Collections and calls for papers

Materials Science: New Era for Cost-Effective and High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Organic–inorganic halide perovskite has received extensive attention as a light harvester for next-generation low-cost and high-performance photovoltaics. Its superior optoelectronic properties are attractiv...

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Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Materials Science: New Insights into Advanced Nanomaterials and Their Applications

Perovskite nanomaterials have a great research interest in materials science and nanotechnology. Perovskite materials with a specific crystal structure ABO3 have promising properties for various applications...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

Materials Science: New Insights into Emerging Materials Toward Efficient Optoelectronic Applications

Optoelectronic technologies encompass a wide range of applications, including light-emitting diodes, sensors, transistors, and photovoltaics. As such, optoelectronics utilizing emerging materials can establi...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 May 2024

Materials Science: Next-Generation Manufacturing: Advanced Materials Synthesis, Characterization, Applications & Engineering Breakthroughs

The ability to reproduce complex geometries precisely has attracted much interest in recent years. Aerospace, automotive, healthcare, sports, and medical products are just some fields that have benefited fro...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2024

Materials Science: Photocatalysis and Electrocatalysis: Latest News and Research

Electrocatalysis is cross-disciplinary in nature, and attracts the interest of chemists, physicists, biochemists, surface and materials scientists, and engineers. Electrocatalysis invites submissions in subj...

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Closed

Materials Science: Piezoelectric Material and Devices: Piezo Materials, Piezo MEMS Device, and Their Applications

The field of piezoelectric material and device has witnessed remarkable advancements, driving innovation across diverse industries. From pioneering materials science, to groundbreaking device designs and pra...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Materials Science: Plasmonic Nanomaterials: From Plasmon-Enhanced Light–Matter Interactions to Sensing Applications

In the last decades, there has been significant advances in both theoretical and experimental investigations of surface plasmons, which led to the development of new simulation methods to calculate the optic...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2024

Materials Science: Polylactic Acid (PLA) Based Bio-materials – Green Materials of the Future

The main purpose of the Topical Collection is to publish important research on the methods of synthesis, obtaining, processing, modifying and applying biodegradable polymeric materials based on polylactic ac...

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Closed

Materials Science: Recent Advances in Green and Chemical based Nanomaterials Synthesis: Characterization and Applications

Nanotechnology is one of the most fascinating frontier disciplines, a wide range of nanomaterials with various characteristics have found widespread use in several applications. The materials fabrication at ...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Materials Science: Recent Advances in Natural and Nanostructured Functional Materials

The conference “Energy, Functional Materials and Nanotechnology & Sustainable Environment Management" (ICEFN&ESM-2019) (Nainital, India; 24-26 May 2019) hopes to be an opportunity for a large section of the ...

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Closed

Materials Science: Recent and Future Prospects in the Plasma-Driven Vapor Deposition Process

This special issue will include a collection of short invited reviews covering recent progress in research topics linked to the plasma-based deposition methods involving, but not limited to, Plasma Enhanced ...

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Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Materials Science: Selected papers from International Symposium on Inorganic and Environmental Materials (ISIEM 2023)

The International Symposium on Inorganic and Environmental Materials (ISIEM 2023) will be held in Montpellier, France, from 19 to 23 June 2023. Papers submitted to this conference are invited to be submitted...

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Closed

Materials Science: Structured Soft Materials for Innovative Applications: From the Nanoscale Structure to the Physical Properties

Structured soft matter encompasses a wide range of materials that exhibit unique properties and form the basis of many advances in the fields of high-tech manufacturing, sustainability and medicine. This cla...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Materials Science: Surface Coatings and Coating Techniques

This collection intends to show research and innovation on surface coating and coating techniques, including either coating endowed with potential application in the field of green energy, environment, sea, ...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 November 2024

Materials Science: Sustainable Building Materials, the Netherlands, 2019

Environmental chemistry, building materials, raw materials, physics chemistry, advanced characterization, cementitious materials, biogenic materials.

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Closed

Materials Science: Sustainable Cement-Based Composites

This topical collection is dedicated to cement-based composite materials including different types of cementitious and concrete composites. It especially includes their impacts on sustainable development. It...

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Closed

Materials Science: Synthesis and Applications of Biomass-derived Nanomaterials

Rapid growth in the global population has resulted in severe increase in food demand, energy demand, climate change as well as environmental pollution. This has greatly affected environmental sustainability....

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Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

Materials Science: Two-Dimensional Materials for Data and Energy Storage

This Topical Collection explores the forefront of scientific research in the realm of two-dimensional (2D) materials for data and energy storage. As technology advances and the need for efficient storage sol...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Physics (general)

The Physics section of SN Applied Sciences targets original research articles that use fundamental concepts of the Physical sciences and analysis of physical properties for the development of new functionali...

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Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Physics: Advances and Extensions of Transformation Optics and Metamaterials

In the past decade, Transformation Optics and Metamaterials have provided unprecedented methods for controlling electromagnetic waves, with significant applications in areas such as invisibility cloaking, su...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 November 2024

Physics: Advances in Metasurfaces: Fundamental and Applications

Metasurfaces are subwavelength structures with few functional layers that can manipulate the information of wave fields including amplitude, phase, and polarization in unprecedented ways. Recently, significa...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 August 2024

Physics: Battery Materials and Devices

Battery materials and devices are one of the main scientifically and technological bottlenecks for enabling a sustainable future. Discovery of new materials for battery and manipulation of devices have shown...

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Closed

Physics: Electroporation-based Treatments and Applied Bioelectromagnetics

The collection is focused on applied bioelectromagnetics in biomedicine and biotechnology, which covers the engineering, technology and applied research of novel methodologies based on electric and magnetic ...

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Closed

Physics: Frontiers of Liquid Crystals Research: Theory, Experiments and Applications

This collection encompasses state of art research on liquid crystals, which includes but is not limited to experiments, simulations and theory on liquid crystals and their use in applications such as, the di...

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Closed

Physics: ICSM2021: Superconductivity, Magnetism and Innovative Technologies

This Topical Collection issue is for the 7th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism-ICSM2021, to be held in Bodrum-Turkey between 22 and 28 October, 2021. The papers collected will be pr...

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Closed

Physics: Interfaces, Mixing and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics

Interfaces and mixing and their non-equilibrium dynamics control a broad range of processes in nature and technology, at astrophysical and at molecular scales, including supernovae and fusion, planetary conv...

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Closed

Physics: Physics, Society, and Technology 2019

The International Conference on Physics, Society and Technology (ICPST-2019) is being organized by the department of Physics, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi from 17-19th Jan, 2019. This Conference a...

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Closed

Physics: Progress in Information Optics

This topical collection addresses recent advances in information optics and photonics, both fundamental research and prospective applications with a solid focus on interdisciplinary subjects. In particular, ...

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Closed

Physics: Radiation Physics and Applications

The 2nd International Conference on Radiation and its Applications, ICRA-2019, will be held from 28 to 30 October 2019 in Algiers, Algeria. The conference provides an opportunity for scientists from universi...

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Closed

Physics: Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials

This collection focuses on the most recent scientific and technological advances and innovations in the field of smart photonic and optoelectronic materials and systems for a wide range of applications in co...

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Closed

Physics: Structured lights: Properties and Applications

As a kind of customized light field with specific spatial-temporal evolution characteristics, the structured light possesses novel properties in the interaction between light and matter. It has widely been e...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Physics: Superconductivity and Magnetism: ICSM 2018

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Closed

Physics: Unconventional Magnetism

The aim of this Topical Collection is to promote research on unconventional magnetism. Specific topics of interest include magnetism in Moire twisted graphene, D-wave magnetism namely, altermagnetism, interp...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 January 2025

Real-Time Image Enhancement with deep neural networks and optimization algorithms

Description/Short info text on Collection (REQUIRED) Real-time images are often captured and processed without any buffer delays. Since most real-time images are captured from many sources, the quality of th...

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Closed

Selected papers from the 9th European Conference on Renewable Energy Systems (ECRES 2021)

The scope of this collection includes all types of energies with all related materials and technologies. This means renewable energies such as solar energy, wind energy, and all others are included. Producti...

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Closed

Technologies for Homeland Security and Counter Extremism

Homeland security is about protecting the public and critical infrastructure (transportation, energy, and banking) from terrorism, cyber attacks, and other evolving threats and hazards. Past incidents such a...

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Closed