Editor-in-Chief:

Eduardo Ruiz- Hitzky
Department of New Architectures in Materials Chemistry
Materials Science Institute of Madrid
Madrid
Spain

Co-Editor in Chief:

Pilar Aranda
Department of New Architectures in Materials Chemistry
Materials Science Institute of Madrid
Madrid
Spain



Regional Editor:

Osldo L. Alves
Laboratory of Solid State Chemistry (LQES)
UNICAMP
Campinas
Brazil


M. Bousmina
President of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez
Chancellor of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology
Rabat-Morocco

Guest Editor:

Layered Double Hydroxide-type Clay Platelets entering the "Nano-world": from oriented Syntheses and Processes to topical Challenges
Pr. Fabrice LEROUX (France)

Progress in Nanofluids Research and Patents In the Journal
Haisheng Chen (China)




Editorial Advisory Board:

A. Agarwal (Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA)
V.S. Aigbodion (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria)
P. Alexandridis (State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA)
P.E. Arce (TTU, Cookeville, TN, USA)
M.R. Baklanov (IMEC, Leuven, Belgium)
C. Balázsi (Research Institute For Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest, Hungary)

T.K.Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
M.I. Baraton (University of Limoges, Limoges, France)
A.R. Barron (Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)
S. Barth (Fraunhofer IME, Aachen, Germany)
R. Bawa (Bawa Biotech LLC, Ashburn, VA, USA and RPI, Troy, NY, USA)
S.H. Bo (Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China)
J.H. Borrell (CBEN, Barcelona, Spain)
C. Brumlik (Nanobiz LLC, Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA)
T. Burnouf (Human Plasma Product Services, Lille, France)
E. Carrilho (University of São Paulo, São Carlo, SP, Brazil)
V-M. Castaño-Meneses (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
A. Cavalcanti (CAN, Melbourne, Australia)
H.T. Chang (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
W.B. Choi (Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA)
B. Chu (State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
F. Ding (Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)
Y. Ding (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
T. Djenizian (Laboratoire MADIREL, Cedex, France)
A.B. Djurisic (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
D.F. Emerich (LCT BioPharma Inc., Providence, RI, USA)
C. Fernández (Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
A. Freundlich (University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA)
S. Fukuzumi (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
M. Goldschmidt (UTHSC-H-Medical School, Houston, TX, USA)
E.M. Gomez ( Research Center on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain )
P.I. Gouma (State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
G. Gruner (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
M. Henini (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
M.C. Hersam (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
A. Holder (The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA)
C.-W. Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
M.Z. Hu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
C.W. Huck (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)
G.W. Jang (Material and Chemical Research Laboratories, ITRI, Taiwan)
G.B. Jiang (RCEES, Beijing, China)
Q. Jiang (Jilin University, Changchun, China)
D. Jiyan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
K.K. Kar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
I. Karafyllidi (Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece)
N. Karkare (York Hospital, Pennsylvania, USA)
V. Kasicka (Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic)
B.I. Kharisov (Ciudad Universitaria UANL, Nuevo Leon, Mexico)
M.J. Kim (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA)
N.A. Kotov (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
B-K. Ku (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
M.J. Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India)
T.H. Labean (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
S.P. Lau (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
B.E. Layton (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
G. Li (Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei, China)
C.M. Lieber (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
J. Limtrakul (Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand)
B.C. Lin (Chinese Academy of Science, Dalian, China)
Y. Lin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA)
B. Liu (Tianjin University, Tianjin, China)
C.P. Liu (National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)
I. Lo (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
E. Mcglynn (Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland)
L. Merhari (CERAMEC, Limoges, France)
C. Montemagno (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
S.Y. Myong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Japan)
S. Nazarpour (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
A. Pal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
G.F. Peng (Beijing JiaoTong University, Beijing, China)
C.C. Perry (Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK)
S.N. Piramanayagam (Data Storage Institute, Singapore)
N. Pugno (National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Frascati, Italy)
T. Qiu (Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
M.A. Raggi (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
A. Ramanavicius (Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania)
W.M. Razeghi (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
Z. Ren (Boston College,Chestnut Hill, MA, USA)
A.P.-G. Robinson (University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK)
G. Rytwo (Tel Hai Academic College, Israel)
P. Serena (Materials Science Institute of Madrid, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
A. Simonian (Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA)
S.K. Srivastava (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
X.W. Sun (Nanyang University of Technology, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore)
W. Tan (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)
R. Tenne (Center for Nanoscale Science, Rehovot, Israel)
A. Vazquez (INTEMA-Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina)
D. Wang (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany)
Z.L. Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA)
T.J. Webster (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
M. Wei (Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia)
A.D. Wissner-Gross (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
R. Wu (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
H. Xu (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
K. Yamamoto (Research Institute of International Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan)
A. Yu (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
S.F. Yu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
A. Zemva (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
L. Zhang (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
Y. Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Y.J. Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)