Abstract
The NEXT Nanotechnology group at INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) has organized, since the year 2000, a yearly series of international meetings in the area of nanotechnology. The 2018 conference has been devoted to recent developments in nanoscience and their manifold technological applications. These consisted of a number of tutorial/keynote lectures, as well as research talks presenting frontier nanoscience research developments and innovative nanotechnologies in the areas of biology, medicine, aerospace, optoelectronics, energy, materials and characterizations, low-dimensional nanostructures and devices. Selected, original papers based on the 2018 conference talks and related discussions have been published, after a careful refereeing process, in the MDPI journal Condensed Matter, and are currently included in the present dedicated issue.
Highlights
At we always believed to be of crucial importance, for the quality of the research, to work in a national or international context which, through collaborations and public research financed projects, can promote professional growth, yielding results with a high impact on the scientific community, producing, whenever possible, useful applications [1,2]
It is observed that the annealing of a graphene sample above 300 ◦C increased the level of doping, but did not always improve electrical contacts
A two-dimensional carbon allotrope, which is characterized by light weight, strength, and very high electrical and thermal conductivity [23,24]
Summary
The Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures, a fast-growing research field which has attracted increasing attention over many years, especially for many promising nanotechnological applications, led me in 1999 to plan, install, and coordinate the so-called nanotechnology Laboratories, hosted within the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, near Rome (Italy). Grasso, targeting as an audience young postdocs and PhD students, assessing the state-of-the-art of frontier nanoscience research developments and innovative nanotechnologies in the areas of biology, medicine, aerospace, optoelectronics, energy, materials and characterizations, low-dimensional nanostructures and devices. From this activity, many proceedings collections, as well as 3 Springer-edited volumes, originated [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. A recent example can be found in [14]
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