Ana Maria Diez-Pascual graduated in Chemistry in 2001 (awarded Extraordinary Prize) at the Complutense University (Madrid, Spain), where she completed her Ph.D. (2002–2005) on dynamic and equilibrium properties of fluid interfaces under the supervision of Prof. Rubio. In 2005, she worked at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Germany) with Prof. Miller on the rheological characterization of water-soluble polymers. During 2006–2008, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Physical Chemistry Institute of the RWTH-Aachen University (Germany), where she worked on the layer-by-layer assembly of polyelectrolyte multilayers onto thermoresponsive microgels. Then, she moved to the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (Madrid, Spain) and participated in a Canada–Spain joint project to develop carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced epoxy and polyetheretherketone composites for transport applications. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Alcala University (Madrid, Spain) focused on the development of polymer/nanofiller systems for biomedical applications. She has published over 100 SCI articles (97% in Q1 journals). She has an H-index of 41 and more than 3500 total citations. She has published 21 book chapters, 2 monographies, and edited 3 books, and is the first author of an international patent. She has been invited to impart seminars at prestigious international research centers (i.e., Max Planck in Germany, NRC in Canada, School of Materials in Manchester, U.K.). She was awarded the TR35 2012 prize by the Massachusetts Technological Institute (MIT) for her innovative work in the field of nanotechnology.

Antonio Di Bartolomeo is professor of experimental condensed matter physics at Salerno University, Italy where he teaches semiconductor device physics, electric circuits, and electronics. His present research interests include: optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and 2D materials; van der Waals heterojunctions of layered materials and Schottky heterojunctions; and field-effect transistors, non-volatile memories, solar cells, photodetectors, and field emission devices. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1997 from Salerno University where he held the position of researcher in experimental physics before the appointment as a professor. His scientific career started at CERN (CH) with the collaboration on experiments on neutrino oscillations and heavy ion collisions. He spent several years in the industry as a semiconductor device engineer (ST Microelectronics, Infineon Technologies, and Intel Corporation) and was guest scientist at IHP-Microelectronics (Germany) and Georgetown University (Washington, DC). He has authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, two physics textbooks, and two patents, and has served as an Editorial Board member of several journals including Nanomaterials, by MDPI, Nanotechnology by IOP, and Micro & Nano Letters by IET.

Dr. Guanying Chen is a professor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) since 2013. He also serves as a research faculty at the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB), SUNY Buffalo since 2011. His research interests focus on lanthanide-doped materials, upconversion, nanocrystals and crystals, biophotonics, and nanostructured solar cells. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, etc. He has an H index of 37 and more than 6400 total citations. He received the Top-Notch Young Investigator Award from the Department of the Central Committee of China in 2015, Top 100 National Excellent PhD Dissertation Nomination Award of China in 2011, and the Distinguished Young Investigator Career Award of HIT in 2015. He sits on editorial board for several journals including Scientific Reports (IF=4.3), Nanomaterials (IF=3.6), and Crystal (IF=1.6), and served as guest editor for Theranostics (IF=8.8).

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Paolo Scrimin graduated from the University of Padova (1976) where he is full Professor of Organic Chemistry since 1997. He has been the recipient of the Ciamician (1988) and Mangini (2018) medals (awarded by Italian Chemical Society, Organic Division). His scientific interests are focused on nanosystems, particularly on the possibility to exploit cooperativity and trigger new functions within them. He has coined the term nanozymes to identify nanomaterials endowed with catalytic properties mimicking those of natural enzymes. He has published more than 190 papers in peer-reviewed journal and his H-index is 45. He is one of the six Editors of Nanomaterials.

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Sotirios Baskoutas obtained his Ph.D. from the Physics Department of the University of Patras, Greece. He joined the Materials Science Department of the University of Patras in 2001, where he is currently Professor (Full). Dr. Baskoutas has visited and worked in several Universities and Research Institutes outside Greece, such as the Department of Physics, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (Italy), Department of Physics Fundamental y Experimental, University of Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), Free University of Brussels (Belgium), Research Institute of Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest (Hungary), Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (Canada), Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Munich (Germany), INT Institute for Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe (Germany), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany), Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg (Germany) and Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan (Armenia). His research interests are focused mainly in theoretical and experimental studies in semiconductor nanostructures, with emphasis to their electronic and optical properties. Dr. Baskoutas has authored over 150 research articles in peer reviewed journals in the field of condensed matter physics and materials science with more than 5000 citations. He serves as an editorial board member in several scientific journals and has been a member of 40 International and Greek research projects (in 10 of them as project leader).

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Prof Vijay Kumar Thakur (VKT) is a Professor in the Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Centre at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and also holds an Adjunct Professor position in the Research School of Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu University, China; Visiting Professor at Shiv Nadar University India and Visitor at Cranfield University, UK. He has previously held faculty positions at Cranfield University UK, Washington State University USA, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and LHU–Taiwan. His research activities span the disciplines of Biomaterials Engineering, Polymer Chemistry, Manufacturing, Materials Science and Nanotechnology, as well as all aspects of Advanced and Sustainable Materials. He has published over 170 SCI journal articles, 44 books, 35 Book Chapters and hold one US patent (technology transferred to Industry). He also sits on the editorial board of ~several SCI Journals as Associate Editor/ Editor/ Editorial Advisory Board Member. Recent research work includes but not limited to: -Biorenewable Materials: Natural Fibres/Wood, Bio-resins and Utilisation of Waste (e.g. Agricultural Byproducts/ Biomass) for Practical Uses -Design, Develop and Commercialize Bioproducts, Bioprocesses, and Bioenergy -Sustainable Chemicals, Monomers/Polymers, Design Methodologies, and Manufacturing -Additive Manufacturing (3D/4D printing) of Polymers and Composites -Hydrogels: Synthesis, characterisation and applications in nutrient recovery, control delivery, water purification and biomedical -Membranes: Sustainable membrane materials for applications in water treatment, biomedical and energy storage -Photocatalysts for future applications combining nanotechnology, photonics, energy research, and environmental science -Nanofiber production and multifunctional applications in biomaterials, energy, sensing and smart materials -Nanoelectronic materials: Piezoelectric, Dielectric and Electrochromic materials for sensing, energy harvesting, and storage.

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Ullrich Scherf received his PhD in 1988 from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. After receiving his habilitation from Mainz University in 1996, he was appointed as Professor of Polymer Chemistry at Potsdam University (2000-02) and, since 2002, as Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at Wuppertal University. He currently heads the Macromolecular Chemistry Group, current H index 88 (WoS). In 2006 U. Scherf was one of founders of the Institute for Polymer Technology (IfP), an interdisciplinary research cluster with partners from Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Printing Technology. From 2011-2016 he was acting as director of the IfP research cluster.

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Julián María González Estévez was graduated in Physics in1977 from the Navarra University. In 1987 received the PhD degree from the University of the Basque Country. Present employment: Professor (full time) of Department of Materials Physics of the University of the Basque Country in the Department of Materials Physics of the Faculty of Chemistry in San Sebastian (Spain). Current fields of interest: novel magnetic materials, amorphous, nanocrystalline and nanogranular ferromagnetic alloys and compounds, metamaterials at microwave range. Spintronics. Magnetotransport (Magnetoresistance, Magnetoimpedance, Ferromagnetic Resonance, Magnetocaloric). New magnetic sensors. He has published more than 450 referred papers (about 250 inside Q1) in international journals with more than 8000 cites (from Google) on magnetic materials studies. He has edited 2 books, 10 conference proceedings. He has given a number of 45 invited talks in international conferences on Magnetism, invited lectures in Labs and Departments of University of high prestigious, wrote 1 book, 12 chapters for books and encyclopedia (Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Sensors, Handbook of Advanced Magnetic Materials, Amorphous Materials: Research, Technology and Applications), published 4 patents, etc. He has the supervisor of 15 doctoral thesis (10 of international mention, 3 have obtained the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado of the University of the Basque Country). He has also had the responsibility to be the supervisor of 12 students of PhD (actually 3 more in progress) and 5 students of master in Nanoscience. Finally, he has had the enormous honour to be the godfather of Doctor Honoris Causa of Prof. Albert Fert (laureated with the Nobel Prize in Physics 2007) by the University of the Basque Country.

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Horacio Cabral is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in Materials Engineering from The University of Tokyo, in 2007. Dr. Cabral was an Assistant Professor at the Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo until 2010, when he joined the Department of Bioengineering of The University of Tokyo as a Lecturer. In 2014, he was promoted to his current position. Dr. Cabral currently serves on the editorial board of Nanomaterials, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, and the advisory board of Macromolecular Bioscience. Dr. Cabral’s major research interests relate to the development of nanomedicines for diagnosis and therapy, particularly systems directed to intractable cancers. His work has provided basis for several nanomedicines aimed for tumor-targeted therapy and imaging, showing that the design parameters of nanomedicines greatly influence their activity, and some of these formulations have proceeded into clinical human studies, showing improved survival and reduced side effects.

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Mikhael BECHELANY (born in March 1979) obtained his PhD in Materials Chemistry from the University of Lyon (France) in 2006. His PhD work was devoted to the synthesis and characterization of silicon and boron based 1D nanostructures (nanotubes, nanowires and nanocables). Then, he worked as a post-doc at EMPA (Switzerland). His research included the fabrication of nanomaterials (nanoparticles and nanowires), their organization and their nanomanipulation for applications in different field such as photovoltaic, robotic, chemical and bio-sensing. In 2010, he became a Scientist at CNRS. His current research interest in the European Institute of Membranes (UMR CNRS 5635) in Montpellier (France) focuses on novel synthesis methods for metals and ceramics nanomaterials like Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), electrodeposition, electrospinning and/or on the nanostructuring using natural lithography (nanospheres and/or membranes). His research efforts include the design of nanostructured membranes for health, environment and renewable energy. He is the author and co-author of more than 215 publications, 13 book chapters and 6 patents (h-index = 40). He is also the co-founder of 3 Startups.

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Antonio Di Bartolomeo is professor of experimental condensed matter physics at Salerno University, Italy where he teaches semiconductor device physics, electric circuits, and electronics. His present research interests include: optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and 2D materials; van der Waals heterojunctions of layered materials and Schottky heterojunctions; and field-effect transistors, non-volatile memories, solar cells, photodetectors, and field emission devices. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1997 from Salerno University where he held the position of researcher in experimental physics before the appointment as a professor. His scientific career started at CERN (CH) with the collaboration on experiments on neutrino oscillations and heavy ion collisions. He spent several years in the industry as a semiconductor device engineer (ST Microelectronics, Infineon Technologies, and Intel Corporation) and was guest scientist at IHP-Microelectronics (Germany) and Georgetown University (Washington, DC). He has authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, two physics textbooks, and two patents, and has served as an Editorial Board member of several journals including Nanomaterials, by MDPI, Nanotechnology by IOP, and Micro & Nano Letters by IET.

Giuseppe Lazzara (born 1979) is associate professor at the Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Palermo, Italy. He received his PhD degree, University of Palermo, Italy, in 2007. He was Postdoc at the Chemistry Department, Lund University (Sweden) in 2009-2010. Lazzara became "Professor" at University of Palermo in 2015. His research activities focus on nanoparticles and polymer/nanoparticle interactions. He is involved in projects on halloysite clay nanotubes for drug delivery, conservation of cultural heritage, bioplastics and remediation technologies. Lazzara has more than 160 publications in ISI journals with more than 4400 total citations.

Dr. Andres Castellanos-Gomez is a Tenured Scientist in the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC). He explores novel 2D materials and studies their mechanical, electrical and optical properties with special interest on the application of these materials in nanomechanical and optoelectronic devices. He is author of more than 140 articles in international peer review journals and 6 book chapters. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2017 and has been included in the Highly Cited Researchers 2018 and 2019 lists of Clarivate/WOS and selected as one of the Top Ten Spanish Talents of 2017 by the MIT Technology Reviews. He has been also recognized with the Young Researcher Award (experimental physics) of the Royal Physical Society of Spain (2016).

Dr. Rabah Boukherroub received a PhD in chemistry from the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. He is currently a CNRS research director and a group leader at the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), University of Lille, France. He is Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. He is also a guest Professor, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China. His research interests are in the area of functional materials, surface chemistry, and photophysics of semiconductor/metal nanostructures with emphasis on biosensors, photocatalysis, and nanomedicine. He is a co-author of 580+ research publications and wrote 38 book chapters in subjects related to nanotechnology, materials chemistry, and biosensors. He has 12 patents or patents pending.

Jiye (James) Fang received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from National University of Singapore in 1999. He was a Postdoctoral Associate and subsequently Research Specialist from 1999 to 2002 at Advanced Materials Research Institute. He joined the Chemistry Department at University of New Orleans as an Assistant Professor in 2002, and then moved to State University of New York at Binghamton in 2016. He was an NSF CAREER award recipient. He is now the Professor of Chemistry and MSE at Binghamton. His current research interests are synthesis of shape-controlled nanocrystals, self-assembly and superstructure, pressure-induced phase transition, lattice strain study on noble metal-based nanocrystals, advanced catalysts for fuel cell application in acidic and alkaline media.