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General 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 E-Mail:
Interests: catalysis; aerogels; flame synthesis; mixed oxides; chiral surfaces; in situ spectroscopy; supercritical fluids
Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini
Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2BP, United Kingdom Tel. +44 207 594 6731; Fax: +44 207 594 6757
Website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.boccaccini E-Mail:
Interests: biomaterials; porous materials; scaffolds; tissue engineering; composite materials; bioactive glasses; ceramics; waste recycling; carbon nanotubes; electrophoretic deposition
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 E-Mail:
Interests: catalysis; kinetics of gas-solid reactions and solid-state reactions; hydrogen storage materials; magnetic materials; nanostructuring; photoemission spectroscopy; optical spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy
Dr. Dominik Brühwiler
University of Zürich, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland Tel. +41 (0)44 63 54630
Website: http://www.aci.unizh.ch/bruehwiler/start.html E-Mail:
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, 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 E-Mail:
Interests: inorganic polymers; organometallic polymers; nanocomposites
Contribution:
Special Issue: Nanocomposites of Polymers and Inorganic Particles
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 E-Mail:
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
PD Dr. Heike Hall
ETH Zurich, Department of Materials, HCI E415, Cells and BioMaterials, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland Tel. +41 44 633 69 75; Fax: +41 44 632 10 73
Website: http://www.nanomat.mat.ethz.ch/people/staff/hheike E-Mail:
Interests: designing 3D matrices for biomedical applications and investigates the communication between tissue/cells and the matrix; tissue engineering / mechanotransduction
Dr. Zhi-Min Hao
Brennerstrasse 60, CH-4123 Allschwil, Switzerland E-Mail:
Interests: pigments; functional chromophores; latent pigments; pigment modifications; pigment solid state characteristics
Contribution:
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. 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/ E-Mail:
Interests: hydrogels; polymeric microstructures; silicon wafer; silicon carbide; surface treatment of water; microradiology; microtomography
Prof. Dr. Sergey Kustov
Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Tel. +34 971 171375 or +34 971 173372; Fax: +34 971 173426
Website: http://www.uib.es/depart/dfs/apl/ E-Mail:
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 E-Mail:
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 E-Mail:
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
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://www.ch-e.ntust.edu.tw/front/bin/ptdetail.phtml?Part=T18&PreView=1 E-Mail:
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
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/ E-Mail:
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
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.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/anorgchem/mathur/de/sanjay.shtml E-Mail:
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
Technische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, Postfach 151150, Geb. D2 2, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany Tel. +49 (0)681 302 5174; Fax: +49 (0)681 302 5222
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Interests: magnetic materials; magnetic nanoparticles; micromagnetism; neutron scattering; thermodynamics and grain-growth kinetics of nanocrystalline materials
Dr. Gerald Anthony Murphy
Technical Fellow, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 61 636 83 74; Fax: +41 61 636 66 51
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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, Switzerland Tel. +41 56 310 2457 (Office); +41 56 310 2919 (Secretary); Fax: +41 56 310 4415
Website: http://ecl.web.psi.ch/lithium/ E-Mail:
Interests: materials electrochemistry; lithium-Ion batteries; in-situ electrochemical methods
Prof. Dr. Jürg Osterwalder
Institute of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 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/ E-Mail:
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 E-Mail:
Interests: aluminium alloys corrosion; materials corrosion; cementitious materials and materials durability
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
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 E-Mail:
Interests: functional biointerfaces; biosensors; supported lipid bilayers; biomimetic membrane sensing; functional nanoparticles; parallel nanopatterning techniques
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 E-Mail:
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 E-Mail:
Interests: magnetic materials; magnetic nanoparticles; amorphous alloys; hydrogen storage alloys; hydrogen permeation alloys
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 E-Mail:
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
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 E-Mail:
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
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