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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert
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 E-Mail:
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
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Section: Material Sciences and Nanotechnology
Section: Material Sciences and Nanotechnology
Section: Material Sciences and Nanotechnology
Special Issue: Energy Technology for the 21st Century - Materials and Devices
Special Issue: Advances in Materials Science
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Ms. Tracy Chen
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China Tel. +86 10 59011068; Fax: +86 10 59011089
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Mr. Dietrich Rordorf
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 61 683 77 35; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
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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 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, 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 E-Mail:
Interests: inorganic polymers; organometallic polymers; nanocomposites
Contribution:
Special Issue: Nanocomposites of Polymers and Inorganic Particles
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/ E-Mail:
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. 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
Section: Material Sciences and Nanotechnology
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
Materials and Devices for Sustainable Energy Technologies, 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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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/ 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
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 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
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 E-Mail:
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/ 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, 4002-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, 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/ E-Mail:
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/ 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
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 E-Mail:
Interests: organic synthesis; liquid crystals; conjugated polymers; gels; self-assembly; molecular recognition; electronic materials; photochromism; novel aromatic systems
Contribution:
Section: Material Sciences and Nanotechnology
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