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期刊名称：POLYMERS ISSN： 2073-4360 出版频率： Monthly 出版社： MDPI, ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, CH-4052   出版社网址： http://www.mdpi.com/ 期刊网址： http://www.mdpi.com/journal/polymers 影响因子： 4.329 主题范畴： POLYMER SCIENCE 变更情况： Newly Added by 2013 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal Imprint Full Journal Title Polymers ISO4 Abbreviated Title Polymers ISSN (electronic) 2073-4360 CODEN POLYCK Publisher MDPI AG Publisher Location Basel, Switzerland Postal Address MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, 4057 Basel, Switzerland Editors see: Editorial Board Publication Frequency quarterly Publication Medium electronic only Publication Website http://www.mdpi.com/journal/polymers First Year Published 2009 Indexing Databases see: Indexing & Abstracting Covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, Web of Science). Impact Factor 1.687 (2012) 5-Year Impact Factor 1.685 (2012) About Polymers Aims Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360) is an international, open access journal of polymer science. It publishes research papers, short communications and review papers. 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. Polymers provides an interdisciplinary forum for publishing papers which advance the fields of (i) polymerization methods, (ii) theory, simulation, and modeling, (iii) understanding of new physical phenomena, (iv) advances in characterization techniques, and (v) harnessing of self-assembly and biological strategies for producing complex multifunctional structures. Scope Polymer chemistry Macromolecular chemistry Biomacromolecules and complex polymer systems Polymeric hybrid materials Polymer physics Polymer characterization Thermodynamics Synthetic polymers Natural polymers Fibers, films Plastics, elastomers Advanced processing of polymers MDPI Publication Ethics Statement Polymers 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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Contact e-mail address is polymers@mdpi.com.   Polymers — Indexing & Abstracting Polymers is covered by following databases and archives: Indexing & Abstracting Services CAS - Chemical Abstracts (ACS) COMPENDEX (Elsevier) Current Contents - Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (Thomson Reuters) DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals Engineering Source (EBSCO) FSTA - Food Science and Technology Abstracts (IFIS) INSPEC (IET) Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters) Polymer Library (Smithers Rapra) SCIE - Science Citation Index Expanded (Thomson Reuters) Scopus (Elsevier) Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) Full-text Archives CLOCKSS e-Helvetica (Swiss National Library Archive) LOCKSS (Digital Archive System) Content Aggregators EBSCOhost (EBSCO Publishing) J-Gate (Informatics India)   Instructions to Authors Polymers — Instructions for Authors Please first read the section 'Aims & Scope' to have an overview, and to assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal. Shortcuts Submission Manuscript Preparation Peer-Review and Editorial Procedure Review / Referees English Corrections MDPI Publication Ethics Statement Supplementary Material Please use the MS Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your paper. Submission of Manuscripts Submission Process: Manuscripts for Polymers 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 Polymers. 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 Polymers 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 Polymers LaTeX template files. Coverletter: Please provide a short cover letter where you detail the reasons why the editors of Polymers 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 Polymers 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. [Return to top] 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 Polymers should be followed. You may download a template file from the Polymers 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, and that all references are cited within the paper. 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. [Return to top] 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. [Return to top] 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. [Return to top] 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 Polymers. Additional information: see the English Editing Guidelines for Authors. [Return to top] Publication Ethics Statement Polymers 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. [Return to top] 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 Polymers — Editors Journal Contact Polymers Editorial Office MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, 4057 Basel, Switzerland E-Mail: polymers@mdpi.com Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18 Editorial Office Editorial Board Editorial Office Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Alexander Böker * DWI an der RWTH Aachen e.V., Lehrstuhl für Makromolekulare Materialien und Oberflächen, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, D-52056 Aachen, Germany Tel. +49 241 80 23304; Fax: +49 241 80 23317 Website: http://www.ipc.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?id=359 E-Mail: boker@mdpi.com Interests: guided block copolymer assembly; orientation and phase behavior of block copolymers in electric fields; block copolymer/nanoparticle composites; self-assembly of nanoparticles at interfaces; Pickering-Emulsions; template directed nanoparticle assembly; pattern transfer * Founding Editor-in-Chief of Polymers Managing Editor Ms. Cathy Wang MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China Tel. +86 10 6280 0830 E-Mail: cathy.wang@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. Paschalis Alexandridis Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260-4200, USA Tel. +1 716 6451183 Website: http://www.cbe.buffalo.edu/alexandridis E-Mail: palexand@buffalo.edu Interests: self-assembly of block copolymers; solvent quality effects on polymer structure; associating polymers and polymer-surfactant interactions in aqueous solutions; polymer-templated nanoparticle synthesis and organization Contribution: Special Issue: Waterborne Polymers Prof. Dr. Christopher Barner-Kowollik * Institut für Technische Chemie und Polymerchemie, Lehrstuhl für Präparative Makromolekulare Chemie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesser Str. 18 , Geb. 11.23, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel. +49 721 608 5641 Website: http://www.macroarc.de/ E-Mail: christopher.barner-kowollik@kit.edu Interests: precision macromolecular design; novel conjugation chemistries; novel controlling protocols; kinetics and mechanism of polymerizations; high resolution mass spectrometry * Advisory Board Member Prof. Dr. Gary L. Bowlin Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main St., Room E1254, P.O. Box 843067, Richmond, VA 23284-9002, USA Tel. +1 804 828 2592; Fax: +1 804 828 4454 Website: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~glbowlin/ E-Mail: glbowlin@vcu.edu Interests: electrospinning; tissue engineering; scaffolds; vascular tissue engineering; bone tissue engineering; in situ regeneration, angiogenesis Prof. Dr. Jean-François Carpentier Institute of Chemistry, Organometallics: Materials and Catalysis Group, UMR 6226, University of Rennes, 1 – 35042 Rennes Cedex, France Tel. +33 223 235 950; Fax: +33 223 236 939 Website: http://scienceschimiques.univ-rennes1.fr/catalyse/carpentier/index.html E-Mail: jcarpent@univ-rennes1.fr Interests: metal-based polymerization catalysis; coordination-insertion polymerization; metallocenes; post metallocene catalysts; stereoselective polymerization; polyolefins; ring-opening polymerization; chemical modification of polymers Prof. Dr. Walter Remo Caseri 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: Polymer-Inorganic Hybrids and Their Applications In other journals: Special Issue: Nanocomposites of Polymers and Inorganic Particles Prof. Dr. Carlo Cavallotti Politecnico di Milano, Departement of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical > Engineering, via Mancinelli 7, 20131 Milano, Italy E-Mail: carlo.cavallotti@polimi.it Interests: polymerization kinetics; ab initio and DFT estimation of rate constants; KMC simulation of reactive systems; molecular dynamics; bioseparation matarials; polymer-protein interactions Dr. Seth B. Darling Argonne National Laboratory, Center for Nanoscale Materials, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439, USA Tel. +1 630 252 4580; Fax: +1 630 252 4646 Website: http://nano.anl.gov E-Mail: darling@anl.gov Interests: block copolymers; organic photovoltaics; hybrid photovoltaics; hybrid organic/inorganic nanomaterials; self-assembly Prof. Dr. Matthew G. Davidson Director of the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, Head of Inorganic Chemistry Group Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK Tel. +44 122 538 6443; Fax: +44 122 538 6231 Website: http://www.bath.ac.uk/chemistry/contacts/academics/matthew_davidson/ E-Mail: m.g.davidson@bath.ac.uk Interests: sustainable chemistry; ring-opening polymerization; stereoselective polymerization; renewable polymers; organometallic chemistry Prof. Dr. Ernesto Di Mauro Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Charles Darwin", Università "La Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro, 5 00185 Roma, Italy Tel. +39 06 4991 2880; Fax: +39 06 4991 2500 E-Mail: ernesto.dimauro@uniroma1.it Interests: abiotic polymerization; DNA structure; DNA topology; RNA structure; evolution of macromolecules; biological evolution Prof. Dr. Paul Dubin Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, 710 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst MA 01003 USA Tel. +1 413 577 4167 Website: http://www.chem.umass.edu/faculty/dubin.html E-Mail: dubin@chem.umass.edu Interests: polyelectrolyte-protein complexation, including interactions of glycosaminoglycans and proteins; polyelectrolyte-micelle interactions; complex coacervation; electrostatically-driven protein aggregation; protein separation by selective coacervation Prof. Dr. Benny D. Freeman University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, 10100 Burnet Road, Building 133, Room 1.308B, Austin, TX 78758, USA Tel. +1 (512) 232-2803; Fax: +1 (512) 232-2807 Website: http://membrane.ces.utexas.edu E-Mail: freeman@che.utexas.edu Interests: gas separation materials; gas/vapor barrier materials; membranes for water purification; membrane module modeling Prof. Dr. Ruth Freitag Chair for Process Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany Tel. +49 921 55 7370; Fax: +49 921 55 7375 Website: http://www.bioprozesstechnik.uni-bayreuth.de/ E-Mail: ruth.freitag@uni-bayreuth.de Interests: stimuli-responsive; materials; bioconjugates; synthetic biodelivery systems; bioseparation engineering; scaffolds for tissue engineering; encapsulation; monolithic stationary phases for chromatography and electrochromatography Prof. Dr. Kurt E. Geckeler Department of Nanobio Materials and Electronics (DNE), World-Class University Program (WCU), and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), 1 Oryong-dong, Buk-gu Gwangju 500-712, Korea Tel. +82-62-970-2316; Fax: +82-62-970-2338 Website: http://mse.gist.ac.kr/~mseamc/ E-Mail: keg@gist.ac.kr Interests: bionanomaterials; inorganic nanotubes and nanoparticles; nanomedicine; nanostructured polymers; nanosized molecular architectures; supramolecular polymers; biomedical and biocompatible polymers; drug delivery systems; functional polymers; polymer-metal complexes; conducting polymers; stimuli-sensitive materials; chemosensors; polymers for environmental remediation Dr. Russell E. Gorga Textile Engineering, Fiber and Polymer Science, NC State University, Campus Box 8301 Raleigh, NC 27695, USA Tel. +1 919 515 6553; Fax: +1 919 515 6532 Website: http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/rgorga E-Mail: regorga@ncsu.edu Interests: composite nanofibers; structure property relationships of fibrous materials; mechanical and electrical properties of polymeric materials; tissue engineering scaffolds; antimicrobial scaffolds Dr. Michael D. Guiver National Research Council Canada, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0R6, Canada E-Mail: michael.guiver@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Interests: membrane gas separation polymers; fuel cell membranes; polymers of intrinsic microporosity; click chemistry polymers Contribution: Special Issue: Polymers for Fuel Cells & Solar Energy Prof. Dr. Stephen Harding School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, NCMH Building, Sutton Bonington, LE12 5RD, UK Tel. +44 115 951 6148; Fax: +44 115 951 6142 Website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ncmh E-Mail: steve.harding@nottingham.ac.uk Interests: hydrodynamics; solutions; natural polymers; mass; shape; heterogeneity; interactions Prof. Dr. Gürkan Hizal Istanbul Technical University, Department of Chemistry, Maslak, 34469, Istanbul, Turkey Tel. +90 212 2856047; Fax: +90 212 2856386 Website: http://www.kimya.itu.edu.tr/polimer E-Mail: hizal@itu.edu.tr Interests: controlled radical polymerizations; photoinduced radical or cationic polymerization; synthesis and modification of polymers Prof. Dr. Richard Hoogenboom Supramolecular Chemistry group, Department of Organic Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Tel. +31 9 264 4482 Website: http://www.sc.ugent.be/ E-Mail: richard.hoogenboom@ugent.be Interests: polymer chemistry; controlled polymerization; living cationic ring-opening polymerization; responsive polymers; hydrophilic polymers; poly(2-oxazoline)s; supramolecular materials; self-assembly Contribution: Special Issue: Stimuli-Responsive Polymers and Colloids Dr. Wei Min Huang School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798 Singapore Tel. +65 67 904 859; Fax: +65 67 924 062 Website: http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/mwmhuang/ E-Mail: mwmhuang@ntu.edu.sg Interests: shape-memory polymers; shape memory hybrids; shape-memory composites; conductive polymers; polymer nanocomposites Contribution: Special Issue: Novel Stimuli-Responsive (co)Polymers Special Issue: Shape-Memory Polymers Prof. Dr. Scott M. Husson Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0909, USA Tel. +1 (864) 656-4502; Fax: +1 (864) 656-0784 Website: http://www.clemson.edu/ces/departments/chbe/faculty_staff/husson_s.html E-Mail: shusson@clemson.edu Interests: adsorptive membranes; bioseparations; confocal microscopy; electrospinning; membrane chromatography; polymer thin films; surface modification; thin-film composite membranes; water purification Prof. Dr. Søren Hvilsted Technical University of Denmark, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Danish Polymer Centre, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Tel. +45 4525 2965; Fax: +45 4588 2161 Website: http://www.kt.dtu.dk/English.aspx E-Mail: sh@kt.dtu.dk Interests: ATRP; click on polymers; fuel cell polymers; azobenzene containing polymers for holographic storage; biomedical polymers Prof. Dr. Do-Hoon Hwang Department of Chemistry, Pusan National University, 30 Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeong-gu, Busan 609-735, Korea Tel. +82-51-510-2232; Fax: +82-51-516-7421 E-Mail: dohoonhwang@pusan.ac.kr Interests: polymer synthesis; organic electronic materials; polymer light-emitting diodes; organic thin film transistors; organic photovoltaic devices; dye-sensitized solar cells, organic memory devices; photo-curable polymers; organic insulators; photo-resists Contribution: Special Issue: Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Electronic Devices Dr. Patrick Ilg Polymer Physics, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland Tel. +41 44 632 08 39; Fax: +41 44 632 10 76 Website: http://www.polyphys.mat.ethz.ch/people/senior_researchers/pilg E-Mail: patrick.ilg@mat.ethz.ch Interests: structure and rheology of soft matter (polymer solutions and melts, liquid crystals and liquid crystalline polymers, colloidal magnetic fluids, supercooled liquids and glasses); polymer dynamics in flow; multiscale modeling and simulation; coarse-graining methods; nonequilibrium statistical physics and thermodynamics Prof. Dr. Hatsuo Ishida Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7202, USA Tel. +1 216 368 4285; Fax: +1 216 368 4164 E-Mail: hxi3@cwru.edu Interests: benzoxazine; polybenzoxazine; composite interfaces; surface treatment of fillers and fibers; nanocomposite; vibrational spectroscopy (IR, Raman) of polymers Dr. Thomas Junkers Polymer Reaction Design Group, Instiute of Materials Research (IMO), University of Hasselt, Agoralaan, D 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium E-Mail: thomas.junkers@uhasselt.be Interests: controlled radical polymerization; polymerization kinetics; polymer conjugation; radical spin traps; novel polymerization protocols; mass spectrometry of polymers Prof. Dr. Kazunori Kataoka University of Tokyo, Department of Materials Engineering, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan Tel. +81 3 5841 7138; Fax: +81 3 5841 7139 Website: http://www.bmw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/index.html E-Mail: kataoka@bmw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Interests: block copolymers; drug delivery systems; polymeric micelles; gene delivery; biomaterials; self-assembly; smart materials; nanomedicine; gene therapy Prof. Dr. Mohamed Souhaimi Khayet Department of Applied Physics I, Faculty of Physics, University Complutense of Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain Tel. +34 91 394 5185; Fax: +34 91 394 5191 Website: http://www.ucm.es E-Mail: khayetm@fis.ucm.es Interests: polymeric membrane modification; polymeric membrane processes and theoretical models; polymeric nano-fibers and hollow fibers; polymer nanocomposites; phase separation; fabrication, modification and characterization of polymeric membranes for liquid and gas separations; flat-sheet membranes; hollow-fiber membranes; nano-fiber membranes; composite membranes; membrane processes: ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, membrane distillation, pervaporation, gas separation, etc.; different membrane characterization techniques (SEM, AFM, etc.) Prof. Dr. Martin Kröger Polymer Physics, Department of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland Tel. +41 44 632 66 22; Fax: +41 44 632 10 76 Website: http://www.complexfluids.ethz.ch E-Mail: mk@mat.ethz.ch Interests: computational polymer physics; complex liquids; anisotropic liquids; coarse-graining issues; new simulation methods; nonequilibrium phenomena; polymer brushes, melts, solutions, gels, and networks; dendritic structures; scaling concepts; topology; pattern recognition; molecular dynamics Contribution: Special Issue: Multiscale Simulations in Soft Matter Prof. Dr. Sebastien Lecommandoux Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO), UMR CNRS 5629, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, de Biologie et de Physique de Bordeaux (ENSCBP-IPB), Université de Bordeaux, 16 Avenue Pey Berland, 33607 Pessac cedex, France Tel. +33 5 40 00 22 41; Fax: +33 5 40 00 84 87 Website: http://www.lcpo.fr/ E-Mail: lecommandoux@enscbp.fr Interests: block copolymer self-assembly; stimuli-responsive nanostructures; polymersomes; hybrid polymer/nanoparticles structures; therapeutic applications; drug delivery systems; theranostics Prof. Dr. Kang Li Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ, UK Tel. +44 207 594 5676 Website: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/kang.li E-Mail: kang.li@imperial.ac.uk Interests: preparation and characterisation of polymeric membranes; fluid separations using membranes; membrane reactor design Prof. Dr. Robert J. Linhardt Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Biology and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Biotech. Center 4005 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA Tel. +1 518 276 3404; Fax: +1 518 276 3405 Website: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/chem_faculty/profiles/linhardt.html E-Mail: linhar@rpi.edu Interests: chemoenzymatic synthesis of acidic oligosaccharides; samarium-catalyzed carbon glycoside synthesis; synthesis of UDP-sugars; synthesis of nanomaterial-carbohydrate conjugates Prof. Dr. Shiyong Liu Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui Province 230026, China Tel. +86 551 3607348; Fax: +86 551 3607348 Website: http://polymer.ustc.edu.cn/liu/ E-Mail: sliu@ustc.edu.cn Interests: responsive polymers; supramolecular functional materials; polymer chemistry; chemosensors and biosensors; kinetics in complex fluids Prof. Dr. Katja Loos Department of Polymer Chemistry, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands Tel. +31-50-3636867; Fax: +31-84-2236001 Website: http://www.rug.nl/zernike/loos E-Mail: k.u.loos@rug.nl Interests: biocatalysis in polymer chemistry; enzymatic polymerizations; green polymer chemistry; biocatalytic monomer synthesis; biocatalytic polymer modification; enzyme immobilization; unraveling the mechanism of biocatalytic polymerizations; biobased monomers and polymers; sustainability; polysaccharides; starch; anionic polymerization; block copolymer synthesis Contribution: Special Issue: Enzymes in Monomer and Polymer Synthesis Prof. Dr. Andrew B. Lowe Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Tel. +61 293 856 031; Fax: +61 293 855 966 Website: http://www.camd.unsw.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=296%3Aandrew-lowe&catid=37%3Astaff&Itemid=1 E-Mail: a.lowe@unsw.edu.au Interests: RAFT; ROMP; thiol-ene; click chemistry; water-soluble polymers; stimulus responsive polymers Contribution: Special Issue: Click Chemistry in Polymer Science Special Issue: Water-Soluble Polymers Prof. Dr. Matthias P. Lutolf Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Bioengineering, Station 15, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Tel. +41 21 693 18 76 Website: http://lscb.epfl.ch E-Mail: matthias.lutolf@epfl.ch Interests: biomolecular hydrogels; stimuli-sensitive materials; proteolytically degradable materials; novel conjugation chemistries; materials for tissue engineering and cell culture; 2D and 3D patterning of biomaterials Contribution: Special Issue: Microfluidic-Assisted Synthesis and Modification of Polymeric Materials Prof. Dr. João F. Mano 3B's Research Group—Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho, AvePark, Zona Industrial da Gandra, S. Cláudio do Barco, 4806-909 Caldas das Taipas, Guimarães, Portugal Tel. +351 253 510 900; Fax: +351 253 510 909 Website: http://www.3bs.uminho.pt/users/jfmano E-Mail: jmano@dep.uminho.pt Interests: tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; drug delivery systems; nanomedicine; biomaterials from biodegradable polymers and composites; biomimetics; nanobiomaterials; smart/stimuli-responsive systems Contribution: Special Issue: Biomimetic Polymers Prof. Dr. Toshio Masuda Department of Environmental and Biological Chemistry, Fukui University of Technology, Gakuen 3-6-1, Fukui 910-8505, Japan Tel. +81 776 29 2714; Fax: +81 776 29 2714 E-Mail: masuda@fukui-ut.ac.jp Interests: polymer synthesis; transition metal-catalyzed polymerization; functional polymers; conjugated polymers; gas separation membranes Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meier Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 (0)61 267 38 02; Fax: +41 (0)61 267 38 55 Website: http://www.chemie.unibas.ch/~meier/index.html E-Mail: wolfgang.meier@unibas.ch Interests: interactions between synthetic polymers and model colloids; polymerization of hydrophobic monomers in lipid bilayers; hollow polymer particles with dimensions in the submicrometer range; polymerizable amphiphilic block copolymers; reconstitution of membrane proteins in superstructures formed by amphiphilic block copolymers Prof. Dr. Goerg H. Michler Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute for Physics, 06099 Halle/S., Germany Tel. +49 34 61 / 46 27 45; Fax: +49 34 61 / 46 25 35 Website: http://www.physik.uni-halle.de/aww/index.htm E-Mail: goerg.michler@physik.uni-halle.de Interests: electron microscopy (including SEM, TEM); atomic force microscopy (AFM); morphology of polymers; micromechanical poperties; nanostructured polymers; toughness enhancement; nanocomposites; biomedical polymers Dr. Graeme Moad CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Bag 10, Clayton South, Victoria 3169, Australia Tel. +61 395 452 509; Fax: +61 395 452 446 Website: http://www.csiro.au/people/Graeme.Moad.html E-Mail: graeme.moad@csiro.au Interests: polymer design and synthesis; polymerization kinetics and mechanism; reversible deactivation radical polymerization (e.g., RAFT, NMP); reactive extrusion Contribution: Special Issue: Living Polymerization Techniques Dr. Alexander B. Morgan Advanced Polymers Group, Multiscale Composites and Polymers Division, University of Dayton Research Institute, 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469-0160, USA Tel. +1-937-229-3079; Fax: +1-937-229-3433 Website: http://www.udri.udayton.edu/ContactUs/People/Pages/AlexanderMorgan.aspx E-Mail: alexander.morgan@udri.udayton.edu Interests: materials science; polymer decomposition; polymer flammability; flame retardancy; polymer nanocomposites Dr. Yasuhiro Morisaki Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan Tel. +81 75 383 2610; Fax: +81 75 383 2607 Website: http://chujo.synchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.cgi?page=Assistant+Professor+Yasuhiro+Morisaki E-Mail: ymo@chujo.synchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp Interests: conjugated polymer; optically active polymer; hetero-atom containing polymer; macrocycle; single molecular wire Contribution: Special Issue: Single Molecular Wire Prof. Dr. Kell Mortensen University of Copenhagen, The Niels Bohr Institute, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg, Denmark Tel. +45 3533 2311 E-Mail: kell@life.ku.dk Interests: structural properties of biomolecules and polymers; molecular selfassembly; biomembrane and membrane proteins; synthetic biology; X-ray and neutron scattering Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany Tel. +49 6131 379 151; Fax: +49 6131 379 350 Website: http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/groups/muellen/ E-Mail: muellen@mpip-mainz.mpg.de Interests: new polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry; multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures; functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes; dyes and laser writing into polymers; chemistry and physics of single molecules; molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices; materials for lithium or hydrogen storage; biosynthetic hybrids; nanocomposites Contribution: Special Issue: New Polymer Synthesis Reactions Prof. Dr. George R. Newkome Departments of Polymer Science & Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-4717, USA Tel. +1 (330) 972-6458 Website: http://www2.uakron.edu/cpspe/DPS/newkome.php E-Mail: newkome@uakron.edu Interests: synthetic and structural studies in diverse areas of chemistry, supramolecular, and nanotechnology; dendrimers; metallosuperstructures Contribution: Special Issue: Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers Prof. Dr. Jung Kwon (John) Oh Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, SP275.09 Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada Tel. +1 514 848 2424 Website: http://chem.concordia.ca/people/faculty/Oh.php E-Mail: joh@alcor.concordia.ca Interests: design and processing of nanoscale macromolecular biomaterials for biomedical applications Contribution: In other journals: Special Issue: Advances in Nanoscale Biomaterials Prof. Dr. Ton Peijs School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London, UK Tel. +44 20 7882 8865; Fax: +44 20 8981 9804 Website: http://www.cmr.qmul.ac.uk/ E-Mail: t.peijs@qmul.ac.uk Interests: nanocomposites; polymer composites; structure/processing/properties relationships of polymer composites; polymer fibres; conductive polymer composites; self-reinforced polymers; cellulose; biobased materials Contribution: Special Issue: Electrospinning Techniques and Novel Applications of Electrospun Nanofibers Dr. Sébastien Perrier Key Centre for Polymers & Colloids, School of Chemistry, Building F11, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Tel. +61 (2) 9351 3366; Fax: +61 (2) 9351 3329 Website: http://www.kcpc.usyd.edu.au/ E-Mail: s.perrier@chem.usyd.edu.au Interests: RAFT polymerization; living radical polymerization; self-assembly; supramolecular chemistry; block copolymers; peptides; nanostructures Prof. Dr. Polycarpos Pissis National Technical University of Athens, Department of Physics, Zografou Campus, 157 80 Athens, Greece Tel. +30 210 772 2986; Fax: +30 210 772 2932 Website: http://www.physics.ntua.gr E-Mail: ppissis@central.ntua.gr Interests: dielectric spectroscopy techniques; dynamic and equilibrium water sorption measurements; conducting polymers and composites; polymer nanocomposites; glass transition and confinement; polymer dynamics; hydration properties of polymers and biopolymers; glass transition in biological systems Prof. Dr. Antonio Pizzi ENSTIB, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Technologies des Industries du Bois, Université de Lorraine, 27 rue Philippe Seguin, BP 1041, F-88051 Epinal, France Tel. +33 329 296 117; Fax: +33 329 296 138 Website: http://www.enstib.uhp-nancy.fr E-Mail: antonio.pizzi@enstib.uhp-nancy.fr Interests: polycondensation; resins; adhesives; thermosetting polymers for adhesives; natural polymers for industrial use; fibrous and wood composites; polymeric wood constituents (cellulose, lignin, tannins) Dr. Marguerite Rinaudo ESRF - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility BP 220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France E-Mail: marguerite.rinaudo@sfr.fr Interests: physical properties and chemical modification of polysaccharides; steric exclusion chromatography; rheology of water soluble polymers; polyelectrolytes Prof. Dr. Lloyd M. Robeson Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA Tel. +1 610 481 0117 E-Mail: lesrob2@verizon.net Interests: polymer blends; polymer composites; polymer membranes and membrane separations; gas permeability; polymer structure/property relationships; polymers for emerging technologies Contribution: Special Issue: Polymer Blends Dr. Gregory T. Russell Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand Tel. +64 33 642 458; Fax: +64 33 642 110 Website: http://www.chem.canterbury.ac.nz/people/russell.shtml E-Mail: greg.russell@canterbury.ac.nz Interests: kinetics, modeling and theory of radical polymerization; emulsion polymerization; cyclodextrins Dr. Helmut Schlaad Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Dept. of Colloid Chemistry, Research Campus Golm, 14424 Potsdam, Germany Tel. +49(0)331-567-9514; Fax: +49(0)331-567-9502 Website: http://www.mpikg.mpg.de/english/03-colloidChemistry/researchGroups/Schlaad/index.html E-Mail: helmut.schlaad@mpikg.mpg.de Interests: methods of living/controlled ionic polymerization and ring-opening polymerization of heterocycles; polymer modification, \"thio-click\" chemistry; size-exclusion chromatography; polymer colloids and films, composite materials; bioinspired structure formation of polymers, hierarchical structures, polymer complexes Contribution: Special Issue: Bioinspired Polymers Special Issue: Bioconjugates/Biohybrid Polymers Prof. Dr. Christine E. Schmidt Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, BMSB JG-42, P.O. Box 116131, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Tel. +1 352-273-9222; Fax: +1 352-273-9221 E-Mail: schmidt@bme.ufl.edu Interests: biomaterials; scaffolds; natural polymers; electrically conducting polymers Contribution: Special Issue: Natural Polymers Special Issue: Natural Polymers 2014 Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC) Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Humboldtstr. 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany Website: http://www.schubert-group.com E-Mail: ulrich.schubert@uni-jena.de Interests: tailor-made macromolecules; living polymerizations; supramolecular polymers; inkjet printing; mass spectrometry Prof. Dr. Eric Shaqfeh Departments of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5025, USA Tel. +1 (650) 723-3764; Fax: +1 (650) 725-3525 Website: http://antares.stanford.edu/ E-Mail: esgs@stanford.edu Interests: transport mechanics of complex fluids; turbulent drag reduction; dynamics of suspensions of anistropic and deformable particles in suspension; DNA dynamics in mixed flows and in micro- and macro- devices; DNA dynamics in microfluidic devices; polymer dynamics in concentrated solutions; polymer conformational hysteresis in mixed flows Dr. Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry and Soft Matter CryoTEM Research Unit, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands Tel. +31 40 247 5870 Website: http://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/chemical-engineering-and-chemistry/research/experts-expertise/detail/ep/e/d/19991173/ E-Mail: n.sommerdijk@tue.nl Interests: biomimetic materials; biomineralization; polymer self-assembly; cryoTEM; cryo-electron tomography Prof. Dr. Geoffrey M. Spinks 1 School of Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia 2 Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI), University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia Tel. +61 2 4221 3010 Website: http://www.uow.edu.au/eng/mmm/staffl/index.html E-Mail: gspinks@uow.edu.au Interests: conjugated polymers; carbon nanotubes; hydrogels; polymer nano-composites; mechanical behaviour; mechanical actuation Contribution: In other journals: Special Issue: Conjugated Polymers Special Issue: Conjugated Polymers Dr. Andrzej Stasiak Center for Integrative Genomic, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Tel. +41 21 692 42 82; Fax: +14 21 692 42 85 Website: http://www.unil.ch/cig/page50667.html E-Mail: andrzej.stasiak@unil.ch Interests: DNA structure and topology; DNA recombination; DNA replication; DNA repair; knotted and catenated polymers Dr. Gila E. Stein Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, S222 Engineering Building 1, 4800 Calhoun Rd. Houston, TX 77204-4004, USA Website: http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~gestein/ E-Mail: gestein@uh.edu Interests: polymer thin films; block copolymers; directed self assembly; lithography; organic photovoltaics Prof. Dr. Ben Zhong Tang Department of Chemsitry, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China Tel. +852 2358 7375; Fax: +852 2358 1594 Website: http://home.ust.hk/~tangbenz/ E-Mail: tangbenz@ust.hk Interests: polymer synthesis; functional materials Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Building 26, Rm. 2.64, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, D-14476 Golm, Germany Tel. +49 (0)331 977 5773; Fax: +49 (0)331 977 5055 Website: http://www.chem.uni-potsdam.de/atb/index.htm 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 Contribution: In other journals: Special Issue: Energy Technology for the 21st Century - Materials and Devices Special Issue: Functional Materials- From Functional Hybrid Materials to Functional Polymers Special Issue: Energy Technology for the 21st Century - Materials and Devices Special Issue: Advances in Materials Science Special Issue: Metal Containing Ionic Liquids Special Issue: Ionic Liquids 2014 & Selected Papers from ILMAT 2013 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 Dr. Theo A. Tervoort Department of Materials, Polymer Technology, ETH Zurich, HCI H513, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Tel. +41 44 632 61 88; Fax: +41 44 632 11 78 Website: http://www.polytech.mat.ethz.ch/people/staff/tervoort E-Mail: theo.tervoort@mat.ethz.ch Interests: solid mechanics and micromechanics of polymers; structure/processing/properties relationships of polymers; polymer-assisted processing of metals and ceramics; optics of polymers Prof. Dr. Patrick Theato Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 45, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany Tel. +49 40 42838 6009; Fax: +49 40 42838 6008 Website: http://www.theato.net E-Mail: theato@chemie.uni-hamburg.de Interests: precision macromolecular design; controlled polymerization techniques; post-polymerization functionalization; hybrid polymers; polymer thin films; surface coatings; templating; polymers for optoelectronics; stimuli-responsive polymers; microfluidics Dr. Patrick van Rijn Department of BioMedical Engineering FB-40, University of Groningen/University Medical Center Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands. Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands Website: http://www.bme-umcg.nl E-Mail: p.van.rijn@umcg.nl Interests: biohybrid systems; polymeric microgels; surface chemistry; biomaterials; self-assembly Prof. Dr. Philipp Vana Makromolekulare Chemie, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstraße 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany Tel. +49 551 391 2753; Fax: +49 551 393 2709 Website: http://www.fpm.chemie.uni-goettingen.de/ E-Mail: pvana@uni-goettingen.de Interests: controlled radical RAFT polymerization; synthesis of complex macromolecular; architectures and functional polymers; biomimetic polymer design; polymerizations from surfaces; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; kinetics and mechanism of radical polymerizations; mechanical properties of polymers, modeling and simulation of polymerization processes; electrospray Ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry Contribution: Special Issue: Complex Macromolecular Architectures Prof. Dr. Ernst Wagner Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Munich Center for System-based Drug Research, Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Butenandtstr. 5-13, Building D, Room 3.030 D-81377 Munich, Germany Tel. +49 89 2180 77841; Fax: +49 89 2180 77798 Website: http://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/pb/aks/ewagner/ E-Mail: ernst.wagner@cup.uni-muenchen.de Interests: therapeutic protein delivery; therapeutic gene delivery; siRNA, oligonucleotide, RNA, pDNA delivery; polymer-based programmed drug delivery Dr. Christine Wandrey Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Merck Serono Chair in Drug Delivery, station 15, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Tel. +41 21 693 96 61; Fax: +41 21 693 96 85 Website: http://people.epfl.ch/christine.wandrey E-Mail: christine.wandrey@epfl.ch Interests: water-soluble polymers; polyelectrolytes; polyelectrolyte complexes; hydrogels; biomaterials; radical polymerization/copolymerization; characterization of charged macromolecule; analytical ultracentrifugation Contribution: Special Issue: Polyelectrolytes Dr. Hsing-Lin Wang C-PCS, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA Tel. +1 505 667 9944; Fax: +1 505 667 0851 E-Mail: hwang@lanl.gov Interests: polymer synthesis (conjugated polymers and fullerenes); processing and applications of conjugated polymers; polymer nanofibers and colloids; polymer/metal composites; polymeric sensors and actuators; polyeletrolyte (supramolecular) self-assembly Contribution: Special Issue: Polymer Colloids Prof. Dr. Frank Wiesbrock PCCL - Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Roseggerstrasse 12, 8700 Leoben, Austria Tel. +43 3842 42962 42 E-Mail: frank.wiesbrock@pccl.at Interests: functional polymers; ring-opening polymerizations; crosslinked polymers; biopolyesters; polymeranalogous modifications Prof. Dr. Charles A. Wilkie Department of Chemistry, Marquette University, PO Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA Tel. +1 414 288 7239; Fax: +1 414 288 7066 Website: http://www.marquette.edu/chem/Wilkie.shtml E-Mail: charles.wilkie@marquette.edu Interests: fire retardancy; nanocomposites and their intersection Prof. Dr. Roland G. Winkler Theoretical Soft Matter and Biophysics, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany Tel. +49 246 161 4220; Fax: +49 246 161 2850 Website: http://www2.fz-juelich.de/iff/Winkler_R/ E-Mail: r.winkler@fz-juelich.de Interests: structure, dynamics, rheology of complex fluids (DNA, ultrasoft colloids, flexible and semiflexible polymers, actin filaments); dynamics of soft matter in microfluidic devices; polyelectrolytes; polyelectrolyte-colloid complexation; non-equilibrium phenomena; hydrodynamics; molecular dynamics simulations; mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations; coarse-grained simulations Prof. Dr. Francoise M. Winnik Montreal University, Department of Chemistry and faculty of Pharmacy Montreal,QC H3Z 3J7, Canada Tel. +1 514 340 5179 E-Mail: francoise.winnik@umontreal.ca Interests: synthesis and modification of polymers; biopolymers; polysaccharides; amphiphilic polymers; fluorescence spectroscopy; self-assembly Prof. Dr. Ji Ho Youk Department of Advanced Fiber Engineering, Division of Nano-Systems, Inha University, Incheon, 402-751, South Korea Tel. +82 328 607 498; Fax: +82 328 730 181 Website: http://www.inha.ac.kr/college/engineering_nano_fiber.asp E-Mail: youk@inha.ac.kr Interests: controlled radical polymerizations; amphiphilic block copolymers; biodegradable block copolymers; polymeric nanoparticles; shape memory polymers Dr. Shin-ichi Yusa Department of Materials Science and Chemistry, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan Tel. +81 79 267 4954; Fax: +81 79 266 8868 Website: http://www.eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp/msc/yusa/index.html E-Mail: yusa@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp Interests: controlled/living radical polymerization; RAFT; TERP; water-soluble polymer; self-organization; polymer micelle; bioconjugate polymer Prof. Dr. Yue Zhao Department of Chemistry, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 2R1 Canada Tel. +1 819 821 7090; Fax: +1 819 821 8017 Website: http://pages.usherbrooke.ca/yzhao E-Mail: yue.zhao@usherbrooke.ca Interests: photosensitive polymers; azobenzene polymers; liquid crystalline polymers; liquid crystal gels; polymer synthesis; self-assembly; multi-functional materials