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Editorial Advisory Panel

Caroline Baillie
Queens University, Canada
Zhenan Bao
Stanford University, USA
Alejandro Lopez Briseno
University of Massachusetts, USA
Chris Ewels
CNRS, France
Peter Goodhew
University of Liverpool, UK

Ulrich Gosele
MPI fur Mikrostrukturphysik, Germany

Alan Heeger
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Suwan Jayasinghe
University College London, UK
Mark Johnson
Naval Research Laboratory, USA

David Kisailus
University of California, USA
Steven Lenhert
Florida State University, USA
Tae Won Noh
Seoul National University, Korea
Aleksandr Noy
University of California, USA
Stephen Pearton
University of Florida, USA
David Seidman
Northwestern University, USA
Helena Van Swygenhoven
Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
George Whitesides
Harvard University, USA
Jackie Yi-Ru Ying
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore