Journal
Discover Nano
Discover Nano is an open access journal publishing research from across all areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
This thematic collection in Discover Nano highlights recent advances in nano-structured materials exhibiting ferroic order, including ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, ferroelastic, and multiferroic systems. At the nanoscale, ferroic materials demonstrate unique and often enhanced properties due to surface effects, size confinement, and interface-driven phenomena. Contributions to this collection explore synthesis strategies, characterization techniques, and theoretical modeling aimed at understanding and controlling ferroic behavior in nanomaterials. Emphasis is placed on functional applications in areas such as non-volatile memory, spintronics, nanoactuation, and energy harvesting. By bringing together cutting-edge research from across disciplines, this collection aims to foster innovation and collaboration in the rapidly evolving field of ferroic nanomaterials.
Keywords: Ferroelectricity; Ferromagnetism; Ferroelasticity; Nanostructures; Thin films; Domain engineering; Magnetoelectric coupling; Nanoscale phase transitions; Energy harvesting; Spintronics; Non-volatile memory; Nanodevices; Scanning probe techniques; Perovskite oxides; Functional nanomaterials; Smart materials.
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 7 and SDG 9.
Submit your manuscript to this collection through the participating journal.
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Dinara Sobola
Dr. Dinara Sobola, PhD, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic.
Dr. Dinara Sobola is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology , and a researcher at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on nanomaterials, with a strong emphasis on surface science and the nanoscale characterization of ferroic systems. Dr. Sobola has extensive expertise in advanced scanning probe techniques and other surface-sensitive methods, applied to the development of smart devices based on ferroic and multifunctional properties.