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Solution-based processing is an attractive and rapidly growing “green” fabrication area for a variety of high-quality functional nanoparticles, hierarchical nanostructures, thin films, fibres, bulk and porous finely structured materials and hybris using relatively low temperatures.
A very effective control of stoichiometry, microstructure and morphology and an extreme flexibility in terms of materials and end-use architectures are among the several advantages of solution-based processing, which includes techniques such as sol-gel, hydrothermal and solvothermal processing, co-precipitation, spin-coating, spray pyrolysis, electrolytic deposition, etc.
 
Suggested session topics:

• Solution-based processing of functional nanostructures:
  nanoparticles
  fibres
  thin film devices, coatings, membranes
  bulk porous and mesoporous materials
  aerogels
  nanocomposite and hybrid structures
• Functional characterisation in view of application:
  mechanical
  electronic, dielectric, magnetic, optical
  chemical, electrochemical
  biomedical