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Editorial board
Senior Editors
- S.Z.D. Cheng
- A.H.E. Müller
Honorary Editors
Asian Editors
- C.C. Han
Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China 518060 - K. Ito
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-no-ha 5-1-5-603, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan - H. Jinnai
Inst. of Multidisciplinary Res. for Adv. Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, 980-0812, Sendai-Shi, Japan - T. Yokozawa
Department of Material and Life Chemistry, Kanagawa University, Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan
Associate Editors for China
- Y. Chen
Dept. of Polymer & Material Sciences, Sch. of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 135, Xingang Xi Road, 510275, Guangzhou, China - E.-Q. Chen
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, 100871, Beijing, China
Editors for the Americas
- S.Z.D. Cheng
Goodyear Polymer Center, University of Akron, 170 University Ave, Akron, Ohio, OH 44325-0044, USA - S.R. Turner
Dept. of Chemistry, Macromolecules & Interfaces Institute, Virginia Tech, 2109 Hahn Hall South--MC 0344, Blacksburg, Virginia, VA 24061, USA
European & Rest of the World Editors
- M. Ballauff
Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Glienicker Straße 100, 14109, Berlin, Germany - G. Krausch
Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Forum Universitatis 2, 55128, Mainz, Germany - A.H.E. Mueller
Inst. für Organische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, D-55099, Mainz, Germany
Editorial Advisory Board
- L.-J. An
Changchung Institute of Applied Chemistry, Changchun, China - W. Binder
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany - A. Böker
DWI an der RWTH Aachen e.V., Aachen, Germany - T. Bunning
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, AFB, Dayton, Ohio, USA - N.R. Cameron
Durham University, Durham, England, UK - B. Charleux
Saint-Gobain Innovative Materials R&D, La Défense Cedex, France - R.J. Composto
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - C. De Rosa
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy - B.D. Freeman
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA - Q. Fu
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China - J. Genzer
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA - M. Geoghegan
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK - E. Giannelis
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA - J.P Gong
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan - A. Greiner
Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany - R.H. Grubbs
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA - T. Hashimoto
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan - B.S. Hsiao
State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, USA - C.-S. Hsu
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan - S. Ito
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan - E-T. Kang
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore - F. Khoury
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA - K. Landfester
Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany - L. Leibler
École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), Paris, France - C. Li
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Z. Li
Peking University, Beijing, China - D-J. Liaw
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC - K. Loos
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands - B.A. Lotz
Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France - C. Macosko
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - J.E. Mark
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - T. Masuda
Shanghai University, Shanghai, China - K. Matyjaszewski
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - J.E. McGrath
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA - M. Muthukumar
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA - D. R. Paul
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA - P. Pötschke
Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany - R.E. Prud'homme
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada - J. Pyun
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA - R.A. Register
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA - G.C. Rutledge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - A.J. Ryan
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK - R. Shenhar
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel - M. Shibayama
University of Tokyo, Naka-Gun, Japan - M.S. Silverstein
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel - S.L. Simon
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA - M. Stenzel
UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia - G. Strobl
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany - B.S. Sumerlin
University of Florida, Gainesville, District of Columbia, USA - A. Takahara
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan - B.-Z. Tang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China - C. Tang
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA - K. Tashiro
Toyota Technological Institute, Tempaku, Nagoya, Japan - E. L. Thomas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - T. Thurn- Albrecht
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany - V. Tsukruk
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - M. Ulbricht
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany - F. Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China - Z.Y. Wang
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - K.I. Winey
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - C. Wu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China - Y. Yagci
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey - Y. Yang
Fudan University, Shanghai, China - X. Zhang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Q.-F. Zhou
Peking University, Beijing, China - L. Zhu
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA