Smart Engineering of New Materials
At a Glance
Section titled āAt a Glanceā| Metadata | Details |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 2016-05-01 |
| Journal | physica status solidi (a) |
| Authors | Robert Bogdanowicz, Dorota BociÄ ga |
| Institutions | Lodz University of Technology, GdaÅsk University of Technology |
Abstract
Section titled āAbstractāDear Readers, This special section is a collection of selected peer-reviewed articles dedicated to Smart Engineering of New Materials. We wanted to pay special attention to various two- and three-dimensional materials, their synthesis, functionalization, characterization and application, including historically anchored carbon and wide band-gap materials. The authors report herein various material synthesis aspects like zirconia coatings fabricated by aerosol-gel routine, enhanced with low temperature plasma discharge 1, 65 nm-thick ZnO nanowires grown by a cost-effective process called chemical bath deposition 2 or ALD growth of electrically efficient ZnO/4H-SiC n-p heterojunction diodes 3. Also included in this special section are topics devoted to characterization of material properties displaying XRD investigation of planar defects in rotated 3C-SiC(111) films grown on Si(110) substrates 4, magnetic properties in as-quenched GdGeSi alloys 5 and amorphous metallic glasses exposed to irradiation with 130 keV 6 or thermal effects like annealing of the multilayer metallization schemes (e.g. Ti/Al/Mo/Au) for AlGaN/GaN junctions 7 and cryogenic treatment of laser patterned highly conductive ITO/Ag/ITO designed for low temperature electronics 8. Moreover, we would like to draw your special attention to an interesting report demonstrating carbon nanotubes as a promising alternative to platinum counter electrodes (CE) for titanium dioxide-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) 9. That particular solar cell reached a maximum value of 4.59% when the carbon layer was thermally treated at 300 Ā°C and it is 16% higher than that registered for devices with a standard platinum counter electrode. We finally express our thanks to all the authors who have submitted their work to be included in this number and very specially thank all those collaborating persons who have acted as reviewers of the papers included in this issue for their work. The selected papers were presented during the āSmart Engineering of New Materialsā conference, held in Lodz, Poland on June 22-25, 2015 (SENM 2015). The conference could not have happened without the commitment of the Polish Academy of Science, Seki Diamond Systems Ltd., Medgal Orthopaedic Implants & Instruments and PREVAC sp. z o.o. The organizing committee is very grateful to these organizations for their support. Robert Bogdanowicz Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Dorota Bociaga Division of Biomedical Engineering and Functional Materials, Lodz University of Technology, Poland