Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Gerd Meyer
Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität zu Köln, Greinstraße 6, D-50939 Köln, Germany
Tel. +49 221 470 3262; Fax: +49 221 470 5083
Website: http://www.gerdmeyer.de
E-Mail: gerd.meyer@uni-koeln.de
Interests: rare-earth and transition metal; solid state; coordination chemistry
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Ms. Demi Liu
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
E-Mail: demi.liu@mdpi.com
Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Laura Bartolo
Center for Materials Informatics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Tel. +1 330 672 1691; Fax: +1 330 672 2938
Website: http://www.kent.edu/CAS/cmi/people/bartolo/index.cfm
E-Mail: lbartolo@kent.edu
Interests: soft matter; materials informatics; nanomaterials
Prof. Dr. Richard Blaikie
MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, 8140 Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel. +64 3 364 2987 ext. 7043
Website: http://www.elec.canterbury.ac.nz/people/blaikie.shtml
E-Mail: richard.blaikie@canterbury.ac.nz
Interests: semiconductor devices; sub-wavelength optics; nanolithography; nanoelectronics; microfluidics
Dr. Alberta Bonanni
Institute for Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69, A4040 Linz, Austria
Tel. +43 732 2468 9664; Fax: +43 732 2468 9696
Website: http://magicspin.jku.at
E-Mail: alberta.bonanni@jku.at
Interests: crystal growth; synchrotron radiation-based characterization techniques; advanced microscopy; magnetic semiconductors; III-V semiconductors; spintronics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Semiconductor Nanocrystals 2011
Prof. Dr. Liang-Chy Chien
Chemical Physics, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
Tel. +1 330 672 3827; Fax: +1 330 672 2796
Website: http://www.lci.kent.edu/PI/Chien.htm
E-Mail: lchien@kent.edu
Interests: liquid crystals; soft materials science; displays and applications of liquid crystals
Dr. Karl S. Coleman
Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
Tel. +44 191 334 2116; Fax: +44 191 384 4737
Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/?id=1329
E-Mail: k.s.coleman@durham.ac.uk
Interests: carbon nanotubes; graphene; nano-carbon; nano-patterned functional surfaces; inorganic fullerenes; nano-composites
Prof. Dr. Helmut Cölfen
Physical Chemistry, Universität Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Box 714, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
Tel. +49 7531 88 4063; Fax: +49 7531 88 3139
Website: http://cms.uni-konstanz.de/coelfen/members/prof-dr-helmut-coelfen/
E-Mail: helmut.coelfen@uni-konstanz.de
Interests: crystalline inorganic systems; crystalline hybrid systems; crystalline organic systems; nucleation mechanisms; CaCO3; nanoparticle self-assembly; nanoparticle characterization; nucleation and growth; non classical crystallization; mesocrystals; biomineralization
Dr. Sharon Jane Cooper
Department of Chemistry, University Science Laboratories, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
Tel. +44 1913 342098
Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/?id=176
E-Mail: sharon.cooper@durham.ac.uk
Interests: crystal growth; nucleation; crystallization in confined volumes; polymorphic control
Contribution:
Special Issue: Crystallisation Control
Prof. Dr. Jonathan P. Dowling
Quantum Sciences and Technologies Group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 202 Nicholson Hall, Tower Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Tel. +1 225 578 0887; Fax: +1 225 578 0824
Website: http://phys.lsu.edu/~jdowling/
E-Mail: jdowling@lsu.edu
Interests: linear optical approaches to quantum information processing, metrology, and imaging; cavity quantum electrodynamics; photonic band-gap structures for thermal emissivity control
Dr. Ivana R. Evans
Department of Chemistry, University Science Laboratories, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
Tel. +44 191 33 42594
Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/?id=1299
E-Mail: ivana.radosavljevic@durham.ac.uk
Interests: single crystal and powder X-ray and neutron diffraction; functional oxides; hydrogen bonding; polymorphism
Prof. Dr. Hideo Hosono
Frontier Research Center & Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
Tel. +81 45 924 5359; Fax: +81 45 924 5359
Website: http://www.materia.titech.ac.jp/English/LaboratoryProfile/Hosono.html
E-Mail: hosono@msl.titech.ac.jp
Interests: new superconductors; transparent oxide semiconductors; oxide thin film transistors
Prof. Dr. Yuri Kivshar
Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
Tel. +61 02 612 53081
Website: http://wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au/nonlinear/people/YuriKivshar.shtml
E-Mail: ysk124@physics.anu.edu.au
Interests: lattice vibrations; nonlinear dynamics; localized modes; solitons; photonic crystals; metamaterials
Dr. Oleg Kolosov
Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK
Tel. +44 1524 593619; Fax: +44 1524 844037
Website: http://www.nano-science.com
E-Mail: o.kolosov@lancaster.ac.uk
Interests: nanomechanics; nano-characterization; ultrasonics; scanning probe microscopy; nanotechnology; functional materials; graphene
Prof. Dr. Satyendra Kumar
Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Tel. +1 330 672-3054
Website: http://phys.kent.edu/Physics/Kumar.html
E-Mail: kumarsatyen@gmail.com
Interests: bulk and interfacial structure and morphology; electro-optical studies and applications of liquid crystals; elastomers; and biomaterials
Prof. Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
Tel. +1 330 672 4844; Fax: +1 330 672 2796
Website: http://www.lci.kent.edu/PI/Lavrentovich.htm
E-Mail: olavrent@kent.edu
Interests: physical properties of liquid crystals; topological defects in liquid crystals
Prof. Dr. Yong-Hee Lee
Nano Photonics Laboratory, Deparment of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 305-701 Daejon, Korea
Tel. +82 42 350 2536
Website: http://pbg.kaist.ac.kr/index.php?target_url=src_members/yhlee.html
E-Mail: yhlee@kaist.ac.kr
Interests: artifcial crystals such as photonic crystals; metamaterials
Dr. Bo Li
Center for X-ray Crystallography, Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3808, USA
Tel. +1 617 552 1815; Fax: +1 617 552 2705
Website: http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/chemistry/facilities/xray.html
E-Mail: bo.li.5@bc.edu
Interests: single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction; crystal growth; solid state chemistry; heterometallics; metal clusters
Prof. Dr. Charles M. Lieber
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Tel. +1 617 496 3169; Fax: +1 617 496 5442/6731
Website: http://cmliris.harvard.edu
E-Mail: cml@cmliris.harvard.edu
Interests: chemistry and physics of materials with an emphasis on low-dimensional and nanoscale materials; rational synthesis of new nanoscale materials and nanostructured solids; development of methodologies for hierarchical assembly of nanoscale materials into complex and functional systems; investigation of fundamental electronic, optical and optoelectronic properties of nanoscale materials; design and development of nanoelectronics and nanophotonic systems with emphasis on electrically-based biological detection, digital and quantum computing, and photonic systems
Prof. Dr. Cefe López
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, C/ Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 913 349 019
Website: http://luxrerum.icmm.csic.es/?q=node/people/cefe
E-Mail: cefe@icmm.csic.es
Interests: nano-photonics materials
Prof. Dr. Assis F. Martins
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, FCT - Dept. Ciência dos Materiais, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Tel. +351 212 948 564; Fax: +351 212 957 810
Website: http://campus.fct.unl.pt/polinova/
E-Mail: asfm@fct.unl.pt
Interests: liquid crystals and polymers; nano-scale systems
Prof. Dr. Anja-Verena Mudring
Anorganische Chemie I, AG Festkörperchemie und Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 234 32-27408; Fax: +49 (0) 234 32-14951
Website: http://www.anjamudring.de/
E-Mail: anja.mudring@rub.de
Interests: inorganic chemistry: solid state, coordination chemistry and computational chemistry; synthesis; X-ray diffraction (powder & single crystal); thermal analysis (DSC); optical spectroscopy (NIR-VIS-UV, FT-IR, Raman, luminescence); NMR; magnetism; Mößbauer; electrochemistry (CV); theory (semi-empirical, HF, DFT)
Prof. Dr. George Nounesis
Director of Research, Biomolecular Physics Laboratory, NCSR "Demokritos" , 153 10 Aghia Paraskevi , Greece
Tel. +302106503857; Fax: +302106543526
E-Mail: nounesis@rrp.demokritos.gr
Interests: biomolecular physics; mass spectroscopy; radiobiology and immunosensors; liquid crystal
Prof. Dr. Charles Rosenblatt
Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106-5409, USA
Tel. +1 216 368 4125
Website: http://liq-xtal.case.edu/rosenblatt.htm
E-Mail: rosenblatt@case.edu
Interests: iquid crystals and complex fluids (electric and magnetic field effects, interfaces, phase transitions, colloidal inclusions); fluid interface instabilities; microgravity
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schleid
Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Website: http://www.iac.uni-stuttgart.de/arbeitskreise/akschleid/gruppe/schleid.en.html
E-Mail: schleid@iac.uni-stuttgart.de
Interests: the preparation and structure determination of ionic rare-earth metal compounds with different anions as well as their structure-property relationships
Prof. Dr. Paul v. R. Schleyer
Computational Chemistry Annex, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2525, USA
Tel. +1 706 542 7510; Fax: +1 706 542 7514
Website: http://www.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/schleyer/
E-Mail: schleyer@chem.uga.edu
Interests: adamantane synthesis; cage molecules; hydrogen bonding; reactive intermediates; computational chemistry; aromaticity and planar hypercoordination
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Aromaticity and Molecular Symmetry
Dr. Paul J. Simmonds
Integrated NanoMaterials Laboratory, CNSI - UCLA, 570 Westwood Plaza, Bldg. 114, Mail Code 722710, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7227, USA
Tel. +1 310 983 3117
Website: http://www1.cnsi.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=2010433
E-Mail: pjsimmonds@ucla.edu
Interests: molecular beam epitaxy; III-V semiconductors; self-assembled nanostructures; quantum dots; epitaxial graphene
Prof. Dr. Ralf Stannarius
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Institut für Experimentelle Physik, Universitätsplatz 2, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Tel. +49 391-67-18582; Fax: +49 391-67-18108
Website: http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/anp/
E-Mail: ralf.stannarius@physik.uni-magdeburg.de
Interests: free standing liquid crystal films and flaments; anisotropic elastomers and gels; nonlinear physics and dissipative pattern formation
Prof. Dr. Helen Stoeckli-Evans
Institute of Physics, rue Emile-Argand 11, Case postale 158, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 32 718 24 26; Fax: +41 32 718 25 11
Website: http://www3.unine.ch/members/helen.stoeckli-evans
E-Mail: helen.stoeckli-evans@unine.ch
Interests: single crystal; powder x-ray diffraction analysis
Dr. Alexandros Vanakaras
Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece
Website: http://softmat.wordpress.com/
E-Mail: a.g.vanakaras@upatras.gr
Interests: soft matter molecular theory and simulations; fullerene containing liquid crystals; massive molecular flexibility and mesomorphism; liquid crystal dendrimers
Prof. Dr. Epifanio G. Virga
Università di Pavia, Dipartimento di Matematica, via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
Tel. +39 0382 985637; Fax: +39 0382 985602
Website: http://www-dimat.unipv.it/people.php?id=26
E-Mail: virga@imati.cnr.it
Interests: soft matter mathematical modelling
Dr. Jamie Warner
Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK
Tel. +44 1865 273700; Fax: +44 1865 273789
Website: http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/warner.html
E-Mail: jamie.warner@materials.ox.ac.uk
Interests: the design, synthesis, characterization and understanding of novel nanostructured materials
Prof. Dr. Diederik Sybolt Wiersma
European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), University of Florence, National Institute for Optics, CNR, Via Nello Carrara, 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
Tel. +39 554572492/2452; Fax: +39 554572451
Website: http://www.lens.unifi.it/index.php?nl=pplsearch
E-Mail: wiersma@lens.unifi.it
Interests: fundamental optical properties of photonic materials; in particular materials with periodic, random or quasi-crystalline structure
Prof. Dr. Mark R. Wilson
Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
Tel. +44 191 334 2144; Fax: +44 191 384 4737
Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/mark.wilson/mrw.html
E-Mail: mark.wilson@durham.ac.uk
Interests: liquid crystals; soft matter; molecular dynamics; dynamics in crystals and liquid crystals; computer simulation
Prof. Dr. Gu Xu
Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L7, Canada
Tel. +1 905 525 9140
Website: http://mse.mcmaster.ca/faculty/xu
E-Mail: xugu@mcmaster.ca
Interests: crystalline materials; X-ray diffraction methods; electronic organic/polymeric materials/devices; fuel cells
Prof. Dr. Eli Yablonovitch
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Tel. +1 510 642 6821; Fax: +1 510 6663409
Website: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/yablonovitch.html
E-Mail: eliy@eecs.berkeley.edu
Interests: optoelectronics; high speed optical communications; high efficiency light-emitting diodes and nano-cavity lasers; photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies; quantum computing and quantum communication
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