Advances in Materials

Special Issue

Fabrication of Functional Organic Nanomaterials Using Self-Assembly

  • Submission Deadline: Aug. 30, 2016
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Siva Krishna Mohan Nalluri
About This Special Issue
Over the past several decades, the fabrication of functional nanomaterials using molecular self-assembly has received enormous attention for their potential applications in optoelectronic, biomedical and technological fields. Researchers around the globe have exploited various non-covalent interactions (for example, electrostatic, π-π stacking, H-bonding) to spatially organize and control the assembly of the building blocks, as the defects arise during self-assembly process may affect the device performance. Among the various established approaches available, the introduction of (i) macrocycles (for example, crown ethers, cyclodextrins, cucurbiturils, calixarenes, catenanes, rotaxanes, cyclophanes) for their ability to form strong host-guest complexes and (ii) short peptides for their ability to organize the functional chromophores via strong intermolecular H-bonding has received a great attention. By exploiting these approaches, a wide variety of supramolecular nanoscale materials (for example, micelles, bilayer vesicles, 1D nanofibers, 2D sheets, gels) have been reported that exhibit remarkable functional properties. The present issue will focus on the recent developments of the functional self-assembling nanomaterials that are shown below.

Aims and Scope:
1. Energy Storage and Harvesting Nanomaterials
2. Conducting Nanomateris
3. White Light Emitting Nanomaterials
4. Drug Delivery Vehicles
Lead Guest Editor
  • Siva Krishna Mohan Nalluri

    Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States

Guest Editors
  • Minh Nguyen

    Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States

  • Yangwei Liu

    Proportional Technologies Incorporated, Houston, United States

  • Issam Oueslati

    Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  • Hemachandra Kotamarthi

    Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

  • Sivaji Gundala

    Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, Albany, United States

  • Zhichang Liu

    Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States

  • Eswararao Doni

    Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Hasmukh Patel

    Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States

  • Nadeem Javid

    Department of Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  • Murali Banavoth

    Department of Chemistry, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  • Sunil Babu Eadi

    Department of Chemistry, Kumooh National Institute of Technology, Daehak-Ro, South Korea

  • Rajendra Kurrapati

    Department of Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

  • Jugal Kishore Sahoo

    Department of Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  • Hema Sundara Siva Ramakrishna Matte

    Institute of Physics, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Avik Samanta

    Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Freiburg, Germany

  • Qi An

    Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware, Newark, United States

  • Wangjing Ma

    Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Shyam Lal Sharma

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Al Falah University, Faridabad, India

  • Ravindra Singh

    Deaprtment of Biotechnology, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, India