About this Research Topic
Physical chemistry science of Ionic Materials is a field of the introduction of these materials and the processes that produce, activate, move them, and elaborate them via diverse physical, chemical or biological methods; leading to liquids, nano/micro-particles, thin layers, polymers or 3D material-forms. Moreover, anion exchange and the cation exchange, or more generally ion exchange process, are the main way to elaborate new ionic materials. This process may be defined as a reversible charge replacement of one species of ion in an insoluble solid with another species carrying the same charge in a surrounding solvent. Additionally, the charge guest and host species may be both organic, both inorganic or one organic and the other inorganic. Ionic Materials possess electrical defects influencing the properties and may create new distinguished ones than classical materials.
Alternative energy production and energy storage are modern challenges of the technology, in which researchers are looking to push their current limits. The need to develop new materials with novel electrical properties is a priority. In this perspective, Ionic Materials are seeing the light more and more and may offer many solutions by substituting the classical used metal in new ionic materials or involving them as potential charge carriers in the transport process. By combining the knowledge gained from these state-of-the-art developments, the goal of the study is to improve our understanding of Ionic Materials and their electrical and charge-transport features, supplying crucial details that can be utilized to resolve other pressing problems in the scientific domains, and encourage technological development advances.
This Research Topic is devoted to both experimental and computational aspects of all kinds of studies related to the elaboration of Ionic Materials, presenting an originality in the structure or a novelty of the properties, alternatively, possessing due to their properties new applications, basing mainly on the electrical properties/applications. We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review, and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Elaboration of the various forms of Ionic Materials: liquids, molecular, nano/micro-clusters, thin-deposited films, 3D-materials, composite or hybrid.
• Deep studies of the electrical, photoelectrical and electrochemical of the variant form of the Ionic Materials.
• Their use as captor, or in battery as electrolyte or as alternative constituent, or all other related applications to the electrical properties of Ionic Materials.
Alternative energy production and energy storage are modern challenges of the technology, in which researchers are looking to push their current limits. The need to develop new materials with novel electrical properties is a priority. In this perspective, Ionic Materials are seeing the light more and more and may offer many solutions by substituting the classical used metal in new ionic materials or involving them as potential charge carriers in the transport process. By combining the knowledge gained from these state-of-the-art developments, the goal of the study is to improve our understanding of Ionic Materials and their electrical and charge-transport features, supplying crucial details that can be utilized to resolve other pressing problems in the scientific domains, and encourage technological development advances.
This Research Topic is devoted to both experimental and computational aspects of all kinds of studies related to the elaboration of Ionic Materials, presenting an originality in the structure or a novelty of the properties, alternatively, possessing due to their properties new applications, basing mainly on the electrical properties/applications. We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review, and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Elaboration of the various forms of Ionic Materials: liquids, molecular, nano/micro-clusters, thin-deposited films, 3D-materials, composite or hybrid.
• Deep studies of the electrical, photoelectrical and electrochemical of the variant form of the Ionic Materials.
• Their use as captor, or in battery as electrolyte or as alternative constituent, or all other related applications to the electrical properties of Ionic Materials.
Keywords: Ionic materials, hybrid materials, composite materials, electrical properties, electronic application.
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