Call For Papers: Focus Issue on De Novo Carbon Nanomaterials
A variety of
mechanical, physical and chemical properties of carbon nanomaterials derive
from the different allotropes including nanotubes, fullerenes, diamond, and
graphene, with applications in nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, biosensors,
drug delivery, energy conversion and storage. This special focus issue of Journal of Materials Research, scheduled
for publication in April 2013, will offer a snapshot of the state of the art in
the manufacturing, synthesis, and modeling of carbon nanomaterials and related
hierarchical architectures with applications in energy, mechanical and physical
properties, and integration with biological materials and structures. Novel
material properties emerge in hierarchical architectures based on carbon
nanomaterials as building blocks because of the synergistic interaction across
the scales, where the union is more than the sum of its parts. Such de novo carbon materials facilitate new
technological innovations at the interface of materials science, engineering,
and biology.
Contributed papers are solicited in the following areas:
- Hierarchical and hybrid
graphene-nanotube materials (2D and 3D architectures)
- Graphene and carbon-nanotube
growth techniques: bottom-up manufacturing, and assembly of organic
molecules
- Roll-to-roll processing, layer
transfer techniques, novel catalyst and substrate approaches
- Structural characterization at
the atomic scale: defect and layer analysis, in-situ monitoring of growth processing and large-area
metrology techniques
- Graphene and carbon nanotube
mechanics including fracture, tearing, and exfoliation
- First-principles/ab-initio and molecular dynamics
modeling, theoretical calculations, materiomics approaches to modeling and
design, and multiscale modeling
- Applications of nanocarbon
materials in energy storage and conversion, nanoelectronics, drug
delivery, and regenerative medicine
GUEST EDITORS
- Cengiz S. Ozkan,
University of California, Riverside, CA
- Markus J.
Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- Nicola Pugno,
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
- Kang Wang,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
To be considered for this issue, new and previously unpublished results
significant to the development of this field should be presented. The
manuscripts must be submitted via the JMR
electronic submission system by July 3, 2012. Manuscripts submitted after this
deadline will not be considered for the issue due to time constraints on the
review process. Submission instructions may be found at
www.mrs.org/jmr-instructions. Please select “Focus Issue: De Novo Carbon Nanomaterials” as the manuscript type. All
manuscripts will be reviewed in a normal but expedited fashion. Papers
submitted by the deadline and subsequently accepted will be published in the
Focus Issue. Other manuscripts that are acceptable but cannot be included in the
issue will be scheduled for publication in a subsequent issue of JMR.
Please contact jmr@mrs.org with questions.
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