene delivery
• Nanocomposites for biomedical applications
• Self-assembly and supramolecular ordering
• Methods for synthesis of composite nanoparticles
• Methods for characterization of composite nanoparticles

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/chem/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/chem/materials.chemistry/cn/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Pietro Calandra, Institute for Physico-Chemical Processes, Italian National Research Council, Messina, Italy

Guest Editors

• Valeria La Parola, ISMN-CNR Palermo, Palermo, Italy
• Vincenzo Turco Liveri, Università� di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
• Elefterios Lidorikis, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
• Fabio Finocchi, Institut de NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), Paris, France