Editor in Chief
Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: nano and biomaterials, drug delivery and targeting, antimicrobial thin coatings, antimicrobial nanoparticles.
Assistant Editors
Alexandra Burdusel
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Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: 3D bioprinting, drug targeting, drag delivery.
Cristina Chircov
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Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: drug delivery and targeting, 3D printing;
Alexandra Elena Oprea
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Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials;
Maria Elena Zarif
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Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: synthesis and characterization of nanobiomaterials;
Associate Editors
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, United States
Research interests: new photosensitizers for infections, cancer, and heart disease;
Environmental and Analytical Chemistry Division, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT University, India
Research interests:
interaction between metal nanoparticles and toxic heavy metals, remediation of toxic heavy metals using metal nanoparticles and toxic effects of nanomaterials;
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Biology, Microbiology Department, Romania
Research interests: investigation of antibiotic resistance at phenotypic, molecular and epidemiological level; phenotypic and genotypic investigation of bacterial virulence; investigation of host-infectious agents relationships by in vitro and experimental pathology assays; assessment of novel chemical structures for their antimicrobial activity); nanotechnology in microbiology;
Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
Research interests: biomaterials, tissue engineering, drug delivery, cell micro-environment, microfluidics
Editorial Board
Howard I. Maibach
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Department of Dermatology, 90 Medical Center Way, Surge Building Room 110, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Research interests: allergic skin disorders and skin conditions caused by exposure to toxic substances
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
Research interests: Additive manufacturing of polymers and composites; Multifunctional polymer composites and nanocomposites: self-repairing, structural composites, evaluation of materials using experimental mechanics, rheology, thermal, spectroscopic and microscopic analysis;
Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Material Science, Romania
Research interests: thin coatings, laser ablation, nanomaterials, drug delivery;
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Biology, Microbiology Department, Romania
Research interests: pplied microbiology; Immunology; Virology;
Departamento de Química Fisica, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
Research interests: electron transfer kinetics at films composed of spherical nanomaterials and polymers, thiol and nanorods, thiol and nanostars or films of nanodendrites for applications in electrochemical sensing, fuel cells or energy storage devices.
Evghenia Bezirtzoglou
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Democritus University of Thrace Faculty of Agricultural Development, Department of Food Science and Technology, Greece
Research interests: microbial ecology, gastrointestinal microflora, food and environmental microbiology.
Keng-Shiang Huang
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The School of Chinese Medicine for Post-Baccalaureate, I-Shou University, Ta-Hsu Hsiang, Taiwan
Research interests: microfluidic controlling; microdroplet; microfluidici chip fabrication; antimicrobial polymers; pulsatile delivery;
Carmen Limban
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University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Faculty of Pharmacy, Romania
Research interests: Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Materials Chemistry; Antimicrobials; Natural Product Chemistry; Heterocyclic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Chemical Synthesis; IR; Pharmaceutical Chemistry;
Department of Biotechnology, SGB Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India
Research interests: microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. His present research interests include application of nanobiotechnology in medicine and agriculture, in particular the use of metallic nanoparticles as new generation of antimicrobials.
Department of Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology of Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine
Research interests: Antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial properties of plant products, antimicrobial properties of metallic nanoparticles, biostatistics.
Keng-Liang Ou
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College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Research interests: Biomedical Engineering; Bioengineering; Clinical Trials; Dentistry; Engineering Physics; Dental Surgery;
National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Laser Department, Magurele, Romania
Research interests: Laser-Assisted Processing by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation (MAPLE), Rapid Prototyping by Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation Direct Write (MAPLE DW) & Reverse MAPLE – a Novel Chemical Templating Approach for Controlled-Release Drug Delivery Systems.
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Research interests: controlled preparation of layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanomaterials, calcium phosphate (CaP) nanoparticles, nanoemulsions (NEs), quantum dots (QDs), chemosensors (CSs) and nanosensors (NSs), and their applications in biomedicine and agriculture.
Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: issue engineering; drug delivery systems; multifunctional materials; composite materials; antimicrobial / antitumoral materials; nanoparticles synthesis and characterization; surface modification;
Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Research interests: Method development and validation by HPLC, GC, IC, with applications in the analysis of organic substances in forensics, toxicology, food, biological, pharmaceutical and samples of environmental interest using various modern sample preparation techniques.
Department of Materials, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Research interests: novel nanomaterials synthesis and fabrication and their applications in energy and life sciences. Metal and semiconducting nanoparticles are prepared by both bottom-up and top-down methods such as colloidal lithography, nanoimprint lithography, and wet chemical synthesis/self-assembly.
Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Research interests: Material Characterization; Nanomaterials Synthesis; X-ray Diffraction; Materials; Nanomaterials; Material Characteristics; Advanced Materials; Materials Processing; Synthesis.
Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
Research interests:
Shinihci Arakawa
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Department of Lifetime Oral Health Care Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Research interests: Periodontics and oral pathology.
Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain
Research interests: host-microbe interactions, microbial diversity, and antibiotic resistance in the environment.
Department of Pharmacognosy & Phytotherapy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania
Research interests:
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Chemistry, Romania
Research interests: coordingation chemistry, inorganic synthesis, materials chemistry, thermal analysis.
Yu Cao
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Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan P. R. China
Research interests:
Xiaojun Zhang,
School of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Electronics Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing , China
Research interests:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
Research interests: Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics,Exergy and Second Law Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Nonlinear Analysis,Engineering Mathematics, Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Nanofluids Flow forIncreasing Heat Transfer, Study of Magnetohydrodynamic Viscous Flow and Study of MagneticBeads Motion (Creeping Flow Regime).
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Research interests:
Christian Hellmich
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Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Research interests: well-validated material and (micro)structural models, both for materials such as concrete, soil, rock, wood, or bone as well as man-made biomaterials, and for structures such as tunnels, pipelines, bridges, or the vertebrate skeleton including implants and tissue engineering scaffolds – with complementary experimental activities if necessary
Fengzhu Zhai Cui
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Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
Research interests: Biomaterials and Applications; Tissue Engineering; Biomineralization.
Hydro-Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Research interests: Energy Storage and Conversion Materials; Solid State Ionics; Energy & Environmental Science; Novel materials for Li-ion; Mg-; Na-; Li-air batteries; Solid Electrolytes; Microbatteries; Supercapacitors; Nanomaterials; Materials Synthesis & Characterization; Electrochromics: Corrosion Science; CO2 capture materials; Solar cells
PRE Labs Inc., Kelowna, Canada
Research interests: Microfluidic devices for tissue and fiber production, Synthesis of composites in gels, Smart fibers, Nanocomposite Coatings with novel methods
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Research interests: Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Environmental Science
Faculty of Sciences & Technology, Mascara University, Algeria
Research interests: structural, mechanical, magnetic and optoelectronic properties of crystalline materials using Density functional theory (DFT) as implemented in some computer packages.
Melinda Varga
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3D Systems Packaging Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Research interests:
Vilnius University, Inst. Applied Research, Sauletekio10, 10223, Vilnius, Lithuania
Research interests: Application of light in life sciences; Biomedical optics: fundamental, applications, clinical investigation; Food safety and quality: development of novel non-thermal antimicrobial technologies; Biophotonic technologies for organic agriculture and food safety and quality: inactivation of pathogenic and harmful micro organisms
College of Biosystems Engineering & Food Science, Zhejiang University, China
Research interests:
Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: ntimicrobial therapy; nanostructured drugs; biofilms; host-pathogen interactions;
Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “Nicolae Simionescu” (ICBP), Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: Molecular biology, cell culture, cell biology.
Valentina Grumezescu
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Lasers Department, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania
Research interests: thin coatings; modulation of microbial biofilm; drug targeting; hard tissue engineering;
Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Research interests: design, development, and characterization of new drug delivery systems. Other research interests include the controlled delivery of drugs across biological barriers, e.g. skin, gastrointestinal tract and blood-brain-barrier.
A.A. Pantazaki
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Dept. of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Research interests:
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria – RS – Brazil
Research interests: food biotechnology with emphasis on microalgal biotechnology.
Non-Destructive Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research Centre, iPROMISE, Universiti Teknologi, MARA, Malaysia
Research interests: Oral/transdermal drug delivery; Particle design; Polymeric drug delivery system; Wound dressing; Pharmaceutical analysis; Pharmaceutical processor design.
Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: antimicrobials, nanomaterials, organic synthesis, drug targeting and delivery.
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Milan State University, Italy
Research interests: Bioactive phytochemicals, foods and medicinal plants.
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Division of Pharmacognosy, Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy Research Laboratory, Jadavpur University, India
Research interests: Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy Research , Traditional Medicines & Drug Discovery;
Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Dr. Qarib St, Keshavarz Blvd, Iran
Research interests: Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases; genetics & heredity; immunology; primary immunodeficiency disorders; Cancer Immunology;
School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Research Interests: Polymer Composites, 3D printing of polymers and Hydrogels
Elias C. Aifantis
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece / Mechanics and Optics University ITMO, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Research interests: dislocation patterning and material instabilities, gradient elasticity and plasticity, chemomechanics and nanomechanics.
Deliyanni Α. Eleni
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Department of Chemistry, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Research interests: Adsorption/separation processes in environmental applications; Materials Chemistry; Synthesis and surface characterization of new adsorbent materials; Modification/impregnation of materials; Carbon materials as adsorbents; Graphite oxide based/polymer nanocomposite adsorbents; Deep desulfurization of fuels; Biomass conversion to activated carbon; Advanced oxidation processes/Catalytic oxidation;
Ren-Cun Jin
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College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, China
Research interests: water pollution control and environmental biotechnology, which includes biological nitrogen removal technology (i.e., anaerobic ammonium oxidation) development, high-efficient bioreactor design, and optimization of wastewater treatment system for energy-saving and pollutant-reduction;
Department of Chemical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), India
Research interests: Biotechnology, Reaction Engineering, Process Intensification, Separation Technology, Environmental Engineering, Ionic Liquids, Nanotechnology, CFD, Modeling & Simulation, and Reliability Engineering;
Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, India
Research interests: Improving oral bioavailability of BCS class II and Class IV drugs using polymeric conjugates and lipid based systems like microemulsions, nanoemulsions, solid lipid nanoparticles and nanostructured lipid carriers
Department of Chemistry, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Research interests: molecular modeling and QM/MM calculations of macro-biomolecules, electronic structure calculations of nano-biomolecules, non-bonded electronic structure of BnNn rings, NMR contour maps, and quantum investigations of non-bonded interactions.
CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Research interests: immune metabolic deregulations in chronic inflammatory diseases; tumour metabolism, anticancer drugs and nanomedicines, biological responses to nanomaterials.
Department of Mathematics, University of Hacettepe, Turkey
Research interests: Fluid mechanics, Hydrodynamic stability theory, Rotating-disk flow, High-Reynolds number flows, Triple-deck asymptotic theory of compressible viscous flows, Numerical simulation.
Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Tandogan, Turkey
Research interest: analysis of pharmaceuticals with using separation techniques especially on liquid chromatography, method development and their validation, electroanalytical techniques, novel electrode materials, nano-structured materials, surface–modified electrodes, fabrication of biosensors and nano-sensors, analysis of pharmaceuticals from their dosage forms and biological samples.
Cristobal Noe Aguilar Gonzalez
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Department of Food Research (DIA-UAdeC), School of Chemistry, University Autonomous of Coahuila, Mexico
Research interest: Tannase; Bioactive Extraction; Active Peptides; Active Oligosaccharides; Candelilla Wax; Tannins-Gallic acid-Ellagic acid; Solid-State Fermentation; Edible Films and Coatings; Bioactives and Bioactivities; Biocontrol
Laboratory of Photobiology and Molecular Microbiology, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India
Research interest: UV radiation effects on aquatic ecosystems (DNA damage and repair, phycobiliproteins, mycosporine-like amino acids and scytonemin)
Department of Environmental Chemical Pollutants and Pesticides, National Institute for Environmental Research, School of Public Health , Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Research interest: Study on the identification of mosquitoes using molecular genetics; Investigation on the mechanisms involved in insecticide resistance in arthropods; Study on the functional basis of insecticide resistance on malaria vectors; Using of biological contort agents including Lagenidium giganteum, Bacillus thuringiensis for malaria vectors.
School of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, Scotland, United Kingdom
Research interest: advanced water and wastewater treatment technologies and processes; pollution remediation;
Sanjay K. Jain
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Pharmaceutics Research Projects Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. H. S. Gour Central University, India
Research interest: Controlled Release, Nanoparticles, Formulations, Controlled Drug Delivery, Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Biomaterials, Liposomes, Nano Drug Delivery
School of Chemistry, Shoolini University, India
Research interest: Nanocomposites, Bimetallic & trimetallics nanoparticles,Green Chemistry, Photocatalysis, Ion exchanger and Environmental remediation
School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, China
Research interest: Energy Catalysis and Chemical Engineering, Nano Functional Materials, Petrochemicals, Carbon management (CCUS) , Environmental Engineering, Polymer & Chemical Sciences; Fischer Tropsch Synthesis, Clean Energy (Hydrogen, etc), Li Battary, Supecapacitor, CNT, GN, Plasma
Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ciencias Aplicadas Dr. Jorge J. Ronco (CINDECA), Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Argentina
Research interest: thin films and nanotechnology, mesoporous materials, catalyst design.
Biofuels and Bioprocessing Research Center, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Khandagiri Square, Near PNB, India
Research interest: Biodiesel from Microalgae, Biomineral processing for extraction of metal values from ores, concentrates and wastes. Bioleaching, Biobenefication, Bioadsorption, Bioprecipitation, Bioremediation, Microbial strain improvement.
Institute of Electronics and Sensor Materials, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany.
Research interest: marine biomaterials, biominerals, biocomposites and biomimetics.
Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metal & Materials (Ministry of Education), and College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China
Research interest: Surface modification of functional inorganic nanomaterials for various applications; natural polysaccharide for bio-applications; magnetic and fluorescent nanomaterials; hyperbranched polymers.
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Research interest: analytical chemist; interfacial chemistry.
Miao Ming
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State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, China
Research interest: Food Chemistry, Food Processing and Engineering, Food and Nutrition, Food Safety, Food Technology, Enzymes.
Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy
Research interest: Synthesis and characterization of biomaterials; Bone tissue engineering; Biomaterials for tissue engineering;
Department “Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physiology and Pathophysiology”, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Research interest: Dye chemistry, dendrimers, fluorescent polymers, fluorescence, PET sensors, artificial antenna systems, biological systems
Department of Engineering and Informatics Systems, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Research interests: Machine technology, Surface technology, Surface electrochemistry studies, Hydrogen embrittlement cases, Electrochemical corrosion studies, Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation.
Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Research interests: Transport phenomena, Unit processes, Physicochemical Engineering, Mathematical modeling, Interfaces Science, Controlled Release modeling.
School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, China
Research interests: Green Chemistry, Sustainability, Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Carbon Nanostructures, Molten Salt Chemistry, Materials Characterization, Materials Chemistry.
Energy & Environment Research Center, Institute for Sustainable Energy/College of Sciences, Shanghai University, China
Research interests: electrochemical reduction of CO2 to low-carbon fuels.
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, NUS, Singapore
Research interests: Immunotherapy and targeted therapy of cancer, cancer vaccine, cancer genome and cfDNA based cancer screening.
University Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
Research interests: analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, chemistry of nanomaterials, biosensors, next generation nucleic acids and protein biosensors, novel chemical biology and biomaterials approaches,
point-of-care micro devices, agro/food based applied biotechnology
Stem Cell Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Research interests: Microfluidic-based synthesis of nanobiomaterials for designing efficient nanobio-targeting molecules
Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, Austria
Research interests: Conversion of surplus materials of (agro)industrial origin towards value-added bio-products (polyhydroxyalkanoates); Optimization of biopolyesters production regarding economics, productivity and product quality (material performance) (polyhydroxyalkanoates); Downstream processing for efficient and sustainable recovery of intracellular bio-products (polyhydroxyalkanoates)
Unit of Microbiology, Division of Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece
Research interests: Microbial Biotechnology; single cell oil; microbial (yeast, fungal, algal) lipid biosynthesis and biotechnology; polyunsaturated fatty acids; organic acids; degradation of phenolics; Microbial metabolism of glycerol, methanol, fatty acids; modelling.
Heinz Hendrik
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Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder, United States
Research interests: Computer simulation of inorganic-(bio)organic interfaces and biomineralization; Design of catalysts and functional materials; Development of force fields for the prediction of multiphase material properties; Hierarchical simulation of building materials and multiscale mechanics; Structure-property relationships in polymer nanocomposites.
Catalonia Institute for Energy Research – IREC, Spain
Research interests: Biosensors; Nanoparticles; Chemical phisycs of materials; Autoassembly;
Nanostructures; Optic materials; Semiconductors; Nanomaterials; Magnetics; Nanobiotechnology; Mini and micro robots
School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University, China | Massachusetts Institute of Techonology, Cambridge, USA
Research interests: Design and synthesis of novel conjugated polymer-based molecular systems, and fabrication of organic optoelectronic devices; Conducting polymer hydrogels and their applications.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Research interests: wine technology and microbiology, anthocyanins and stable pyranoanthocyanins, emerging technologies of food processing and preservation.
Violeta Navarro,
Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, Leiden, Netherlands
Research interests:
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
Research interests: Micromachining techniques and thin film technology; Deposition and characterization of piezoelectric films (AlN, ZnO, PZT) by reactive sputtering; Theory of propagation of mechanical waves in solids and their simulation by Finite Element modeling (FEM).
Eirini Marouli
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William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Research interests: Computational Biology, Genetics, disease prediction.