Editor-in-Chief:

Khurshid Zaman
Bentham Science Publishers

Associate Editors:

Steven L. Suib
Department of Chemistry
The University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, USA


Lianzhou Wang
School of Chemical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia



Regional Editors:

Mohammed S. Aida
Thin Films and Interfaces Laboratory
Faculty of Science, University of Constantine
Constantine, Algeria


Akgun Alsaran
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Faculty
Ataturk University
Erzurum, Turkey


Hristoforou V. Evangelos
School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Athens, Greece


Vladislav V. Kharton
Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering, CICECO
University of Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal


Peter Majewski
School of Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
Mawson Institute
University of South Australia
Mawson Lakes, Australia


Lianwei Wang
Department of Electronic Engineering
School of Information Science and Technology
East China Normal University
Shanghai, China

Editorial Advisory Board:

A. Abdel-Latif (National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt)
A. Abedian (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran)
T. Adachi (Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan)
A.A. Adesina (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
A. Agarwal (Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA)
S. Ahmad (National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India)
T.L. Alford (Flexible Display Center, Tempe, AZ, USA)
J. Ali (Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India)
C. Allen (University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA)
R. Allen (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
E.D. Atanassova (Institute of Solid State Physics, Sofia, Bulgaria)
A.A. Athawale (Pune University, Maharashtra, India)
E. Axinte ("Gh.Asachi" Tehnical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania)
A. Bairi (University of Paris Ouest, Ville D'avray, France)
S.R. Bakshi (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India)
K. Balani (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India)
A. Bandyopadhyay (Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA)
V. Basiuk (University Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico, USA)
R. Bayford (Middlesex Hospital, London, UK)
A. Bezerianos (University of Patras, Patras, Greece)
A.R. Boccaccini (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany)
A. Boroczki (GE Consumer & Industrial Technology, Budapest, Hungary)
A. Burns (Kent State University, Ohio, OH, USA)
A. Çelik (Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey)
Y.C. Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
M. Changej (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea)
L. Chen (Analog Devices Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA)
H. Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China)
A.P. Chiriac ("Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania)
T.V. Chirila (University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia)
Ki. H. Chon (Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA)
S. H. Choi (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA)
P.K. Chu (City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
A. Dahle (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Q. Dai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
T. Deligeorgiev (University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria)
C.P. de Leon (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
A. Domb (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
E. Drioli (University of Calabria, Rende, Italy)
A. Dukhin (Dispersion Technology Inc., Bedford Hills, NY, USA)
S. Earthman (University of California, Irvine, CA, USA)
A.K. Eddine (University of Ouargla, Quargla, Algeria)
A.M. Efstathiou (University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus)
T. Eliades (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Nea Ionia, Greece)
A. Elzatahry (King Saud University, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia)
A. Ennaoui (Institute Heterogeneous Material Systems, Berlin, Germany)
S. Fakirov (The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)
G.F. Fernando (University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham)
M. Ferraris (Polytechnic Institute of Torino, Torino, Italy)
A. Feteira (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
A. Flood (Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand)
K. Friedrich (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
C. Galiotis (University of Patras, Patras, Greece)
C.D. Geddes (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA)
A. Gemeay (Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt)
I.E. Ghiocel (ICMPP- “Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania)
A. Goyal (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
D. Graiver (Michigan State University, Midland, MI, USA)
A. Grueneis (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany)
H. Hadavinia (Kingston University, London, UK)
A.S. Hamdy (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm, Germany)
J. Hargreaves (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)
A. Hashim (Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK)
J. He (Clemson University, SC, USA)
N. He (Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
R.B. Heimann (Ruhr- Universität Bochum , Bochum, Germany)
A.J. Hill (CSIRO, Victoria, Australia)
P.H. Holloway (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
C.H. Hsueh (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA)
D. Hui (University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA)
Y. Ikada (Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan)
H. Ishida (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA)
G. Jabbour (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA)
J.D. Juan (INASMET-Tecnalia, Donostia, Spain)
G.M. Kale (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
K. Kanny (Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa)
C.R. Kao (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
V.M. Karbhari (University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, USA)
H. Kawahara (Osaka Dental University, Osaka, Japan)
M.A. Keane (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK)
A.N. Khlobystov (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
H.J. Kim (National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), Hampton, VA, USA)
J.-K. Kim (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
J.C. Knowles (University College London, London, UK)
G. Kontogeorgis (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark)
A. Kumar (Harcourt Butler Tech Inst, Kanpur, India)
R.J. Lanzafame (Rochester General Hospital Laser Center, New York, NY, USA)
R.M. Leblanc (University of Miami, Florida, FL, USA)
S. Ledakowicz (Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland)
C.M. Lieber (Harvard University, Cambridge, UK)
J. Limtrakul (Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand)
Y. Lin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA)
Y.M. Mai (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
L.A. Majweski (The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
A.F.T Mak (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
D. Mantovani (Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada)
A.A. Mazouzi (LHMA, Boeretang, Belgium)
A.S. Milani (The University of British Columbia, Okanagan, BC, Canada)
P. Milani (Milani University, Milan, Italy)
M. Monthioux (CEMES, Toulouse, France)
A. Mostafa (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Boukhalef Tanger, MAROC)
A.H.I Mourad (United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE)
A. Najafizadeh (Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran)
A.G. Nascimento (Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil)
S. Nazarpour (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
P. Netti (University of Naples, Napoli, Italy)
L. Nicolais (University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy)
L.E. Nita ("Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi , Romania)
A.A. Paiziev (Arifov Institute of Electronics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
V. Pillay (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
S.N. Piramanayagam (Data Storage Institute, Singapore, Singapore)
T. Pizzi (University of Nancy, Nancy, France)
A.A. Rahim (University of Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)
J.F. Rakow (Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, CA, USA)
A. Rao (Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA)
D. Rathna (Naval Materials Research Lab, Chickloli, Thane, India)
A.K. Ray (University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA)
V. Renugopalakrishnan (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA)
D. Reuter (Chemnitz University of Technolog, Chemnitz, Germany)
M. Roberto (Laboratory for Engineering of Neuromuscular System, Torino, Italy)
S. Roy (Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA)
N. Sahiner (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey)
M. Salvo (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)
A.B. Samui (Naval Materials Research Laboratory, Thane, India)
J. Schmidt (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
I.K. Schulte (Technische University Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany)
T.P. Schultz (Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA)
M.S. Scurrell (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
H. Sekine (Tohoku University Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan)
W. Sigmund (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA)
S. Slomkowski (Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Sienkiewicza, Poland)
F. So (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
A. Song (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
A.G. Souza (Federal do Ceará University, Fortaleza, Brasil)
A.S.J. Suiker (Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands)
J. Sunner (Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)
H. Swart (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)
R. Talreja (Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, USA)
J.M.D. Tascon (Instituto Nacional del Carbón, Oviedo, Spain)
R. Tenne (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
D.A. Tomba (INTEMA, Mar del Plata, Argentina)
C. Traino (Azienda Ospedaliera University Pisana, Rome, Italy)
C.A. Ulven (North Dakota State University, ND, USA)
M. Venkatesan (Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
E. Verné (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)
A. Voelkel (Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland)
F.C. Walsh (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
H. Wang (Monash University, Clayton, Australia)
A.M. Wass (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
Q. Wei (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA)
Y. Wu (National University Singapore, Singapore, Singapore)
W. Xie (Jilin University, Jilin, China)
W. Xue (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China)
H. Yan (Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China)
L. Yang (Cheng Shih University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
T.H. Yang (Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Y.G. Yanovsky (Inst. of Appl. Mechanics of Russ. Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russian Federation)
Y.Z. You (University of Technology, Anhui, China)
C.C. Young (National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
A. Yu (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
S. Zhang (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia)
T.S. Zhao (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China)
A. Zhou (University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC, USA)
Y. Zhou (Nanjing University, Nanjing, China)
S. Zinelis (University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
A.I. Zouboulis (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece)