Recent Progress in Materials (ISSN 2689-5846) is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. This periodical is devoted to publishing high-quality papers that describe the most significant and cutting-edge research in all areas of Materials. Its aim is to provide timely, authoritative introductions to current thinking, developments and research in carefully selected topics. Also, it aims to enhance the international exchange of scientific activities in materials science and technology.
Recent Progress in Materials publishes original high quality experimental and theoretical papers and reviews on basic and applied research in the field of materials science and engineering, with focus on synthesis, processing, constitution, and properties of all classes of materials. Particular emphasis is placed on microstructural design, phase relations, computational thermodynamics, and kinetics at the nano to macro scale. Contributions may also focus on progress in advanced characterization techniques.
Main research areas include (but are not limited to):
Characterization & evaluation of materials
Metallic materials
Inorganic nonmetallic materials
Composite materials
Polymer materials
Biomaterials
Sustainable materials and technologies
Special types of materials
Macro-, micro- and nano structure of materials
Environmental interactions, process modeling
Novel applications of materials
Publication Speed (median values for papers published in 2023): Submission to First Decision: 5.3 weeks; Submission to Acceptance: 12.6 weeks; Acceptance to Publication: 7.5 days (1-2 days of FREE language polishing included)
Special Issue
Quantum Confinement Effects in Nano Material
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2023 (Open)
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Guest Editor
Sotirios Baskoutas, PhD
Professor, Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
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Research Interests: design and theoretical study of electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructured materials such as quantum dots, quantum wells and nanorods; synthesis (with physical methods) and characterization of semiconductor nanostructured materials
About This Topic
Materials with structure at the nanoscale often have unique optical, electronic, or mechanical properties. Novel effects can occur in materials when structures are formed with sizes comparable to any one of many possible length scales, such as the de Broglie wavelength of electrons, or the optical wavelengths of high energy photons. In these cases quantum mechanical effects can dominate material properties. One example is quantum confinement where the electronic properties of solids are altered with great reductions in particle size. Quantum confinement can be observed once the diameter of a material is of the same magnitude as the de Broglie wavelength of the electron wave function. When materials are this small, their electronic and optical properties deviate substantially from those of bulk materials. In this special issue, we will seek to the articles which reflect the information on current research of quantum confinement in nano materials. Besides, we also encourage the submission of articles related to quantum effects in materials. Original research reports, review articles, communications, and perspectives etc. are welcome in all areas pertinent to this topic. All accepted papers will be published totally free of charge.
Keywords
Quantum; Confinement effects; Nano; Materials; Research
Planed Papers
Title: Self-consistent theory of screening and magneto-transport in narrow, translation-invariant Hall bars under the conditions of the integer quantum-Hall-effect
Author: Rolf Gerhardts, et al
Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute for Solid-State-Research in Stuttgart
Abstract: This work explains a series of experiments, which lead to a new understanding of many aspects of the integer quantum-Hall-effect and do not rely on questionable assumptions, as earlier interpretations of the effect do.
Title: Biolectronic Model of Life, as an Alternative to the Biochemical Model
Author: Adam Adamski
Affiliation: University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Abstract: The human biological system creates the image structure of the world not only based on the electromagnetic and acoustic wave received by the senses, but also based on the soliton, spin and bioplasm wave. This is a new face of knowledge for psychology and philosophy and can be directed to new research, hitherto unknown. The biochemical model is not sufficient to explain the perception and nature of mental processes, because it is too poor in scientific concepts and is based on classical science. The perception and nature of mental processes should be explained outside the biochemical model, also based on the bioelectronic model, and the IT and cybernetic paradigm.
Keywords: Bioelectronic processes; bioplasma; biocomputer; perception; soliton; magnon.
Title: Dirac's spectrum from the Newton laws in graphene
Author: V. Apinyan 1 and M. Sahakyan 2
Affiliation:
1 Division of Condensed Matter Theory, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, PO. Box 1410, 50-950 Wrocław 2, Poland
2 Division of Magnetic Research, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, PO. Box 1410, 50-950 Wrocław 2, Poland
Abstract: We give a phenomenological theory of the monolayer graphene where two worlds, quantum and classical, meet together and complete each other in the most natural way.
We introduce the electron mass-vortex representation and we define surface tension excitation states in the monolayer graphene. We calculate the band mass of the electrons at the Dirac point by introducing mathematically a mass-dispersion relation. As a result, we obtain the Dirac energy dispersion in monolayer graphene from the classical Newton law. Within the semiclassical theory, we show the presence of the surface spin tension vectorial field which, possibly, closely relates the surface tension and spin tension states on the helical surface. We calculate the surface tension related to the confinement of the electron band mass-vortex at the Dirac's point and predict accurately the surface tension value related to the excitonic binding and being formed from the electron and hole band mass-vortices confined at the Dirac's point. Moreover, we show, phenomenologically, that the manifolds on $\rm S^{(6)}$ are not integrable (a long-standing problem in the group theory). The principal reason for this is attributed to the irreducibility of the spinorial group $\rm Spin(6)^{\rm R}$ at the Dirac's point, due to the band mass formation and confinement via the gravitational field
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The present report provides a phenomenological theory for monolayer graphene, in which two worlds, the quantum and the classical, meet and complete each other in the most natural manner. In the present report, electron mass-vortex representation is introduced, and the surface tension excitation states in the monolayer graphene are defined [...]
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Current developments of non-relativistic quantum mechanics appear to predict, and reveal, counter-intuitive dynamical effects of hydrogen in nanostructured materials that are of considerable importance for basic research as well as for technological applications. In this review, the experimental focus is on HO and H molecules in carbon nanotub [...]
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Original Research
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Decoherence is a relatively recent concept in the field of quantum mechanics. Although the pioneers of the field must have understood that loss of phase coherence in quantum superpositions is the reason underlying the appearance of definite outcomes in the quantum measurement problem, the latter was not treated in terms of decoherence until [...]
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We summarize and discuss a self-consistent screening and magneto-transport theory, developed to understand the results of scanning-force-microscope experiments on the current distribution in a two-dimensional electron system (2DES), located in a narrow Hall bar under the conditions of the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) and its breakdown [...]
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Original Research
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A relativistic Wigner function for free Discrete Time Quantum Walks (DTQWs) on the square 2D space-time lattice is defined. The transport equation obeyed by the relativistic Wigner function is derived in terms of discrete derivatives and degenerates in the continuum limit into the transport equation obeyed by the Wigner function of 2D Dirac [...]
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Microsphere super-resolutions, which are beyond the Abbe classical limit, are described. The conversion of evanescent waves to propagating waves, are analyzed by using the geometry of the microsphere. In microsphere experiments a nanojet is produced near the focal plane where its width is smaller than the Abbe limit and this width remains [...]
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Zhong-Ting (Justin) is a PhD student from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He holds BSc in Applied Chemistry and MSc in Environmental Engineering. He was a R&D researcher of NanoMaterials Technology Pte Ltd in Singapore (2006-2012). His current research interests are functional nanomaterials synthesis & design, and their application into environmental/chemical engineering. He has published near 60 SCI papers in Applied Catalysis B, Chemical Engineering Journal and so on with H-Index 23. He also serviced as reviewers over 40 Journals such as Appl. Catal. B, Water Research, Chem. Eng. J, ACS Applied Materials & Interface, etc. He was honored such as “The Bsic Research Achievment 1st Award of CIESC”, “The ZJUT Fund Breeding Distinguished Young Scholars” etc.
Rolf Teschke studied Medicine in Munich and Marburg, where he finished his MD thesis before starting a residency at the Department of Pathology, University of Marburg. Subsequently and with a fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgmeinschaft, he worked at the Bronx VA Hospital/Mount Sinai Hospital in New York during 1972–1975 together with Professor Charles S. Lieber and successfully isolated MEOS and expanded its characterization. Back in Germany, he was at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf with a focus on alcoholic liver disease, biochemical drug studies, and clinical intoxications by halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons, where he became a Professor of Medicine. In 1987, he was offered a chief position and appointed as Director of the Medical Department II, City Hospital Hanau, Teaching Hospital of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His clinical and research interests are on liver injury by drugs and herbs including causality assessment by RUCAM in close association with Dr. Gaby Danan in Paris. A perfect cooperation exists also with Professor Tran Dang Xuan of the University of Hiroshima, Japan. Finally, he is the author of more than 275 publications including books and book chapters, and he is editor in chief of scientific journals and member of editorial boards.