Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Alexander Böker
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DWI an der RWTH Aachen e.V., Lehrstuhl für Makromolekulare Materialien und Oberflächen, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 8, 52056 Aachen, Germany
Tel. +49 241 80 23304; Fax: +49 241 80 23301
Website: http://www.pc.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?id=359
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Interests: guided block copolymer assembly; orientation and phase behavior of block copolymers in electric fields; block copolymer/nanoparticle composites; self-assembly of nanoparticles at interfaces; Pickering-Emulsions; template directed nanoparticle assembly; pattern transfer
* Founding Editor-in-Chief of Polymers
Managing Editor
Ms. Cathy Wang
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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Dr. Brietta Pike
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
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Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
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Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
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Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Paschalis Alexandridis
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260-4200, USA
Tel. +1 (0)716 6451183
Website: http://www.cbe.buffalo.edu/alexandridis
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Interests: self-assembly of block copolymers; solvent quality effects on polymer structure; associating polymers and polymer-surfactant interactions in aqueous solutions; polymer-templated nanoparticle synthesis and organization
Dr. Leonie Barner
Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, Environmental Engineering, Polymers and Additives, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 7, 76327 Pfinztal (Berghausen), Germany
Tel. +49 721 4640 872; Fax: +49 721 4640 111
Website: http://www.ict.fraunhofer.de
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Interests: controlled radical polymerizations; click chemistry; grafting from and to; surface modification; nano- and microspheres; cellulose; polymers from renewable resources
Prof. Dr. Christopher Barner-Kowollik
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesser Str. 18, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel. +49 721 608 5641
Website: http://www.macroarc.de/
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Interests: precision macromolecular design; novel conjugation chemistries; novel controlling protocols; kinetics and mechanism of polymerizations; high resolution mass spectrometry
* Advisory Board Member
Prof. Dr. Gary L. Bowlin
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main St., Room E1254, P.O. Box 843067, Richmond, VA 23284-9002, USA
Tel. +1 804 828 2592; Fax: +1 804 828 4454
Website: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~glbowlin/
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Interests: electrospinning; tissue engineering; scaffolds; vascular tissue engineering; bone tissue engineering; in situ regeneration, angiogenesis
Prof. Dr. Jean-François Carpentier
Catalysis & Organometallics, UMR 6226, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rennes 1 – 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
Tel. +33 223 235 950; Fax: +33 223 236 939
Website: http://scienceschimiques.univ-rennes1.fr/catalyse/carpentier/index.html
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Interests: metal-based polymerization catalysis; coordination-insertion polymerization; metallocenes; post metallocene catalysts; stereoselective polymerization; polyolefins; ring-opening polymerization; chemical modification of polymers
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: Polymer-Inorganic Hybrids and Their Applications
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Special Issue: Nanocomposites of Polymers and Inorganic Particles
Prof. Dr. Carlo Cavallotti
Politecnico di Milano, Departement of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical > Engineering, via Mancinelli 7, 20131 Milano, Italy
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Interests: polymerization kinetics; ab initio and DFT estimation of rate constants; KMC simulation of reactive systems; molecular dynamics; bioseparation matarials; polymer-protein interactions
Prof. Dr. Chorng-Shyan Chern
Department of Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43 Keelung Rd., Sec. 4, Taipei, 106 Taiwan
Tel. +886 227 376 649; Fax: +886 227 376 644
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Interests: emulsion polymerization; interactions between proteins and colloidal particles; amphiphilic graft copolymers and their behaviors in aqueous solutions; polymerization of N,N’-bismaleimide-4,4’-diphenylmethane and barbituric acid
Dr. Seth B. Darling
Argonne National Laboratory, Center for Nanoscale Materials, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439, USA
Tel. +1 630 252 4580; Fax: +1 630 252 4646
Website: http://nano.anl.gov
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Interests: block copolymers; organic photovoltaics; hybrid photovoltaics; hybrid organic/inorganic nanomaterials; self-assembly
Prof. Dr. Matthew G. Davidson
Director of the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, Head of Inorganic Chemistry Group Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Tel. +44 122 538 6443; Fax: +44 122 538 6231
Website: http://www.bath.ac.uk/chemistry/people/davidson/
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Interests: sustainable chemistry; ring-opening polymerization; stereoselective polymerization; renewable polymers; organometallic chemistry
Prof. Dr. Ernesto Di Mauro
Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Università di Roma \"Sapienza\", P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
Tel. +39 06 4991 2880; Fax: +39 06 4991 2500
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Interests: abiotic polymerization; DNA structure; DNA topology; RNA structure; evolution of macromolecules; biological evolution
Prof. Dr. Paul Dubin
Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, 710 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst MA 01003 USA
Tel. +1 413 577 4167
Website: http://www.chem.umass.edu/faculty/dubin.html
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Interests: polyelectrolyte-protein complexation, including interactions of glycosaminoglycans and proteins; polyelectrolyte-micelle interactions; complex coacervation; electrostatically-driven protein aggregation; protein separation by selective coacervation
Prof. Dr. Benny D. Freeman
University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, 10100 Burnet Road, Building 133, Room 1.308B, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Tel. +1 (512) 232-2803; Fax: +1 (512) 232-2807
Website: http://membrane.ces.utexas.edu
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Interests: gas separation materials; gas/vapor barrier materials; membranes for water purification; membrane module modeling
Prof. Dr. Ruth Freitag
Chair for Process Biotechnology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Tel. +49 921 55 7370; Fax: +49 921 55 7375
Website: http://www.bioprozesstechnik.uni-bayreuth.de/
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Interests: stimuli-responsive; materials; bioconjugates; synthetic biodelivery systems; bioseparation engineering; scaffolds for tissue engineering; encapsulation; monolithic stationary phases for chromatography and electrochromatography
Prof. Dr. Kurt E. Geckeler
Department of Nanobio Materials and Electronics (DNE), World-Class University Program (WCU), and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), 1 Oryong-dong, Buk-gu Gwangju 500-712, Korea
Tel. +82-62-970-2316; Fax: +82-62-970-2338
Website: http://mse.gist.ac.kr/~mseamc/
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Interests: bionanomaterials; inorganic nanotubes and nanoparticles; nanomedicine; nanostructured polymers; nanosized molecular architectures; supramolecular polymers; biomedical and biocompatible polymers; drug delivery systems; functional polymers; polymer-metal complexes; conducting polymers; stimuli-sensitive materials; chemosensors; polymers for environmental remediation
Dr. Russell E. Gorga
Textile Engineering, Fiber and Polymer Science, NC State University, Campus Box 8301 Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Tel. +1 919 515 6553; Fax: +1 919 515 6532
Website: http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/rgorga
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Interests: composite nanofibers; structure property relationships of fibrous materials; mechanical and electrical properties of polymeric materials; tissue engineering scaffolds; antimicrobial scaffolds
Dr. Michael D. Guiver
Principal Research Officer, Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology (ICPET), National Research Council Canada (NRC), 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada
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Interests: membrane gas separation polymers; fuel cell membranes; polymers of intrinsic microporosity; click chemistry polymers
Contribution:
Special Issue: Polymers for Fuel Cells & Solar Energy
Prof. Dr. Stephen Harding
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, NCMH Building, Sutton Bonington, LE12 5RD, UK
Tel. +44 115 951 6148; Fax: +44 115 951 6142
Website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ncmh
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Interests: hydrodynamics; solutions; natural polymers; mass; shape; heterogeneity; interactions
Prof. Dr. Gürkan Hizal
Istanbul Technical University, Department of Chemistry, Maslak, 34469, Istanbul, Turkey
Tel. +90 212 2856047; Fax: +90 212 2856386
Website: http://www.kimya.itu.edu.tr/polimer
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Interests: controlled radical polymerizations; photoinduced radical or cationic polymerization; synthesis and modification of polymers
Dr. Wei Min Huang
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798 Singapore
Tel. +65 67 904 859; Fax: +65 67 924 062
Website: http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/mwmhuang/
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Interests: shape-memory polymers; shape memory hybrids; shape-memory composites; conductive polymers; polymer nanocomposites
Contribution:
Special Issue: Novel Stimuli-Responsive (co)Polymers
Dr. Scott M. Husson
Clemson University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 127 Earle Hall, Clemson, SC 29624-0909, USA
Tel. +1 864 656 4502; Fax: +1 864 656 0784
Website: http://www.clemson.edu/ces/departments/chbe/faculty_staff/husson_s.html
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Interests: ATRP; bioseparation materials; polymer membranes; polymer-protein interactions; surface-initiated polymerization
Prof. Dr. Søren Hvilsted
Technical University of Denmark, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Danish Polymer Centre, Building 423, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Tel. +45 4525 2965; Fax: +45 4588 2161
Website: http://www.kt.dtu.dk/English.aspx
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Interests: ATRP; click on polymers; fuel cell polymers; azobenzene containing polymers for holographic storage; biomedical polymers
Prof. Dr. Do-Hoon Hwang
Department of Applied Chemistry, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Kumi 730-701, Korea
Tel. +82 544 787 821; Fax: +82 544 787 710
Website: http://kit.kumoh.ac.kr/~dhhwang/
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Interests: polymer synthesis; organic electronic materials; polymer light-emitting diodes; organic thin film transistors; organic photovoltaic devices; dye-sensitized solar cells, organic memory devices; photo-curable polymers; organic insulators; photo-resists
Dr. Patrick Ilg
Polymer Physics, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 08 39; Fax: +41 44 632 10 76
Website: http://www.polyphys.mat.ethz.ch/people/senior_researchers/pilg
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Interests: structure and rheology of soft matter (polymer solutions and melts, liquid crystals and liquid crystalline polymers, colloidal magnetic fluids, supercooled liquids and glasses); polymer dynamics in flow; multiscale modeling and simulation; coarse-graining methods; nonequilibrium statistical physics and thermodynamics
Prof. Dr. Hatsuo Ishida
Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7202, USA
Tel. +1 216 368 4285; Fax: +1 216 368 4164
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Interests: benzoxazine; polybenzoxazine; composite interfaces; surface treatment of fillers and fibers; nanocomposite; vibrational spectroscopy (IR, Raman) of polymers
Dr. Hiroshi Jinnai
KIT and WPI (Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University), Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
Tel. +81 75 724 7846; Fax: +81 75 724 7800
Website: http://www.cis.kit.ac.jp/~mechanic/jinnai/index_j.html
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Interests: block copolymers; polymer blend; phase separation; electron microscopy (electron microtomography); small-angle neutron scattering
Dr. Thomas Junkers
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Chemcal Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Engesserstr. 18, Geb. 11.23, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel. +49 721 608 2603; Fax: +49 721 608 5740
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Interests: controlled radical polymerization; polymerization kinetics; polymer conjugation; radical spin traps; novel polymerization protocols; mass spectrometry of polymers
Prof. Dr. Kazunori Kataoka
University of Tokyo, Department of Materials Engineering, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Tel. +81 3 5841 7138; Fax: +81 3 5841 7139
Website: http://www.bmw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/index.html
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Interests: block copolymers; drug delivery systems; polymeric micelles; gene delivery; biomaterials; self-assembly; smart materials; nanomedicine; gene therapy
Dr. Stephan Kirchmeyer
H.C. Starck Clevios GmbH, Chempark, Bldg. B 202, 51368 Leverkusen, Germany
Tel. +49 214 3072626
Website: http://www.clevios.com/
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Interests: conducting polymers; semiconducting organics; organic transistors; organic solar cells; organic sensors; printed electronic devices
Prof. Dr. Martin Kröger
Polymer Physics, Department of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 66 22; Fax: +41 44 632 10 76
Website: http://www.complexfluids.ethz.ch
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Interests: computational polymer physics; complex liquids; anisotropic liquids; coarse-graining issues; new simulation methods; nonequilibrium phenomena; polymer brushes, melts, solutions, gels, and networks; dendritic structures; scaling concepts; topology; pattern recognition; molecular dynamics
Prof. Dr. Sebastien Lecommandoux
Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO), UMR CNRS 5629, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, de Biologie et de Physique de Bordeaux (ENSCBP-IPB), Université de Bordeaux, 16 Avenue Pey Berland, 33607 Pessac cedex, France
Tel. +33 5 40 00 22 41; Fax: +33 5 40 00 84 87
Website: http://www.lcpo.fr/
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Interests: block copolymer self-assembly; stimuli-responsive nanostructures; polymersomes; hybrid polymer/nanoparticles structures; therapeutic applications; drug delivery systems; theranostics
Prof. Dr. Kang Li
Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ, UK
Tel. +44 207 594 5676
Website: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/kang.li
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Interests: preparation and characterisation of polymeric membranes; fluid separations using membranes; membrane reactor design
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Linhardt
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Biology and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Biotech. Center 4005 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA
Tel. +1 518 276 3404; Fax: +1 518 276 3405
Website: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/chem_faculty/profiles/linhardt.html
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Interests: chemoenzymatic synthesis of acidic oligosaccharides; samarium-catalyzed carbon glycoside synthesis; synthesis of UDP-sugars; synthesis of nanomaterial-carbohydrate conjugates
Prof. Dr. Shiyong Liu
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, China
Tel. +86 551 3607348; Fax: +86 551 3607348
Website: http://polymer.ustc.edu.cn/liu/
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Interests: responsive polymers; supramolecular functional materials; polymer chemistry; chemosensors and biosensors; kinetics in complex fluids
Prof. Dr. Andrew B. Lowe
Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Sciences & Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Tel. +61 293 856 031; Fax: +61 293 855 966
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Interests: RAFT polymerization; thiol-based click chemistries; ROMP; water-soluble polymers; stimuli-responsive copolymers; self-assembled nanostructures; nanomedicine
Contribution:
Special Issue: Water-Soluble Polymers
Special Issue: Click Chemistry in Polymer Science
Prof. Dr. Matthias P. Lutolf
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Bioengineering, Station 15, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 693 18 76
Website: http://lscb.epfl.ch
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Interests: biomolecular hydrogels; stimuli-sensitive materials; proteolytically degradable materials; novel conjugation chemistries; materials for tissue engineering and cell culture; 2D and 3D patterning of biomaterials
Contribution:
Special Issue: Microfluidic-Assisted Synthesis and Modification of Polymeric Materials
Prof. Dr. João F. Mano
Department of Polymer Engineering, 3B's Research Group, IBB Associate Laboratory, University of Minho, AvePark, Zona Industrial da Gandra, S. Cláudio do Barco, 4806-909 Caldas das Taipas, Guimarães, Portugal
Tel. +351 253 510 900; Fax: +351 253 510 909
Website: http://www.3bs.uminho.pt
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Interests: natural and biodegradable polymers and composites; nanobiomaterials and nanomedicine; biomaterials for tissue engineering and controlled drug delivery; biomimetic approaches; stimuli-responsive materials and surfaces; functional materials; glass transition and relaxation processes in macromolecular systems; thermal analysis; mechanical properties
Prof. Dr. Toshio Masuda
Department of Environmental and Biological Chemistry, Fukui University of Technology, Gakuen 3-6-1, Fukui 910-8505, Japan
Tel. +81 776 29 2714; Fax: +81 776 29 2714
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Interests: polymer synthesis; transition metal-catalyzed polymerization; functional polymers; conjugated polymers; gas separation membranes
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meier
Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0)61 267 38 02; Fax: +41 (0)61 267 38 55
Website: http://www.chemie.unibas.ch/~meier/index.html
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Interests: interactions between synthetic polymers and model colloids; polymerization of hydrophobic monomers in lipid bilayers; hollow polymer particles with dimensions in the submicrometer range; polymerizable amphiphilic block copolymers; reconstitution of membrane proteins in superstructures formed by amphiphilic block copolymers
Prof. Dr. Goerg H. Michler
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute for Physics, 06099 Halle/S., Germany
Tel. +49 34 61 / 46 27 45; Fax: +49 34 61 / 46 25 35
Website: http://www.physik.uni-halle.de/aww/index.htm
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Interests: electron microscopy (including SEM, TEM); atomic force microscopy (AFM); morphology of polymers; micromechanical poperties; nanostructured polymers; toughness enhancement; nanocomposites; biomedical polymers
Dr. Graeme Moad
CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Bag 10, Clayton South, Victoria 3169, Australia
Tel. +61 395 452 509; Fax: +61 395 452 446
Website: http://www.csiro.au/people/Graeme.Moad.html
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Interests: polymer design and synthesis; polymerization kinetics and mechanism; reversible deactivation radical polymerization (e.g., RAFT, NMP); reactive extrusion
Contribution:
Special Issue: Living Polymerization Techniques
Dr. Alexander B. Morgan
Advanced Polymers Group, Multiscale Composites and Polymers Division, University of Dayton Research Institute, 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469-0160, USA
Tel. +1-937-229-3079; Fax: +1-937-229-3433
Website: http://www.udri.udayton.edu/ContactUs/People/Pages/AlexanderMorgan.aspx
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Interests: materials science; polymer decomposition; polymer flammability; flame retardancy; polymer nanocomposites
Dr. Yasuhiro Morisaki
Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
Tel. +81 75 383 2610; Fax: +81 75 383 2607
Website: http://chujo.synchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.cgi?page=Assistant+Professor+Yasuhiro+Morisaki
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Interests: conjugated polymer; optically active polymer; hetero-atom containing polymer; macrocycle; single molecular wire
Contribution:
Special Issue: Single Molecular Wire
Prof. Dr. Kell Mortensen
University of Copenhagen. Department of Natural Sciences, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Tel. +45 3533 2311
Website: http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~kell
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Interests: structural properties of biomolecules and polymers; molecular selfassembly; biomembrane and membrane proteins; synthetic biology; X-ray and neutron scattering
Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
Tel. +49 6131 379 151; Fax: +49 6131 379 350
Website: http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/groups/muellen/
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Interests: new polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry; multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures; functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes; dyes and laser writing into polymers; chemistry and physics of single molecules; molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices; materials for lithium or hydrogen storage; biosynthetic hybrids; nanocomposites
Contribution:
Special Issue: New Polymer Synthesis Reactions
Prof. Dr. George R. Newkome
Departments of Polymer Science & Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-4717, USA
Tel. +1 (330) 972-6458
Website: http://www2.uakron.edu/cpspe/DPS/newkome.php
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Interests: synthetic and structural studies in diverse areas of chemistry, supramolecular, and nanotechnology; dendrimers; metallosuperstructures
Contribution:
Special Issue: Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
Dr. Rachel K. O\'Reilly
Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK
Tel. +44 (0)24 7652 3236; Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 4112
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/materialschemistry/oreilly/
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Interests: controlled radical polymerisation; micelles; nanoparticles; Click; responsive; catalysis
Contribution:
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Special Issue: Supramolecular Assembly
Prof. Dr. Jung Kwon (John) Oh
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, SP275.09 Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada
Tel. +1 514 848 2424
Website: http://chem.concordia.ca/people/faculty/Oh.php
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Interests: Design and processing of nanoscale macromolecular biomaterials for biomedical applications
Prof. Dr. Ton Peijs
School of Engineering and Materials Science, and Centre for Materials Research, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London, UK
Tel. +44 20 7882 8865; Fax: +44 20 8981 9804
Website: http://www.cmr.qmul.ac.uk/
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Interests: nanocomposites; polymer composites; structure/processing/properties relationships of polymer composites; polymer fibres; conductive polymer composites; self-reinforced polymers; cellulose; biobased materials
Contribution:
Special Issue: Electrospinning Techniques and Novel Applications of Electrospun Nanofibers
Dr. Sébastien Perrier
Key Centre for Polymers & Colloids, School of Chemistry, Building F11, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel. +61 (2) 9351 3366; Fax: +61 (2) 9351 3329
Website: http://www.kcpc.usyd.edu.au/
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Interests: RAFT polymerization; living radical polymerization; self-assembly; supramolecular chemistry; block copolymers; peptides; nanostructures
Prof. Dr. Polycarpos Pissis
National Technical University of Athens, Department of Physics, Zografou Campus, 157 80 Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 210 772 2986; Fax: +30 210 772 2932
Website: http://www.physics.ntua.gr
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Interests: dielectric spectroscopy techniques; dynamic and equilibrium water sorption measurements; conducting polymers and composites; polymer nanocomposites; glass transition and confinement; polymer dynamics; hydration properties of polymers and biopolymers; glass transition in biological systems
Prof. Dr. Antonio Pizzi
ENSTIB, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Technologies des Industries du Bois, Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1, 27 rue du Merle Blanc, BP 1041, F-88051 Epinal, France
Tel. +33 329 296 117; Fax: +33 329 296 138
Website: http://www.enstib.uhp-nancy.fr
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Interests: polycondensation; resins; adhesives; thermosetting polymers for adhesives; natural polymers for industrial use; fibrous and wood composites; polymeric wood constituents (cellulose, lignin, tannins)
Dr. Marguerite Rinaudo
CERMAV - CNRS, BP53 601 Rue de la Chimie, 38041 Grenoble, cedex 9, France
Tel. +33 476037627; Fax: +33 476547203
Website: http://www.cermav.cnrs.fr/
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Interests: physical properties and chemical modification of polysaccharides; steric exclusion chromatography; rheology of water soluble polymers; polyelectrolytes
Prof. Dr. Lloyd M. Robeson
Lehigh University, 1801 Mill Creek Rd., Macungie, PA 18062 ,USA
Tel. +1 610 481 0117
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Interests: polymer blends; polymer composites; polymer membranes and membrane separations; gas permeability; polymer structure/property relationships; polymers for emerging technologies
Dr. Gregory T. Russell
Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel. +64 33 642 458; Fax: +64 33 642 110
Website: http://www.chem.canterbury.ac.nz/people/russell.shtml
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Interests: kinetics, modeling and theory of radical polymerization; emulsion polymerization; cyclodextrins
Dr. Helmut Schlaad
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Dep. of Colloid Chemistry, Research Campus Potsdam-Golm, 14424 Potsdam, Germany
Tel. +49(0)331-567-9514; Fax: +49(0)331-567-9502
Website: http://www.mpikg.mpg.de/english/03-colloidChemistry/researchGroups/Schlaad/index.html
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Interests: methods of living/controlled ionic polymerization and ring-opening polymerization of heterocycles; polymer modification, \"thio-click\" chemistry; size-exclusion chromatography; polymer colloids and films, composite materials; bioinspired structure formation of polymers, hierarchical structures, polymer complexes
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bioinspired Polymers
Special Issue: Bioconjugates/Biohybrid Polymers
Prof. Dr. Christine E. Schmidt
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 107 W. Dean Keeton, 1 University Station, BME 4.202I, MC C0800, Austin, TX, USA
Tel. +1 512 471 1690; Fax: +1 512 471 0616
Website: http://www.bme.utexas.edu/faculty/schmidt
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Interests: biomaterials; scaffolds; natural polymers; electrically conducting polymers
Contribution:
Special Issue: Natural Polymers
Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert
Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Humboldtstr. 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany & Eindhoven University of Technology, Laboratory of Macromolecular Chemistry and Nanoscience (SMN), Dutch Polymer Institute - Center for Nanomaterials, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Website: http://www.schubert-group.com
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Interests: tailor-made macromolecules; living polymerizations; supramolecular polymers; inkjet printing; mass spectrometry
Prof. Dr. Eric Shaqfeh
Departments of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5025, USA
Tel. +1 (650) 723-3764; Fax: +1 (650) 725-3525
Website: http://antares.stanford.edu/
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Interests: transport mechanics of complex fluids; turbulent drag reduction; dynamics of suspensions of anistropic and deformable particles in suspension; DNA dynamics in mixed flows and in micro- and macro- devices; DNA dynamics in microfluidic devices; polymer dynamics in concentrated solutions; polymer conformational hysteresis in mixed flows
Dr. Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk
Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry and Soft Matter CryoTEM Research Unit, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 40 247 5870
Website: http://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/chemical-engineering-and-chemistry/research/experts-expertise/detail/ep/e/d/19991173/
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Interests: biomimetic materials; biomineralization; polymer self-assembly; cryoTEM; cryo-electron tomography
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Khayet Souhaimi
Department of Applied Physics I, Faculty of Physics, University Complutense of Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 91 394 5185; Fax: +34 91 394 5191
Website: http://www.ucm.es
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Interests: polymeric membrane modification; polymeric membrane processes and theoretical models; polymeric nano-fibers and hollow fibers; polymer nanocomposites; phase separation; fabrication, modification and characterization of polymeric membranes for liquid and gas separations; flat-sheet membranes; hollow-fiber membranes; nano-fiber membranes; composite membranes; membrane processes: ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, membrane distillation, pervaporation, gas separation, etc.; different membrane characterization techniques (SEM, AFM, etc.)
Prof. Dr. Geoffrey M. Spinks
1 School of Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
2 Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI), University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
Tel. +61 2 4221 3010
Website: http://www.uow.edu.au/eng/mmm/staffl/index.html
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Interests: conjugated polymers; carbon nanotubes; hydrogels; polymer nano-composites; mechanical behaviour; mechanical actuation
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Conjugated Polymers
Special Issue: Conjugated Polymers
Dr. Andrzej Stasiak
Center for Integrative Genomic, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 692 42 82; Fax: +14 21 692 42 85
Website: http://www.unil.ch/cig/page50667.html
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Interests: DNA structure and topology; DNA recombination; DNA replication; DNA repair; knotted and catenated polymers
Dr. Gila E. Stein
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, S222 Engineering Building 1, 4800 Calhoun Rd. Houston, TX 77204-4004, USA
Website: http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~gestein/
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Interests: polymer thin films; block copolymers; directed self assembly; lithography; organic photovoltaics
Prof. Dr. Ben Zhong Tang
Department of Chemsitry, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Tel. +852 2358 7375; Fax: +852 2358 1594
Website: http://home.ust.hk/~tangbenz/
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Interests: polymer synthesis; functional materials
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
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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
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Energy Technology for the 21st Century - Materials and Devices
Special Issue: Functional Materials- From Functional Hybrid Materials to Functional Polymers
Special Issue: Metal Containing Ionic Liquids
Special Issue: Energy Technology for the 21st Century - Materials and Devices
Special Issue: Advances in Materials Science
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
Dr. Theo A. Tervoort
Department of Materials, Polymer Technology, ETH Zurich, HCI H513, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 61 88; Fax: +41 44 632 11 78
Website: http://www.polytech.mat.ethz.ch/people/staff/tervoort
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Interests: solid mechanics and micromechanics of polymers; structure/processing/properties relationships of polymers; polymer-assisted processing of metals and ceramics; optics of polymers
Prof. Dr. Patrick Theato
Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 45, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
Tel. +49 40 42838 6009; Fax: +49 40 42838 6008
Website: http://www.theato.net
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Interests: precision macromolecular design; controlled polymerization techniques; post-polymerization functionalization; hybrid polymers; polymer thin films; surface coatings; templating; polymers for optoelectronics; stimuli-responsive polymers; microfluidics
Prof. Dr. Philipp Vana
Funktionelle Polymermaterialien, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstraße 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
Tel. +49 551 391 2753; Fax: +49 551 393 144
Website: http://www.fpm.chemie.uni-goettingen.de/
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Interests: controlled radical RAFT polymerization; synthesis of complex macromolecular; architectures and functional polymers; biomimetic polymer design; polymerizations from surfaces; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; kinetics and mechanism of radical polymerizations; mechanical properties of polymers, modeling and simulation of polymerization processes; electrospray Ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry
Prof. Dr. Ernst Wagner
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Munich Center for System-based Drug Research, Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Butenandtstr. 5-13, Building D, Room 3.030 D-81377 Munich, Germany
Tel. +49 89 2180 77841; Fax: +49 89 2180 77798
Website: http://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/pb/aks/ewagner/
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Interests: therapeutic protein delivery; therapeutic gene delivery; siRNA, oligonucleotide, RNA, pDNA delivery; polymer-based programmed drug delivery
Dr. Christine Wandrey
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Merck Serono Chair in Drug Delivery, station 15, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 693 96 61; Fax: +41 21 693 96 85
Website: http://people.epfl.ch/christine.wandrey
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Interests: water-soluble polymers; polyelectrolytes; polyelectrolyte complexes; hydrogels; biomaterials; radical polymerization/copolymerization; characterization of charged macromolecule; analytical ultracentrifugation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Polyelectrolytes
Dr. Hsing-Lin Wang
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 63 Hacienda, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA
Tel. +1 505 667 9944; Fax: +1 505 667 0851
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Interests: polymer synthesis (conjugated polymers and fullerenes); processing and applications of conjugated polymers; polymer nanofibers and colloids; polymer/metal composites; polymeric sensors and actuators; polyeletrolyte (supramolecular) self-assembly
Prof. Dr. Charles A. Wilkie
Department of Chemistry, Marquette University, PO Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
Tel. +1 414 288 7239; Fax: +1 414 288 7066
Website: http://www.marquette.edu/chem/Wilkie.shtml
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Interests: fire retardancy; nanocomposites and their intersection
Prof. Dr. Roland G. Winkler
Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
Tel. +49 246 161 4220; Fax: +49 246 161 2850
Website: http://www2.fz-juelich.de/iff/Winkler_R/
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Interests: structure, dynamics, rheology of complex fluids (DNA, ultrasoft colloids, flexible and semiflexible polymers, actin filaments); dynamics of soft matter in microfluidic devices; polyelectrolytes; polyelectrolyte-colloid complexation; non-equilibrium phenomena; hydrodynamics; molecular dynamics simulations; mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations; coarse-grained simulations
Prof. Dr. Francoise M. Winnik
Montreal University, Department of Chemistry and faculty of Pharmacy Montreal,QC H3Z 3J7, Canada
Tel. +1 514 340 5179
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Interests: synthesis and modification of polymers; biopolymers; polysaccharides; amphiphilic polymers; fluorescence spectroscopy; self-assembly
Prof. Dr. Ji Ho Youk
Department of Advanced Fiber Engineering, Division of Nano-Systems, Inha University, Incheon, 402-751, South Korea
Tel. +82 328 607 498; Fax: +82 328 730 181
Website: http://www.inha.ac.kr/college/engineering_nano_fiber.asp
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Interests: controlled radical polymerizations; amphiphilic block copolymers; biodegradable block copolymers; polymeric nanoparticles; shape memory polymers
Dr. Shin-ichi Yusa
Department of Materials Science and Chemistry, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan
Tel. +81 79 267 4954; Fax: +81 79 266 8868
Website: http://www.eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp/msc/yusa/index.html
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Interests: controlled/living radical polymerization; RAFT; TERP; water-soluble polymer; self-organization; polymer micelle; bioconjugate polymer
Prof. Dr. Yue Zhao
Department of Chemistry, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 2R1 Canada
Tel. +1 819 821 7090; Fax: +1 819 821 8017
Website: http://pages.usherbrooke.ca/yzhao
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Interests: photosensitive polymers; azobenzene polymers; liquid crystalline polymers; liquid crystal gels; polymer synthesis; self-assembly; multi-functional materials
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