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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Maryam Tabrizian
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Dentistry; Affiliations: Centre for Biorecognition and Biosensors (Director) and McGill Institute for Advanced Materials, Duff Medical Science Building, Room 313, 3775 University Street, Montreal (Qc), Canada
Website: http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/tabrizian
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Interests: cell-biomaterial interactions; LbL self-assembly systems; nanostructured platforms for gene/protein therapy and tissue engineering; nanostructured interface and microfluidic systems by surface molecular engineering; nanolithography and nanopatterning for biorecognition systems; real-time monitoring of cellular activities; characterization of biomaterials debris in biological tissues; polymer synthesis and characterization; advanced surface technologies
Managing Editor
Ms. Eva Liu
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
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Former Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert
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Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Building 26, Rm. 2.64, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, D-14476 Golm, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)331 977 5773; Fax: +49 (0)331 977 5055
Website: http://www.chem.uni-potsdam.de/atb/index.htm
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Interests: inorganic materials synthesis in ionic liquids; functional ionic liquids-hybrid materials; self-assembling polymers, peptides & nanoparticles; calcium phosphate materials; silica hybrid materials; iron oxide materials; metal-peptide frameworks; materials for metallic implants
* Founding Editor-in-Chief and Former Editor-in-Chief of Materials from 2008 until December 2011.
Production Editor
Dr. Brietta Pike
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
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Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
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Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
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Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Alfons Baiker
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg HCI, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 31 53; Fax: +41 44 632 11 63
Website: http://www.baiker.ethz.ch
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Interests: catalysis; aerogels; flame synthesis; mixed oxides; chiral surfaces; in situ spectroscopy; supercritical fluids
Dr. Giorgio Biasiol
Laboratorio Nazionale TASC-INFM, S.S. 14, Km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34012 Basovizza (Trieste), Italy
Tel. +39 040 3756439; Fax: +39 040 226767
Website: http://www.tasc.infm.it/research/amd/staff/biasiol.htm
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Interests: compound semiconductor thin films and nanostructures; crystal growth and epitaxy; kinetics of epitaxial growth; photoemission spectroscopy and microscopy; coherent transport
Contribution:
Special Issue: Epitaxial Materials
Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini
Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel. +44 207 594 6731; Fax: +44 207 594 6757
Website: http://www.biomat.techfak.uni-erlangen.de
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Interests: biomaterials; porous materials; scaffolds; tissue engineering; composite materials; bioactive glasses; ceramics; waste recycling; carbon nanotubes; electrophoretic deposition
Contribution:
Special Issue: Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Special Issue: Biodegradability of Materials in Biomedical Applications 2011
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Special Issue: Biodegradability of Materials in Biomedical Applications 2011
Dr. Andreas Borgschulte
Laboratory for Hydrogen & Energy, Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 823 4639; Fax: +41 44 823 4022
Website: http://www.empa.ch/H2E
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Interests: catalysis; kinetics of gas-solid reactions and solid-state reactions; hydrogen storage materials; magnetic materials; nanostructuring; photoemission spectroscopy; optical spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy
PD Dr. Dominik Brühwiler
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Institute of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Einsiedlerstrasse 31, CH-8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland
Tel. +41 58 934 5543
Website: http://home.zhaw.ch/~breh/
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Interests: mesoporous materials; zeolites; host-guest inclusion compounds; energy transfer; luminescence; solar energy conversion
Contribution:
Special Issue: Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials
Prof. Dr. Walter Remo Caseri
Institut für Polymere, HCI H 509, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 22 18; Fax: +41 44 632 10 96
Website: http://www.polytech.mat.ethz.ch/people/staff/wcaseri
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Interests: inorganic polymers; organometallic polymers; nanocomposites
Contribution:
Special Issue: Nanocomposites of Polymers and Inorganic Particles
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Special Issue: Polymer-Inorganic Hybrids and Their Applications
Prof. Dr. Daolun Chen
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel. +1 416 979 5000; Fax: +1 416 979 5265
Website: http://www.ryerson.ca/~dchen/
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Interests: mechanical properties; fatigue; fracture; deformation; microstructural characterization; welding and joining; lightweight materials (magnesium alloys, aluminum alloys, titanium alloys); advanced materials (bio- and nano-materials, composites)
Dr. Changle Chen
Senior Scientist, Celanese Corporation, 7660 Catawba Ln, Florence, KY 41042, USA
Tel. +1 773 494 5272
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~clchen/
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Interests: reduction of CO2; carbon based nano-materials; catalysis; olefin polymerization; polymer chemsitry and physics
Prof. Dr. Luciano Feo
Department of Civil Engineering and Nano_Mates Center, University of Salerno, 84084 – Fisciano (SA), Italy
Tel. +39 089 964096; Fax: +39 089 963122
Website: http://www.diciv.unisa.it/docenti/feo/index.php
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Interests: numerical and experimental analysis of materials and structures; structural strengthening of existing structures with FRP composite materials; FRP composites bonded and bolted joints; NanoMaterials and NanoTechnology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Innovative Materials in Civil Constructions
Special Issue: Green Materials and Construction
Dr. Martin M. Frank
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Room 5-117, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
Tel. +1 914 945 1107; Fax: +1 914 945 2141
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Interests: oxides; thin films; semiconductor-dielectric interfaces; transistor materials; high-k dielectrics; metal gate electrodes; infrared spectroscopy
Dr. Robin Gremaud
Laboratory for Hydrogen & Energy, Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 823 4933; Fax: +41 44 823 4022
Website: http://www.empa.ch/H2E
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Interests: combinatorial research; kinetics and thermodynamic of gas-solid reactions and solid-state reactions; hydrogen storage materials; optical spectroscopy; raman spectroscopy; hydrogenography; thin films synthesis and characterization; ion beam analysis
Prof. Dr. Abdel Magid Hamouda
College of Engineering, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar
Tel. +974 4403 4303; Fax: +974 4403 4301
Website: http://faculty.qu.edu.qa/hamouda/
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Interests: engineering materials and design; manufacturing processes;computational mechanics and AI in engineering
Dr. Zhi-Min Hao
Brennerstrasse 60, CH-4123 Allschwil, Switzerland
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Interests: pigments; functional chromophores; latent pigments; pigment modifications; pigment solid state characteristics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Functional Colorants
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Special Issue: Functional Colorants
Prof. Dr. Klara Hernadi
Department of Applied and Environmental Chemistry, University of Szeged, H-6720 Szeged, Rerrich B. ter 1., Hungary
Tel. +36 62 544626; Fax: +36 62 544619
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Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; carbon nanotubes; nanocomposite materials; immobilization of biologically active units; cell-to-biomaterials interactions
Contribution:
Special Issue: Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube
Prof. Dr. H.T. Hintzen
Energy Materials & Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513 (Helix Building, STW 3.42), 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 40 2473113; Fax: +31 40 2455054
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Interests: nitride; energy; luminescence; photocatalysis; phosphor; battery material
Contribution:
Special Issue: Luminescent Materials
Prof. Dr. Jung Ho Je
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31 Hyojadong, Pohang, 790-784, Korea
Tel. +82 54 279 2143; Fax: +82 54 279 2992
Website: http://xic.postech.ac.kr/
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Interests: hydrogels; polymeric microstructures; silicon wafer; silicon carbide; surface treatment of water; microradiology; microtomography
Contribution:
Special Issue: X-ray Imaging in Materials Science
Prof. Dr. Sergey Kustov
Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Tel. +34 971 171375 or +34 971 173372; Fax: +34 971 173426
Website: http://www.uib.es/depart/dfs/apl/
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Interests: Linear and non-linear anelasticity of solids, dynamics of lattice defects, magnetoelastic coupling, thermodynamics and kinetics of magnetostructural transitions and martensitic transformations, shape memory alloys
Prof. Dr. Joerg Lahann
Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2300 Hayward, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Tel. +1 734 763 7543
Website: http://www.engin.umich.edu/research/lahann/lahann.htm
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Interests: research in the Lahann Lab focuses on surface engineering; biomaterials; advanced polymers; switchable materials; engineered cellular microenvironments; anisotropic materials and nano-scale self-assembly
Prof. Dr. Peter Langer
Universität Rostock, Institut für Chemie, Abteilung für Organische Chemie, Albert-Einstein-Straße 3a, 18059 Rostock, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)381 498 6410
Website: http://www.chemie.uni-rostock.de/langer/lebenslauf.htm
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Interests: organic synthesis; heterocycles; organic functional materials
Prof. Dr. Sabine Laschat
Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)711 685 64565; Fax: +49 (0)711 685 64285
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Interests: liquid crystals; ionic liquids; total synthesis and biological activity of natural products; asymmetric synthesis; oxidation catalysis; enzymes in organic synthesis
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ionic Liquid Crystals
Prof. Dr. Der-Jang Liaw
Doctor of Polymer Science, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 43 Section 4, Keelung Road, Taipei, 106 Taiwan
Tel. +886 2 2733 5050 or +886 2 2737 6638; Fax: +886 2 2737 6644 or +886 2 2378 1441
Website: http://ch2.ntust.edu.tw/front/bin/ptdetail.phtml?Category=124&Part=T17
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Interests: polymerization techniques; photoelectric polymer materials; degradable polymers; modification of polymer surface; water soluble polymer; fluorescence polymer; including polycondensation; polyaddition; radical polymerization and metathesis polymerization
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Linert
Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/163-AC, A-1060 Wien, Austria
Tel. +43 1 58801 15350; Fax: +43 1 58801 16299
Website: http://www.ias.tuwien.ac.at/researchacwl_e.html
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Interests: thermal and optical spin-state transitions; molecular magnets; isokinetic relationships; compensation effect; material science
Dr. Thomas Lippert
Materials Group, Research Department General Energy, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Tel. +41 56 310 4076; Fax: +41 56 310 2688
Website: http://people.web.psi.ch/lippert/
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Interests: thin films; oxides; materials for energy applications; thin film deposition; pulsed laser deposition; laser ablation; polymers for laser applications
Contribution:
Special Issue: Novel Thermoelectric Materials and Applications
Dr. Peter Loutzenhiser
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), ML K 25, Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 68 12
Website: http://www.pre.ethz.ch/staff/?id=loutzenhiser
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Interests: using concentrated solar energy for producing solar fuels; investigation of novel redox reactions for solar thermochemical cycles; chemical reduction of CO2 and mixtures of CO2-H2O in two-step solar thermochemical cycles with redox reactions
Prof. Dr. Evangelos Manias
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Website: http://zeus.plmsc.psu.edu/
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Interests: polymer and organic materials; soft materials; nanostructures; nanocomposites
Contribution:
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Special Issue: Stimuli Responsive Biomaterials
Prof. Dr. Sanjay Mathur
Chair, Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, University of Cologne, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Greinstraße 6, D-50939 Cologne, Germany
Tel. +49 221 470 2292; Fax: +49 221 470 5196
Website: http://www.mathur.uni-koeln.de/354.html
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Interests: nanoparticle synthesis/functionalization; sol-gel/hydrothermal methods; chemical vapour deposition techniques for coatings; semiconductor oxides; photocatalysis; functional surfaces for biomedical applications; nanodevices; sensors and detectors
Dr. Andreas Michels
Physics of Condensed Matter and Advanced Materials, University of Luxembourg, 162A, Avenue de la Faiencerie, BS 1.13, L-1511 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Tel. +352 466644 6983; Fax: +352 466644 6331
Website: http://wwwde.uni.lu/forschung/fstc/physics_and_material_research_unit/nanomagnetism
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Interests: magnetic materials; magnetic nanoparticles; micromagnetism; neutron scattering; thermodynamics and grain-growth kinetics of nanocrystalline materials
Dr. Gerald Anthony Murphy
Colorants Research Basel, BASF Schweiz AG, Klybeckstrasse 141, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 636 8374; Fax: +41 61 636 2091
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Interests: synthesis of dyes and pigments; anthraquinone; cyanine; azo and cationic dyes; electronic materials; process development and process safety
Prof. Javier Narciso
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Alicante University, Apartdo 99, E-03080, Alicante, Spain
Tel. +34 965909763; Fax: +34 965903454
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Interests: composite materials; bioinspired materials; carbon materials; Si based ceramics; lights alloys; materials chemistry
Dr. Peter Nesvadba
R-1059.6.05, BASF, Schwarzwaldallee 215, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 63 62412; Fax: +41 61 63 62332
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Interests: nitroxides; alkoxyamines; controlled radical polymerization; free radical initiators; antioxidants; light stabilizers; degradation and stabilization of polymers; organic radical battery
Prof. Dr. Petr Novak
Electrochemical Energy Storage, Department General Energy, Electrochemistry Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5234 Villigen, Switzerland
Tel. +41 56 310 2457 (Office); +41 56 310 2919 (Secretary); Fax: +41 56 310 4415
Website: http://ecl.web.psi.ch/lithium/
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Interests: materials electrochemistry; lithium-Ion batteries; in-situ electrochemical methods
Prof. Dr. Jürg Osterwalder
Institute of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 635 5827 (office); +41 44 635 5781 (secretariat); Fax: +41 44 635 5704
Website: http://www.physik.uzh.ch/groups/grouposterwalder/
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Interests: surface science; electronic structure; magnetic films and nanostructures; electron spectroscopies; scanning probe microscopies
Dr. Christian Paglia
Institute of Materials and Constructions, Department of Environment, Construction and Design, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Trevano, CP 12, CH-6952 Canobbio, Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0)58 666 63 61; Fax: +41 (0)58 666 63 59
Website: http://www.lts.supsi.ch
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Interests: aluminium alloys corrosion; materials corrosion; cementitious materials and materials durability
Contribution:
Special Issue: Construction Materials
Prof. Dr. Greta Ricarda Patzke
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 635 4691; Fax: +41 44 63 56802
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Interests: anisotropic nanoscale transition metal oxides; photocatalytic properties of oxide-based nanomaterials; microwave-hydrothermal synthesis of nanomaterials; mechanistic studies on solvothermal reactions; synthesis and application of polyoxometalates; conducting polymers and hybrid materials
Contribution:
Special Issue: Progress in Nanomaterials Preparation
Prof. Dr. Nicola Pugno
Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics “Giuseppe Maria Pugno", Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Tel. +39 011 090 4902; Fax: +39 011 090 4899
Website: http://areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/bionanomech
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Interests: nanomaterials; nanomechanics; bio-inspired; fracture; strength; adhesion; toughness
Dr. Ir. Rogier Receveur
Principal R&D Engineer, Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V., Endepolsdomein 5, 6229 GW Maastricht, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 43 3566647; Fax: +31 43 3566518
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Interests: implantable microsystems (MEMS switch for biomedical applications); biomaterials; biomedical sensors
Dr. Erik Reimhult
ETH Zurich, Department of Materials, HCI F 537, Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 633 75 47; Fax: +41 44 633 10 27
Website: http://www.surface.mat.ethz.ch/people/senior_scientists/erikr
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Interests: functional biointerfaces; biosensors; supported lipid bilayers; biomimetic membrane sensing; functional nanoparticles; parallel nanopatterning techniques
Contribution:
Special Issue: Supported Lipid Membrane Surface Modifications and Applications
Special Issue: Surface Modification and Assembly of Magnetic Nanoparticle Materials
Dr. Marco Salerno
Nanophys Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, Via Morego 30, Genova, I-16163, Italy
Tel. +39 10 71 781; Fax: +39 10 72 03 21
Website: http://www.iit.it/en/people.html?view=profile&layout=profile&id=94
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Interests: atomic force microscopy; nanoindentation; nanocomposites; anodic porous alumina; cell adhesion substrates
Prof. Dr. Steven L. Suib
Unit 3060, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N. Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-3060, USA
Tel. +1 860 486 2797; Fax: +1 860 486 2981
Website: http://web.uconn.edu/chemistry/SuibGroup/suibg.htm
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Interests: manganese oxides; catalysis; ceramics; nanotech; microwaves
Dr. Kiyonori Suzuki
Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Room 163, Building 19, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
Tel. +61 3 9905 9566
Website: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1284-2008
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Interests: magnetic materials; magnetic nanoparticles; amorphous alloys; hydrogen storage alloys; hydrogen permeation alloys
Dr. Naozumi Teramoto
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology 2-17-1, Tsudanuma, Narashino, Chiba 275-0016, Japan
Tel. +81 47 478 0406; Fax: +81 47 478 0439
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Interests: biomaterial; bio-based polymer; bioplastics; biodegradable polymer; biopolymer; composite material comprising a polymer matrix
Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff
Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis Laboratory, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 823 41 31; Fax: +41 44 823 40 41
Website: http://www.empa.ch/abt131
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Interests: solid state chemistry; perovskite-type oxides and oxynitrides; materials for energy conversion technologies; crystallography; thermoelectricity; analytical chemistry: exhaust gas catalysis
Contribution:
Special Issue: Novel Thermoelectric Materials and Applications
Dr. Vance Williams
Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6 Canada
Tel. +1 778 782 8059; Fax: +1 778 782 3765
Website: http://www.chemistry.sfu.ca/people/profiles/vancew
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Interests: organic synthesis; liquid crystals; conjugated polymers; gels; self-assembly; molecular recognition; electronic materials; photochromism; novel aromatic systems
Contribution:
Special Issue: Quasicrystals
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Special Issue: Molecular Symmetry
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