Diamond and Related Nanomaterials for MEMS/NEMS Applications

Call for Papers

Diamond materials offer great potential for electronic and biomedical applications. Properties like very high stiffness, thermal conductivity, optical transparency range, chemical stability, and erosion resistance for the diamond-based materials extend their applicability for several aspects of science and technology. In addition, the dopant to the diamond materials offers controllable variable electrical resistivity. Nanostructures of diamond materials have extraordinary multifunctional properties such as high thermal conductivity and a Young's modulus value close to the one for single crystal diamond. Controlled nucleation and growth of nanocrystalline diamond along with their applicability for MEMS and NEMS structures are useful for future generation sensor platforms. Researchers have been putting their efforts to develop diamond films with smooth surface. Nanocrystalline diamond has applications in biomedical science, tribology, corrosion resistance, and also as the electrochemical electrode material. Researchers around the world have been putting their efforts to achieve high precision in the direction of fabricating the devices based on diamond materials. Nanomanufacturing of such devices requires the controlled design of nanoscale diamond structures.

This special issue of Journal of Nanomaterials will be fully dedicated to nanocrystalline diamond materials for MEMS and NEMS. The issue welcomes the contributions related to the fundamental theoretical understanding of nucleation, growth mechanisms, and spectroscopy for diamond-based materials in the nanoscale. We invite authors to submit manuscripts related to the size dependence of chemical and biosensing phenomena for diamond materials.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Micro- and Nanodiamond
  • Graphene
  • Electrochemical applications of diamond and related materials
  • Electrical and mechanical properties of diamond and related materials
  • Diamond biosensors: MEMS and NEMS
  • Analytical methods and modeling for diamond and related materials

Authors should follow the Journal of Nanomaterials manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnm/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript DueDecember 1, 2008
First Round of ReviewsFebruary 1, 2009
Publication DateMay 1, 2009

Guest Editors

  • Rakesh K. Joshi, College of Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
  • Ashok Kumar, College of Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA