Editor-in-Chief:

Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS
International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences
University of Karachi
Karachi-75270
Pakistan

Associate Editors:

E. Ruiz-Hitzky (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Y. Shen (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)
L.Q. Wang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Assistant Editor:

K. Avgoustakis (University of Patras, Patras, Greece)

Regional Editor:

H. Onishi (Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan)
E.B. Souto (Fernando Pessoa University, Porto, Portugal)

Editorial Advisory Board:

C.H. Ahn (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
J. Aylott (The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
C. Berry (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)
H. Boukari (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
T. Burnouf (Human Plasma Product Service, Lille, France)
N. Calander (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
H. Cölfen (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany)
T.M. De Hosson (University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
G. Dieckmann (The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, TX, USA)
D.F. Emerich (LCT BioPharma, Cranston, RI, USA)
J.-Y. Fang (Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan)
X.S. Fang (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
L. Feo (University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy)
W. Fritzsche (Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany)
E. Gazit (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
J.L. Gong (Tianjin University, Tianjin, China)
G.F. Goya (Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain)
R. Gref (Université Paris Sud, Chatenay Malabry, France)
A. Hirabayashi (Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan)
S. Hoeppener (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
D. Hui (University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA)
I. Iavicoli (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy)
A. Ikai (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan)
L. Jia (National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, MD, USA)
Q. Jiang (Jilin University, Changchun, China)
I. Karafyllidis (Democritus Univ. Thrace, Xanthi, Greece)
K. Kataoka (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
K. Kneipp (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
J. Kreuter (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt, Germany)
S.C. Lee (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA)
I. Levy (Intel Research, Jerusalem, Israel)
G. Li (Shanghai University, Shanghai, China)
Y. Li (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan)
X.J. Liang (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Beijing, China)
S. Liao (South China University of Technology, Guanzghou, China)
C.M. Lieber (Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA)
K.M. Liew (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
G.-R. Lin (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
J.F. Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)
Y. Lin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA)
D. Luo (Cornell University, New York, NY, USA)
S. Lyuksyutov (The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA)
A.M. Markwitz (National Isotope Centre, Lower Hutt, New Zealand)
C.R. Martin (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
P. Midgley (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
P.-A.M. Monnard (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
A. Omri (Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada)
L.K. Ping (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
O. Salata (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
E. Sancaktar (The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA)
M. Sato (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
S. Scheuring (Inst. Curie, Paris, France)
G. Schneider (Berlin Elektronespeicherring-Gesellschaft fur Synchrotronstrahlung, Berlin, Germany)
N. Seeman (New York University, New York, NY, USA)
P.A. Serena (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Madrid, España)
G.A. Silva (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
R.Q. Snurr (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
F. Te-Hua (National Formosa University, Yunlin, Taiwan)
V. Thomas (University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, USA)
Y.K. Vohra (University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA)
J. Wang (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
T.J. Webster (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
J. West (University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA)
C. Yang ( Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
A. Yap (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
S.-H. Yu (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R. China)
Y. Zhou (Nanjing University, Hankou, China)
Ying-Jie Zhu (Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)