Preparation and Application of Hybrid Nanomaterials

The growing demand of new materials with tailored physicochemical properties has propelled hybrid materials to a position of prominence in materials science by virtue of their remarkable new properties and multifunctional nature. Hybrid nanomaterials, formed by two or more components connected at the nanometer scale, combine the intrinsic characteristics of its individual constituents to additional properties due to synergistic effects between the components [1,2]. As a result, the properties of hybrid nanomaterials can be tuned by changing their composition and morphology, leading to materials with enhanced performance characteristics, such as high thermal stability, mechanical strength, light emission, gas permeability, electron conductivity, and controlled wetting features [3,4]. Owing to their wide spectrum of accessible properties, hybrid materials are emerging platforms for applications in extremely diverse fields such as optics, microelectronics, smart coatings, health and diagnostics, photovoltaics, fuel cells, pollutant remediation, catalysis, and sensing [5,6,7,8]. This Special Issue, with a collection of 13 original contributions and two literature overviews, showcases some of the latest advances in this burgeoning and highly interdisciplinary research field, with the aim of highlighting potential applications in diverse fields, present challenges, and research outlooks