Journal
Discover Materials
Discover Materials is an open access journal publishing research across all fields relevant to materials, and areas where materials are activators for innovation and disruption.
Disordered systems, nanostructured materials, and functional composites play a pivotal role in advancing next-generation technologies. With growing demands for high-performance materials in energy, photonics, and security applications, understanding and harnessing the physical properties of complex and disordered systems is crucial. Research in nanoparticle design and synthesis, light scattering phenomena, and thermo-optical conversion mechanisms offers promising solutions for efficient radiative cooling, energy harvesting, and heat management. Additionally, the development of anticounterfeiting technologies and physical unclonable functions (PUFs) is key to ensuring secure identification and authentication in a digitized world.
This Collection invites contributions from researchers, engineers, and material scientists to share breakthroughs, methodologies, and practical innovations in these areas. We welcome submissions related, but not limited to, disordered systems, functional nanoparticles, advanced scattering techniques, novel radiative cooling materials, thermo-optical conversion devices, anticounterfeiting technologies, and PUF-based systems.
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 7 and SDG 9.
Keywords: Disorderd system, nanoparticles, functional materials, scattering, radiative cooling, thermooptical conversion, anticounterfeiting, physical unclonable function (PUF)
Submit your manuscript to this collection through the participating journal.
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Antonio Ferraro
Antonio Ferraro is the Researcher at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Nanotecnologia. He received the Doctoral degree in Physical, Chemical and Materials Sciences and Technologies from Physics Department of University of Calabria, Italy in 2017. His PhD thesis was awarded as “Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Optoelectronics 2018” from IEEE Photonics Society Italian Chapter. He was research fellow at the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM), National Research Council, Italy until 2019. Then He moved to the Physics Department of University of Calabria until 2022. -
Mauro Daniel Luigi Bruno
Mauro Daniel Luigi Bruno, Post doctoral researcher at Institute of Nanotechnology of National Research Council, Italy. He received the Doctoral degree in Physical, Chemical and Materials Sciences and Technologies from Physics Department of University of Calabria, Italy in 2022. His PhD thesis entitled “Unclonable Patterns by Soft Matter Textures” aims to develop new techniques for the creation of anti-counterfeiting devices that exploit the principle of physical unclonable functions (PUFs) key. He received a Post-Doc research grant for 1 years and three months at Physics Department of University of Calabria in 2022.
