期刊名称:MATERIALS
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ISSN: | 1996-1944
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出版频率: | Semi-monthly
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出版社: | MDPI, ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, CH-4052
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出版社网址: | http://www.mdpi.com/
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期刊网址: | http://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials
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影响因子: | 3.623 |
| 主题范畴: | CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY; METALLURGY & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING; PHYSICS, APPLIED; |
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Materials (ISSN 1996-1944) is an open access journal of related scientific research and technology development. It publishes reviews, regular research papers (articles) and short communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, there is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.
Materials provides a forum for publishing papers which advance the in-depth understanding of the relationship between the structure, the properties or the functions of all kinds of materials. Chemical syntheses, chemical structures and mechanical, chemical, electronic, magnetic and optical properties and various applications will be considered.
Topics Covered
- Class of materials include ceramics, glasses, polymers (plastics), semiconductors, magnetic materials, medical implant materials and biological materials, silica and carbon materials, metals and metallic alloys. All kinds of functional materials including material for dentistry. Composites, coatings and films, pigments. Classes of materials such as ionic crystals; covalent crystals; metals; intermetallics.
- Materials science or materials engineering. Nanoscience and nanotechnology will be considered also.
- Characterization techniques such as electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, calorimetry, nuclear microscopy (HEFIB), Rutherford backscattering, neutron diffraction, etc.
- Fundamental research: Condensed matter physics and materials physics. Continuum mechanics and statistics. Mechanics of materials. Tribology (friction, lubrication and wear). Solid-state physics.
Several topical special issues will be published.
MDPI Publication Ethics Statement
Materials is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.
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Articles published in Materials will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License. MDPI will insert following note at the end of the published text:
© 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Submission of Manuscripts
- Submission Process: Manuscripts for Materials should be submitted online using the MDPI Submission System (SuSy) at susy.mdpi.com. To submit your manuscript using SuSy, register and log in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form for Materials.
- Accepted File Formats:
- Microsoft Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Materials Microsoft Word template file must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
- LaTeX: Manuscripts prepared in LaTeX must be zipped into one ZIP folder (include all source files and images, so that the Editorial Office can modify the manuscript before peer-review, if needed). Ensure to send a copy of your manuscript as a PDF file also, if you decided to use LaTeX. When preparing manuscripts in LaTeX, please use the Materials LaTeX template files.
- Coverletter: Please provide a short cover letter where you detail the reasons why the editors of Materials should consider your paper for publication in this journal. Check in your cover letter whether you supplied at least 5 possible referees. Check if the English corrections are done before submission.
- Note Regarding Conference Papers: Expanded and high quality conference papers are also considered in Materials if they fulfill the following requirements: (1) The paper should be expanded to the size of a research article. (2) The conference paper should be cited and mentioned as a footnote on the first page of the paper. (3) If the authors do not hold the copyright to the published conference paper, authors should seek the appropriate permission from the copyright holder. (4) Authors are asked to disclose the conference paper in their cover letter including a statement on what has been changed compared to the conference paper.
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Manuscript Preparation
- Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
- Formatting / Style: The paper style of Materials should be followed. You may download a template file from the Materials homepage to prepare your paper. It is not necessary to follow the manuscript structure showed in the template file for review papers.
- Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
- Abstract and Keywords: The abstract should be prepared as one paragraph of about 200 words. For research articles, abstracts should give a pertinent overview of the work, its purpose, the main methods or treatments applied; summarize the article's findings or facts and indicate the authors' conclusions or interpretation. As such, the abstract aims at being an objective representation of the article and must not contain results or data which are not presented and substantiated in the main text. Note that abstracts serve two main purposes: on one hand abstracts are used by potential readers to assess the relevancy of an article for their own work. On the other hand, abstracts are used by indexing databases to catalog articles appropriately. Also, three to 10 pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. We recommend that the abstract and the keyword list use words that are specific to the article yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.
- Abstract Graphic: Authors are encouraged to provide a self-explanatory graphical abstract of the paper to be used along with the abstract on the Table of Contents and search results. The graphic should not exceed 600 pixels width/height and can be provided as a PDF, JPG, PNG or GIF file.
- Figures, Schemes and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. We kindly request authors to provide figures and schemes at a sufficiently high resolution (min. 600 pixels width, 300 ppi). Figures and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and a explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but in no case should these be less than 10 pt in size. Authors should use the Table option of MS Word to create tables, rather than tabs, as tab delimited columns are often difficult to format for the final PDF output. Please supply captions for all figures, schemes and tables. The captions should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure or a scheme.
- Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflicts of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the "Acknowledgments" section.
- Acknowledgments: Please clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work (including funds for covering the costs to publish in open access). Note that some funders will not refund article processing charges (APC) if the funder and grant number are not clearly identified in the paper. The Acknowledgments section is placed just before the References section.
- References: Please ensure that a comprehensive list of all relevant references is provided at the end of the manuscript, and that all references are cited within the paper and numbered consecutively throughout the paper (including citations in tables and legends). References should preferably be prepared with a bibliography software package, such as Zotero, EndNote or ReferenceManager. If references are prepared manually they must be checked for integrity and correctness.
- Reference Formatting: All the references mentioned in the text should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript, and be numbered consecutively throughout the paper. Do not repeat references in the references list. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3]. For embedded citations in the text with pagination, use both parentheses and brackets to indicate the reference number and page numbers; for example [5] (p. 10). or [6] (pp. 101–105). Include the full title for cited articles. See the Reference Preparation Guide for more detailed information.
- Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI): Conference slides, video sequences, software, etc., can be included with the submission and published as supplementary material. Please read the information about Supplementary Material Deposit beneath.
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Authorship and Authors Contributions
For research articles with more than one author, authors are asked to prepare a short, one paragraph statement giving the individual contribution of each co-author to the reported research and writing of the paper. The paragraph should be titled "Author Contributions" and placed in the paper before the "Acknowledgement" section and after the "Conflicts of Interest" statement.
Only major contributors should be listed as authors. Those with small or technical contributions can be mentioned in the Acknowledgements section. Authors themselves are responsible for the correct identification and attribution of authorship. According to the COPE standard, to which MDPI adheres, "all authors should agree to be listed and should approve the submitted and accepted versions of the publication. Any change to the author list should be approved by all authors including any who have been removed from the list. The corresponding author should act as a point of contact between the editor and the other authors and should keep co-authors informed and involve them in major decisions about the publication (e.g. responding to reviewers’ comments)." [1]
- Wager, E.; Kleinert, S. Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. In Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment; Mayer, T., Steneck, N., eds.; Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing: Singapore; Chapter 50, pp. 309-16.
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Peer-Review and Editorial Procedure
Initial Check
All submitted manuscripts are received by the Editorial Office. The in-house Managing Editor will perform a preliminary check of the manuscript to assess if: it suits the scope of the journal, whether it is properly prepared, and whether the manuscript follows the ethical policies of the journal. In case of doubt, the Managing Editor may consult with the journals’ Editor-in-Chief or an Editorial Board member. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal or are not in line with our ethical policy may be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission.
Expert Peer-Review
Once a manuscript passes the initial check, it will be assigned to several independent experts for peer-review. Experts may include past and present Editorial Board members and Guest Editors of the journal. However, we also actively seek other experts, which are identified during literature searches. Potential referees suggested by the authors are also carefully considered. As a general rule, referees should not have published with one or more of the co-authors during the past five years and should not currently work or collaborate with one of the institutes of the co-authors of the manuscript under consideration. At least two expert opinions will be collected for each manuscript.
Revisions and Editorial Decision
Based on the comments from the outside referees, the Editorial Office will usually ask the authors for minor or major revisions. If the comments are either very positive or very negative, the Editorial Office may directly ask the academic editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief or a Guest Editor) for a decision. Otherwise, the manuscript will be sent back to the authors for minor or major revisions. In case of minor revisions, the Editorial Office will ask the academic editor for a final decision on the revised version of the manuscript. In case of major revisions, the manuscript will usually be sent back to one or more of the outside referees before sending the paper to the academic editor for a decision. We allow a maximum of two rounds of major revisions.
Author Appeals
Authors may appeal editorial decisions by sending an e-mail to the Editorial Office of the journal. The Managing Editor of the journal will forward the manuscript and relating information (including the identities of the referees) to an appropriate Editorial Board member of the journal. If no appropriate Editorial Board member is available, the editor will identify a suitable external scientist. The Editorial Board member may judge the paper by himself or request additional expert opinions to judge the manuscript. The Editorial Board member will be asked to give an advisory recommendation on the manuscript. If the manuscript is rejected based on the Editorial Board member review, the decision will be final and cannot be revoked.
Production and Publication
Once accepted, a manuscript will undergo our standard production procedure. This entails professional copy-editing of the paper, English editing, proofreading by the authors, final corrections, pagination and publication on the www.mdpi.com website.
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Peer-Review / Referees
During the submission process, authors are asked to suggest five potential referees with the appropriate expertise to review the manuscript. The editors will not necessarily approach these referees. Please provide as detailed contact information as possible (address, homepage, phone, e-mail address). The proposed referees should be experts in the field who can provide an objective report—they should not be current collaborators of the co-authors nor have published with any of the co-authors of the manuscript within the last 5 years. Proposed referees should be from different institutions to the authors. You may identify appropriate Editorial Board members of the journal as potential referees. Another possibility is to select referees from among the authors that you frequently cite in your paper.
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English Corrections
This journal is published in English, so it is essential that for proper refereeing and quick publication all manuscripts are submitted in grammatically correct English. If you are not a native English speaker, we strongly recommend that you have your manuscript professionally edited before submission. Professional editing will mean that reviewers are better able to read and assess your manuscript.
English-language editing will: improve grammar, spelling, and punctuation; improve clarity and resolve ambiguity; and ensure that the tone of the language is appropriate for an academic journal. We suggest that for this purpose your manuscript be revised by an English speaking colleague before submission. Authors can also use one of the English editing services for this purpose. Use of any editing supplier is not compulsory, and will not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication in Materials. For additional information see the English Editing Guidelines for Authors.
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Publication Ethics Statement
Materials is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy.
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Supplementary Material Deposit
In order to maintain the integrity of research records, we encourage authors to submit supplementary data in electronic format, so that important chemical, structural or scientific information is retained in full. Supplementary data and files can be uploaded as "Supplementary Files" during the manuscript submission process. The supplementary files will be offered to the referees as part of the peer-review process, although referees are not specifically asked to review supplementary files. Accepted file formats include (but are not limited to):
- spectral data (NMR, IR, Raman, ESR, etc.) in JCAMP (JDX) format
- 3D coordinate structures (in PDB, MOL, XYZ or other common format)
- crystallographic information (in CIF format)
- data tables and spreadsheets (text files, MS Excel, OpenOffice, CSV, XML, etc.)
- text documents (text files, PDF, MS Word, OpenOffice, etc.)
- images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, etc.)
- videos (AVI, MPG, QuickTime, etc.)
- executables (EXE, Java, etc.)
- software source code
Large data sets and files may also be deposited to specialized service providers (such as Figshare) or institutional repositories (preferably those that use the DataCite mechanism).
Editorial Board
Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Maryam Tabrizian Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine/Faculty of Dentistry, Duff Medical Science Building, Room 313, 3775 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada Tel. +1 514 3988129; Fax: +1 514 3987461 Website: http://www.mcgill.ca/bme/meet-our-faculty/full-time/maryam-tabrizian E-Mail: maryam.tabrizian@mcgill.ca 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. Xiaohua Zhu MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China Tel. +86 10 6280 0830 E-Mail: xiaohua.zhu@mdpi.com
Managing Editor Ms. Ting Zhang MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China Tel. +86 10 62800830 E-Mail: ting.zhang@mdpi.com
Former 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: ataubert@uni-potsdam.de 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. Martyn Rittman MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-Mail: rittman@mdpi.com
Publisher Dr. Shu-Kun Lin MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 79 322 33 79 Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/ E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. 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: baiker@chem.ethz.ch Interests: catalysis; aerogels; flame synthesis; mixed oxides; chiral surfaces; in situ spectroscopy; supercritical fluids
Dr. Giorgio Biasiol AMD - Advanced Material and Devices group, CNR-IOM, TASC Laboratory Laboratory, S.S. 14, Km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza (Trieste), Italy Tel. +39 040 3756439; Fax: +39 040 226767 Website: http://www.tasc.infm.it/research/amd/staff/biasiol.htm E-Mail: biasiol@iom.cnr.it 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; Visiting Professor, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BP, UK Tel. +44 207 594 6731; Fax: +44 207 594 6757 Website: http://www.biomat.techfak.uni-erlangen.de E-Mail: aldo.boccaccini@ww.uni-erlangen.de Interests: biomaterials; porous materials; scaffolds; tissue engineering; bioactive glasses; composite materials; waste recycling; carbon nanotubes; electrophoretic deposition; vascularization; bioceramics; biofabrication; bioactive coatings; drug delivery Contribution: Special Issue: Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Special Issue: Biodegradability of Materials in Biomedical Applications 2011 In other journals: Special Issue: Biodegradability of Materials in Biomedical Applications 2011
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/ E-Mail: dominik.bruehwiler@zhaw.ch 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 Department of Materials, 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: walter.caseri@mat.ethz.ch Interests: inorganic polymers; organometallic polymers; nanocomposites Contribution: Special Issue: Nanocomposites of Polymers and Inorganic Particles In other journals: 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/ E-Mail: dchen@ryerson.ca 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: https://sites.google.com/site/changlechen82/ E-Mail: clchen@uchicago.edu Interests: reduction of CO2; carbon based nano-materials; catalysis; olefin polymerization; polymer chemsitry and physics
Prof. Dr. J. Paulo Davim Department Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Campus Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Fax: +351 234 370953 Website: http://www2.mec.ua.pt/machining/pers-davim.htm E-Mail: pdavim@ua.pt Interests: composites; polymers and metallic alloys; tribology; biotribology; machining; micromanufacturing; sustainable manufacturing; mechanical engineering; manufacturing; materials
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 968745 Website: http://www.unisa.it/docenti/lucianofeo/en/index E-Mail: l.feo@unisa.it 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, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA Tel. +1 914 945 1107 Website: http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-mmfrank E-Mail: mmfrank@us.ibm.com Interests: silicon; compound semiconductors; metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs); high-k gate dielectrics; metal gate electrodes; ferroelectrics; semiconductor-dielectric interfaces
Dr. Robin Gremaud ABB Switzerland Ltd, Corporate Research, Segelhofstrasse 1, CH-5405, Baden-Daettwil, Switzerland Tel. +41 58 586 76 52; Fax: +41 58 586 73 14 E-Mail: robin.gremaud@ch.abb.com 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/ E-Mail: hamouda@qu.edu.qa Interests: engineering materials and design; manufacturing processes;computational mechanics and AI in engineering
Dr. Zhi-Min Hao Brennerstrasse 60, CH-4123 Allschwil, Switzerland E-Mail: zhimin.hao.ch@gmail.com Interests: pigments; functional chromophores; latent pigments; pigment modifications; pigment solid state characteristics Contribution: Special Issue: Functional Colorants In other journals: 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 E-Mail: hernadi@chem.u-szeged.hu 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 E-Mail: h.t.hintzen@tue.nl Interests: nitride; energy; luminescence; photocatalysis; phosphor; battery material Contribution: Special Issue: Luminescent Materials Special Issue: Luminescent Materials 2013
Prof. Dr. Stefan Jacobsen Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway Tel. + 47 73 59 47 00 Website: http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/stefan.jacobsen E-Mail: stefan.jacobsen@ntnu.no Interests: Concrete Materials/Concrete Technology
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: jhje@postech.ac.kr 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/ E-Mail: sergey.kustov@uib.es 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 Professor - Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Director - Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan, NCRC - B10-A175B, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800, USA Tel. +1 734 763 7543 Website: http://www.engin.umich.edu/research/lahann/lahann.htm E-Mail: lahann@umich.edu 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. +49 381 498 6410 Website: http://www.langer.chemie.uni-rostock.de/en/prof-dr-peter-langer/ E-Mail: peter.langer@uni-rostock.de Interests: organic synthesis; heterocycles; organic functional materials
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/files/11-1027-1494.php E-Mail: liawdj@mail.ntust.edu.tw 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: wlinert@mail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at Interests: thermal and optical spin-state transitions; molecular magnets; isokinetic relationships; compensation effect; material science
Prof. 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: thomas.lippert@psi.ch 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 Georgia Institute of Technology, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405, USA Tel. +1(404)894-3012 E-Mail: peter.loutzenhiser@me.gatech.edu 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. Rafael Luque Departamento de Quimica Organica, Universidad de Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio C-3 (Marie Curie - Anexo), Carretera Nacional IV - A, Km. 396, 14014 – Cordoba, Spain Tel. +34 957 211 050 Website: http://www.uco.es/~q62alsor/ E-Mail: q62alsor@uco.es Interests: mesoporous materials; supported nanoparticles; Nanomaterials; green chemistry; biofuels; biomass and waste valorisation Contribution: Special Issue: Advances in Mesoporous Materials Special Issue: Advances in Nanoporous Materials
Dr. Sofoklis Makridis Lecturer Institute for Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies (IREET) University of Bolton Greater Manchester BL3 5AB UK Website: http://www.h2matters.weebly.com E-Mail: S.Makridis@bolton.ac.uk Interests: hydrides; hydrogen storage and compression; nanocomposite intermetallics in polymer matrices; CFD modeling; permanent magnetic materials; carbon dioxide transport and capture; thermoelectrics
Dr. Geminiano Mancusi Deptarment of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Ponte don Melillo street, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy Tel. +39 89 963412; Fax: +39 81 36069746 Website: http://www.unisa.it/docenti/geminianomancusi/index E-Mail: g.mancusi@unisa.it Interests: constitutive behavior of innovative materials; mechanical modeling of composite structures; creep behavior of composites; bucking analysis; structural bonding; periodic materials; FE code development for structural problems Contribution: Special Issue: Constitutive Behavior of Composite Materials
Prof. Dr. Evangelos Manias Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA Website: http://zeus.plmsc.psu.edu/ E-Mail: jfb@plmsc.psu.edu Interests: polymer and organic materials; soft materials; nanostructures; nanocomposites Contribution: In other journals: 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://mathur.uni-koeln.de/845.html E-Mail: sanjay.mathur@uni-koeln.de 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 Laboratory for the Physics of Advanced Materials University of Luxembourg, 162A, Avenue de la Faincerie, L-1511, Luxembourg Tel. +352 466644 6983; Fax: +352 466644 6331 Website: http://www.nanomagnetism.lu E-Mail: andreas.michels@uni.lu Interests: magnetic materials; magnetic nanoparticles; micromagnetism; neutron scattering; thermodynamics and grain-growth kinetics of nanocrystalline materials
Dr. Reza Montazami Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University, IA 50011, USA Tel. +1 515 294 8733 Website: http://www.web.me.iastate.edu/montazami/ E-Mail: reza@iastate.edu Interests: smart materials; functional thin-films; ionic polymer membranes; electro-fuels; polymeric nanostructures Contribution: Special Issue: Smart Polymers and Polymeric Structures
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 E-Mail: gmurphy@vtxmail.ch 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 E-Mail: narciso@ua.es Interests: composite materials; bioinspired materials; carbon materials; Si based ceramics; lights alloys; materials chemistry
Prof. Dr. Petr Novak Section Electrochemical Energy Storage, Department General Energy, Electrochemistry Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, 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: petr.novak@psi.ch 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: osterwal@physik.uzh.ch 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: christian.paglia@supsi.ch 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 E-Mail: greta.patzke@aci.uzh.ch 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, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy Tel. +39 0461 282525; Fax: +39 0461 282599 Website: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~pugno/ E-Mail: nicola.pugno@unitn.it Interests: nanomaterials; nanomechanics; bio-inspired; fracture; strength; adhesion; toughness Contribution: Special Issue: Advances in Bio-inspired Materials
Prof. Dr. Erik Reimhult Head, Department of Nanobiotechnology, Laboratory for Biologically inspired materials, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 11-II, A-1190 Vienna, Austria Tel. +43 1 47654 22 30 Website: http://www.nano.boku.ac.at/BIMat.html E-Mail: erik.reimhult@boku.ac.at 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 Special Issue: Biointerfaces and Materials
Dr. Marco Salerno Department of Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 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/nanophysics-scanning-probe-microscopy/technologist/marco-salerno.html E-Mail: marco.salerno@iit.it Interests: atomic force microscopy; nanoindentation; nanocomposites; anodic porous alumina; cell adhesion substrates Contribution: Special Issue: Selected Papers from PHOTOPTICS 2014
Prof. Dr. Heather Sheardown Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Room JHE-124A, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L7, Canada Tel. +1 905 525 9140 (ext.24794) Website: http://chemeng.mcmaster.ca/sheardown.html E-Mail: sheardow@mcmaster.ca Interests: ophthalmic biomaterials; ophthalmic drug delivery; polymers; surface modification; protein adsorption; cell material interactions; hydrogels; contact lenses; intraocular lenses Contribution: Special Issue: Advances in Biomaterials Special Issue: Biocompatibility of Materials 2013 In other journals: Special Issue: Advances in Ophthalmic Biomaterials
Prof. Dr. Juergen Stampfl TU Wien Inst. fuer Werkstoffwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnologie Favoritenstrasse 9-11 A-1040 Wien, Austria Tel. 43(0)1 58801-30862; Fax: +43(0)1 58801-30895 Website: http://info.tuwien.ac.at/stampfl E-Mail: juergen.stampfl@tuwien.ac.at Interests: additive manufacturing technologies; 3D-printing; materials testing; polymers; ceramics; biomaterials
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://chemistry.uconn.edu/people/faculty/suib.html E-Mail: steven.suib@uconn.edu Interests: manganese oxides; catalysis; ceramics; nanotech; microwaves
Prof. 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: kiyonori.suzuki@monash.edu Interests: magnetic materials; magnetic nanoparticles; amorphous alloys; hydrogen storage alloys; hydrogen permeation alloys Contribution: Special Issue: Hydrogen Storage Alloys
Prof. Dr. Haolin Tang State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan, China Tel. +86 27 87884448; Fax: +86 27 8788 9468 E-Mail: thln@whut.edu.cn Interests: fuel cells; Li-ion battery; electrochemical energy materials; nanostructured electrolyte; electrocatalyst; self-assembling hybrid materials
Dr. Franklin (Feng) Tao Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA Tel. +574 631 1394 Website: http://www.franklin-tao.com/ E-Mail: ftao@nd.edu Interests: catalysis; nano science; materials synthesis Contribution: In other journals: Special Issue: Energy Storage and Conversion
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 E-Mail: teramoto-n@sea.it-chiba.ac.jp 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: anke.weidenkaff@empa.ch 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 Drive, 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: vancew@sfu.ca Interests: organic synthesis; liquid crystals; conjugated polymers; gels; self-assembly; molecular recognition; electronic materials; photochromism; novel aromatic systems Contribution: Special Issue: Quasicrystals In other journals: Special Issue: Molecular Symmetry
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