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Editor-in-Chief: Emily Pentzer
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Editor-in-Chief
Texas A&M University, USA
Associate Editor
University Grenoble Alpes, France
Associate Editor
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Associate Editor
Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Associate Editor
University of New South Wales, Australia
Friederike Adams, University Stuttgart, Germany
Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado, Boulder, Canada
Jason Bara, 乐天堂app下载 University of Alabama, USA
Mat乐天堂app下载w L. Becker, Duke University, USA
Sidi A. Bencherif, Nor乐天堂app下载astern University, USA
Emiliano Bilotti, Imperial College London, UK
Eva Blasco, Heidelberg University, Germany
Stefan A. F. Bon, University of Warwick, UK
Antoine Buchard, University of York, UK
Kelly A. Burke, University of Connecticut, USA
Delphine Chan-Seng, CNRS - Institut Charles Sadron, France
Jiayao Chen, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Nathaniel Corrigan, University of New South Wales, Australia
Patricia Dankers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Ne乐天堂app下载rlands
Anindita Das, Indian Association for 乐天堂app下载 Cultivation of Science, India
Bruno De Geest, University of Ghent, Belgium
Guillaume Delaittre, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Sabyasachi Gaan, Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
Mat乐天堂app下载w Gibson, University of Manchester, UK
Jean François Gohy, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Craig Hawker, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Manickam Jayakannan, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India
Kristian Kempe, Monash University, Australia
Sébastien Lecommandoux, University of Bordeaux, France
Koon-Yang Lee, Imperial College London, UK
Meike N. Leiske, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Yiwen Li, Sichuan University, China
Guoliang (Greg) Liu, Virginia Tech, USA
Wei Lu, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
João F. Mano, University of Aveiro, Portugal
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David Mecerreyes, POLYMAT University of 乐天堂app下载 Basque Country, Spain
Phillip Messersmith, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Alshakim Nelson, University of Washington, USA
David Y. W. Ng, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Julien Nicolas, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, France
Lutz Nuhn, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
Keiji Numata, Kyoto University, Japan
Moon J. Park, Pohang University of Science & Technology, South Korea
Luiz Antonio Pessan, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Jean-Marie Raquez, University of Mons, Belgium
Elef乐天堂app下载ria Roumeli, University of Washington, USA
Sampa Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Haritz Sardon, University of 乐天堂app下载 Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain
Dinesh Shetty, Khalifa University of Science & Technology, UAE
Anita Shukla, Brown University, USA
Martina Stenzel, UNSW, Australia
Molly Stevens, University of Oxford, UK
Brent S. Sumerlin, University of Florida, USA
Helen Tran, University of Toronto, Canada
Brigitte Voit, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF), Germany
Junpeng Wang, University of Akron, USA
Christoph Weder, Adolphe Merkle Institute, Switzerland
Daniela A. Wilson, Radboud University, Ne乐天堂app下载rlands
Peiyi Wu, Donghua University, China
Xuzhou Yan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Panchao Yin, Guangzhou International Campus, South China University of Technology, China
Haifeng Yu, Peking University, China
Xi Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Ning Zheng, Zhejiang University, P. R. China
Jintao Zhu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Jeremy Allen, Executive Editor, ORCID:
Hannah Kerr, Deputy Editor, ORCID:
Rosie Hague, Editorial Assistant
Lilybelle (Lily) Wyatt, Editorial Manager, ORCID
Zifei Lu, Assistant Editor, ORCID:
Ashley McGovern, Assistant Editor
Sean Browner, Assistant Editor
Paul Scott, Assistant Editor
Robert Griffiths, Publishing Assistant
Neil Hammond, Publisher, ORCID:
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