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EditorialSpectroscopy in Materials Chemistry

Tifeng Jiao,1 Nikša KrstuloviT,2 Bing Wu,3 Xinqing Chen,4 and Qingrui Zhang5

1School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China2Institute of Physics, Bijenicka 46, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia3Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis, 2099 Westside Road, Bodega Bay, CA 94923, USA4Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay,Kowloon, Hong Kong5Department of Environmental Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Tifeng Jiao; [email protected]

Received 26 January 2015; Accepted 26 January 2015

Copyright © 2015 Tifeng Jiao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Today, as nanotech continues to develop,materials chemistryis one of the key fields covering topics such as porousmaterials, metal-organic-framework materials, photocata-lysts, magnetic materials, nanobiomaterials, and energymaterials for fuel cells and batteries. The development ofmaterials chemistry has made important progress throughuse of spectroscopic methods, such as UV-VIS-IR, OES,optical absorption spectroscopy, LIBS, XRD, vibrationalspectroscopy, Raman/SERS/SERRS, photoluminescence, andphotospectrometry/plasmonics, which are often supportedby SEM, TEM, and AFM analyses to form the foundations ofnanoscience and nanotechnology in recent decades. In addi-tion, many scientists investigate also some special reactionmechanisms using spectroscopic tools.

This special issue addresses the research studies on thespectroscopy applications in materials chemistry. For exam-ple, W. Wang et al. reported the CO

2absorption by saline-

alkali soils in arid and semiarid ecosystems and developedthe preliminary theory and methodology for the quantita-tive analysis. A. Li et al. investigated gas chromatographyresonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization time-of-flightmass spectrometry (GC/REMPI-TOFMS) using a nanosec-ond laser to analyze the 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocar-bons (PAHs). G. Zhao et al. prepared fluorine-containinghydrophobic mesoporous material (MFS) with high surfacearea successfully synthesized with hydrothermal synthesismethod by using a perfluorinated surfactant template. J.Liu et al. reported the preparation of P(AN-VAc-PMMT)

nanocomposites using in situ emulsion polymerization andfurther confirmed it by FTIR. H. Guo et al. investigated thegelation behaviors of binary organogels composed of azoben-zene amino derivatives and fatty acids with different alkylchains in various organic solvents. L. K. Gao et al. reportedthe molecular dynamics simulations for the model diametergradually decreasing the deformation mode of ZrCu metallicglass from highly localized shear band formation to homo-geneous deformation with obvious transition. A. Wang et al.investigated the synthesis and surface modification of CdTequantum dots (QDs) and the application in the rice growth.F. Jin reported the determination of stavudine in humanplasma by LC-MS/MSmethod applied to the pharmaceuticalformulations bioequivalence study. B. Sun et al. investigatedthe constrained optimization method employed to calculatethe colorant values of the multispectral images. H. Li et al.reported the utilization of infrared spectroscopy to examinethe bone charcoal and the aluminum-impregnated bonecharcoal. D. Yang et al. investigated the analysis for theoil content of 29 rapeseed samples based on near infraredspectral data with different wavelengths by an artificial neuralnetwork (ANN) method. L. Zhang and B. Qin reported anew technique named foamed gel developed to prevent coalmine fire efficiently. G. Zhao et al. reported the synthesis of ahigh surface area, hydrophobic mesoporous material (MFS)by a hydrothermal synthesis method using a perfluorinatedsurfactant, SURFLON S-386, as the single template. J. Lin etal. reported the preparation of zinc substituted magnesium

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ferrite powders by a sol-gel autocombustion method. J. Liu etal. investigated the heat-activated persulfate oxidative treat-ment of chlorinated organic solvents containing chlorinatedethenes and ethanes in soil with different persulfate dosagesand temperatures. Y. Hu et al. reported the preparation ofnovel polyurethanemicrospheres containing curcumin (Cur-PUMs) using carboxymethyl cellulose sodium to improve thebioavailability and prolong the retention time of curcumin. Inaddition, Y. Hu et al. also investigated the gelation behaviorsof binary organogels composed of azobenzene amino deriva-tives and alkyloxybenzoic acids with different lengths of alkylchains in various organic solvents.

Acknowledgments

Finally, the guest editors would like to express sincere appre-ciation to all the authors for their contributions. Moreover,thanks are extended to all reviewers for their time enhancingthe quality of these papers.

Tifeng JiaoNiksa Krstulovic

Bing WuXinqing Chen

Qingrui Zhang

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