Optical Materials Express Feature Announcement
Colloidal Systems
Submission Opens:1 October 2016
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2016
Optical Materials Express (OMEx) is planning a feature issue focused on recent advances in a broad spectrum of colloidal materials and systems.
A colloid or colloidal material is a mixture that has particles ranging between 1 and 1000 nanometers in diameter, yet is still able to remain evenly distributed throughout the dispersion medium. Based on the dispersed phase and the continuous phase (i.e., what phase the dispersed substance is suspended in), colloidal systems can be classified into four groups: sol, emulsion, foam, and aerosol. In recent years the rapid development of a good variety of new materials in the form of colloids has permitted many interesting optical, topological, and interface-science phenomena, as well as their applications in optical and photonic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light-emitting diodes, lasers, displays and photodetectors. The implications in chemistry, physics, biology, and technology should not go unnoticed.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to colloidal crystals, metal colloids, quantum-dot colloids, core-shell colloids, liquid-crystal and polymeric colloids, dye-doped composites, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, ferrofluids or colloids with magnetic nanoparticles, nanoparticle dispersions, surfactants, and biocolloids. Papers on advances in processing and devices are welcome, but the emphasis should be on the fabrication, characterization and, especially, the optical properties of the colloidal materials rather than the device design.
All papers need to present original, previously unpublished work, and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review process of the journal. Papers will be published online upon acceptance, and will be subject to the standard OMEx publication fee.
Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for submission to Optical Materials Express and must be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission system. When submitting, please specify that the manuscript is for the Colloidal Systems feature issue (choose from the drop-down menu).
Feature Issue Editors
Cid B. de Araujo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Garo Khanarian, BASF, USA
Wei Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Victor Ya. Zyryanov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia