期刊名称：SILICON ISSN： 1876-990X 出版频率： Bi-monthly 出版社： SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 3311 GZ   出版社网址： http://www.springer.com/ 期刊网址： http://www.springer.com/chemistry/inorganic+chemistry/journal/12633 影响因子： 2.67 主题范畴： CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL;    MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 变更情况： 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal Silicon Editor-in-Chief: Stephen Clarson ISSN: 1876-990X (print version) ISSN: 1876-9918 (electronic version) Journal no. 12633 Description Silicon is the only international, interdisciplinary journal solely devoted to the most important element of the 21st Century. Silicon's coverage is unique in presenting all areas of silicon research and development across all disciplines. Silicon is a quarterly journal publishing the very latest cutting edge research in materials chemistry, materials physics, materials biology, materials engineering and environmental science. The silicon community is in the midst of aggressive research initiatives with significant R&D efforts continuing in crystalline and amorphous silicon, silica, silicones, silsesquioxanes, silicon carbide, silanes and silicates to name a few. Silicon's editorial board includes silicon materials chemists and materials and device physicists who geographically represent North America, Asia, and Europe. Silicon is the only journal devoted to the spectacular diversity of silicon. Silicon is a truly interdisciplinary journal which caters to chemists, physicists, biologists, engineers and environmental scientists. Silicon offers a balanced perspective, publishing contributions from researchers in academia, industry, and national research laboratories. Examines all areas of silicon research and development across all disciplines Indexed by Thomson Reuters/ISI Presents the latest cutting edge research in materials chemistry, materials physics, materials biology, materials engineering and environmental science Offers a balanced perspective, publishing contributions from researchers in academia, industry, and national research laboratories Features short communications, original articles, essays, and reviews Silicon is the only international, interdisciplinary journal solely devoted to the most important element of the 21st Century. Silicon's coverage is unique in presenting all areas of silicon research and development across all disciplines. Silicon is a quarterly journal publishing the very latest cutting edge research in materials chemistry, materials physics, materials biology, materials engineering and environmental science. The silicon community is in the midst of aggressive research initiatives with significant R&D efforts continuing in crystalline and amorphous silicon, silica, silicones, silsesquioxanes, silicon carbide, silanes and silicates to name a few. Silicon's editorial board includes silicon materials chemists and materials and device physicists who geographically represent North America, Asia, and Europe. Silicon is the only journal devoted to the spectacular diversity of silicon. Silicon is a truly interdisciplinary journal which caters to chemists, physicists, biologists, engineers and environmental scientists. Silicon offers a balanced perspective, publishing contributions from researchers in academia, industry, and national research laboratories. 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Siddharth Patwardhan Department of Chemical and Process Engineering University of Strathclyde Glasgow G1 1XJ UK. Ichiro Yamashita NAIST - Nara Institute of Science and Technology Takayama, Ikoma Nara 630-0192 Japan. Technical Editor:  Marie Elizabeth Clarson Editorial Advisory Board: Sylvie Boileau, Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est (Paris, France); Joseph T. Boyd, University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA); Bhanu P. S. Chauhan, William Paterson University (Wayne, USA); Julian Chojnowski, Polish Academy of Sciences (Lódz, Poland); Stephen Clarke, University of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia); Thibaud Coradin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France); James Crivello, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York, USA); Petar Dvornic, Michigan Molecular Institute (Midland, Michigan, USA); Alan Esker, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia, USA); Hendrik Heinz, University of Akron (Akron, Ohio, USA); Yusuke Kawakami, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Ishikawa, Japan); Stephen Kinrade, Lakehead University (Ontario, Canada); Melanie Leng, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, British Geological Survey (Keyworth, UK); Jukka Pekka Matinlinna, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong); Werner Müller, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Mainz, Germany); Aziz Muzafarov, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia); Michael Owen, Michigan Molecular Institute (Midland, Michigan, USA); Mario Pagliaro, Co-Chairman - SuNEC 2011, CNR (Palermo, Italy); Carole Perry, Nottingham Trent University (Nottingham, UK); Murali Sastry, Tata Chemicals Ltd. (Pune, India); David A. Schiraldi, Case Western Reserve University (Ohio, USA); Peyman Servati, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada); Steve Smith, Procter and Gamble Company (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA); Richard Soref, Air Force Research Laboratory (Massachusetts, USA); Mark Soucek, University of Akron (Akron, Ohio, USA); Miriam Steinitz-Kannan, Northern Kentucky University (Highland Heights, Kentucky, USA); Eric Struyf, University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium); Engel Vrieling, University of Groningen (Haren, Netherlands); Julie Willoughby, NC State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA); Deren Yang, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China); Iskender Yilgör, Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey); Paul M. Zelisko, Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada).         Meet the Editor-in-Chief  Meet the Editor-in-Chief Stephen Clarson  Stephen Clarson was born and educated in England but currently resides in Cincinnati with his wife, their two daughters and one son. He obtained his doctoral degree in Chemistry at the University of York, England in 1985 where he studied with the late Tony Semlyen. He then spent the summer of 1985 at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in Prague, Czechoslovakia before taking up a postdoctoral appointment with James Mark. In 1988 he joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. During the period 1992-1998 he was the Associate Director and then Director of the Polymer Research Center and from 1995-2000 Dr. Clarson served a five year term as Assistant Dean for Educational Development in the College of Engineering. He is currently Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the NSF I/UCRC Membrane Science and Technology Center. In January, 2000 Dr. Clarson was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He has received numerous awards for his teaching including the Neil Wandmacher Excellence in Teaching Award in 1993 for 'Most Outstanding Teacher in the College of Engineering', the TEXNIKOI Award in 1992 for 'Outstanding Teaching and Service to the College of Engineering' and the Engineering Tribunal Award, for 'Outstanding Teacher of the Quarter', Spring Term, 1992 and Spring Term, 1995. He was nominated by the UC student chapter to membership of the engineering honors society Tau Beta Pi in 1999. Dr. Clarson has published over two hundred technical articles and co-authored the books 'Siloxane Polymers' (1993), 'Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials' (2000), 'Synthesis and Properties of Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials' (2003) and ‘The Science and Technology of Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials’ (2007). The research carried out in his group has led to a number of inventions and he holds five US patents and two Japanese patents. He has been PI or Co-PI of research awards totaling over $4M in the past ten years and his current scientific research interests include materials chemistry, polymer synthesis, silicon-based chemistry, biomaterials, biomineralization, biocatalysis, optoelectronic materials, thin films and surface science. Meet the Associate Editors  Meet the Associate Editors William D. Hawthorne  William Hawthorne is a consultant across material science. Having studied Chemistry at University College, London, and Polymer Science at the University’s of Lancaster and York he enjoyed a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Professor George Gray at the University of Hull investigating side-chain liquid crystalline polymers, including synthesizing the first cyclic liquid crystalline polymers. After working in the polymer industry in the UK and the USA, Dr Hawthorne became the founding editor of Trends in Polymer Science. Subsequently he joined Schlumberger as a fibre-optic research scientist, becoming the recognised expert on the causes and mitigation of optical loss in optical fibres in extreme environments. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed and internal technical papers. Nicola Hüsing  Nicola Hüsing is Professor of Materials Chemistry at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria. She studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg and graduated in 1994 with her diploma thesis on highly porous oxides. During her dissertation on the sol-gel chemistry-based chemical modification of silica aerogels with Prof. Dr. U. Schubert, she began working at the Vienna University of Technology. In addition, she spent 7 months at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996, as a DAAD fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. J.I. Zink working on the interaction of enzymes with nanoscale sol-gel based matrices. After receiving her Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Würzburg, she received the Harry-Klöpfer Aerosil award sponsored by Degussa and she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship (Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship, Austria) with Prof. Dr. C.J. Brinker (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico) on nanostructured thin films. Returning to Vienna she was a group leader of the porous materials group in the Institute of Materials Chemistry and gained her lecturing qualification in 2003. A year later, in 2004, she became a full professor at the Ulm University, Germany, followed by a full professorship of materials chemistry in 2010 at the Salzburg University. Her research interest focus on the synthesis of sol-gel based porous materials, nanoscale inorganic materials and mesoscopically organized systems, especially with respect to synthesis – structure – property relations. She was awarded the Donald-Ulrich Award of the International Sol-Gel Society in 2005. Her expertise in the field of nanoscale materials prepared by sol-gel based methods is visible in 5 review articles, 75 scientific papers published in reviewed international journals, and by several invited presentations in International Meetings. She is also co-author of 5 patents and a textbook on the synthesis of inorganic materials. Textbook: Materials Syntheses - A Practical Guide (Schubert/Hüsing/Laine) Siddharth Patwardhan  Dr. Siddharth V. Patwardhan obtained his first degree in Petrochemical Engineering from the University of Pune (2000). Under the guidance of Professor S. J. Clarson, Siddharth worked on bioinspired silica synthesis and received Master of Science (2002) and PhD (2003) degrees in the department of Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He was appointed as a Visiting Scholar and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Delaware where he worked in Dr. Kristi Kiick's group. Dr. Patwardhan pursued further research on chemistry of materials at biointerface as a postdoctoral researcher at Nottingham Trent University in Professor C. C. Perry's group. After a brief period of lectureship in Chemistry at Nottingham Trent University, Siddharth is now a lecturer in Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow). Dr. Patwardhan's research areas include hybrid and nanostructured materials and coatings; colloids and interfaces; and synthetic and biological polymers. Current research projects in his groups are driven by industrial applications of nanomaterials and focussed on developing green technologies for the preparation of functional nano-bio-materials with high throughputs. Dr. Patwardhan has published over 35 papers, reviews and book chapters, delivered over 20 conference presentations and organized symposia “Synthetic and Biological Macromolecules for Emerging Nanotechnologies” at American Chemical Society’s National Meetings. University of Strathclyde - Patwardhan Ichiro Yamashita  Dr Ichiro Yamashita was educated in the Department of Electronic Engineering in the Graduate School of Kyoto University. He is currently Chief Researcher at the Advanced Technology Research Laboratories of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd (MEI). Dr. Yamashita is also a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School Materials of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, a member of the Intelligent Nano-Process Collaboration Core of Tohoku University, a project leader of the Leading Project by MEXT, and a Research Representative for the Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology of the Japan Science and Technology Corporation.