Editor in Chief
Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu
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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,
Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: 3D bioprinting, drug targeting, drag delivery.
Cristina Chircov ,
Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: drug delivery and targeting, 3D printing;
Alexandra Elena Oprea,
Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials;
Maria Elena Zarif,
Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: synthesis and characterization of nanobiomaterials;
Associate Editors
Michael R Hamblin,
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, United States
Research interests: new photosensitizers for infections, cancer, and heart disease;
Badal K. Mandal,
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;
Carmen Chifiriuc,
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;
Editorial Board
Howard I. Maibach,
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
Vijay K. Thakur,
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;
Dan Eduard Mihaiescu,
Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Material Science, Romania
Research interests: thin coatings, laser ablation, nanomaterials, drug delivery;
Veronica Lazar,
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Biology, Microbiology Department, Romania
Research interests: pplied microbiology; Immunology; Virology;
Mariana Chirea,
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,
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,
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,
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;
Mahendra K. Rai,
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.
Kateryna Kon,
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,
College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Research interests: Biomedical Engineering; Bioengineering; Clinical Trials; Dentistry; Engineering Physics; Dental Surgery;
Rodica Cristescu,
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.
Zhi Ping (Gordon) Xu,
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.
Anton Ficai,
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;
Victoria Samanidou,
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.
Fang Xie,
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.
Vladimir K. Ivanov,
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.
Santiago D. Palma,
Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
Research interests:
Shinihci Arakawa,
Department of Lifetime Oral Health Care Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Research interests: Periodontics and oral pathology.
Jose Luis Balcazar,
Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain
Research interests: host-microbe interactions, microbial diversity, and antibiotic resistance in the environment.
George D. Mogosanu,
Department of Pharmacognosy & Phytotherapy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania
Research interests:
Mihaela Badea,
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Chemistry, Romania
Research interests: coordingation chemistry, inorganic synthesis, materials chemistry, thermal analysis.
Yu Cao,
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:
Mohammad M. Rashidi,
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).
Piotr Lulinski,
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Research interests:
Christian Hellmich,
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
Frank Trixler,
Center for NanoSciene & Department for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany
Research interests:
Fu-Zhai Cui,
Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
Research interests: Biomaterials and Applications; Tissue Engineering; Biomineralization.
M.V. Reddy,
Departments of Physics & Chemistry Graphene Center, Advanced Batteries Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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
Mazeyar P. Gashti,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Research interests: Microfluidic devices for tissue and fiber production, Synthesis of composites in gels, Smart fibers, Nanocomposite Coatings with novel methods
Mu. Naushad,
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Research interests: Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Environmental Science
Rabah Khenata,
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,
3D Systems Packaging Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Research interests:
Zivile Luksiene,
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
He Yong,
College of Biosystems Engineering & Food Science, Zhejiang University, China
Research interests:
Alina Maria Holban,
Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: ntimicrobial therapy; nanostructured drugs; biofilms; host-pathogen interactions;
Florin Iordache,
Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “Nicolae Simionescu” (ICBP), Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: Molecular biology, cell culture, cell biology.
Valentina Grumezescu,
Lasers Department, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania
Research interests: thin coatings; modulation of microbial biofilm; drug targeting; hard tissue engineering;
Eliana M. Barbosa Souto,
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,
Dept. of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Research interests:
Eduardo Jacob-Lopes,
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria – RS – Brazil
Research interests: food biotechnology with emphasis on microalgal biotechnology.
Tin Wui Wong,
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.
Paul Balaure,
Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: antimicrobials, nanomaterials, organic synthesis, drug targeting and delivery.
Marcello Iriti ,
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Milan State University, Italy
Research interests: Bioactive phytochemicals, foods and medicinal plants.
Subhash C. Mandal,
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;
Nima Rezaei,
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;
Hazizan bin Md Akil,
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
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,
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,
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;
Kailas L. Wasewar,
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;
Javed Ali,
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
Majid Monajjemi
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.
Iola Melissa Fernandes Duarte
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.
Mustafa Turkyilmazoglu,
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.
Sibel A. Ozkan,
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,
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
Rajeshwar Sinha,
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)
Hassan Vatandoost,
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.
Jia-Qian Jiang,
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,
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
Gaurav Sharma,
School of Chemistry, Shoolini University, India
Research interest: Nanocomposites, Bimetallic & trimetallics nanoparticles,Green Chemistry, Photocatalysis, Ion exchanger and Environmental remediation
Wei (Willy) Chu,
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
Luis R. Pizzio,
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.
