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height:22.5pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>MANA Independent Scientist</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1;height:27.0pt'> <td style='padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;height:27.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Name:<span class=style61> </span><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Dr. Lionel VAYSSIERES</span></strong></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2;height:27.0pt'> <td style='padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;height:27.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Institute obtained PhD:<strong><span style='font-family: Arial'> Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France</span></strong></span><span lang=FR style='mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:3;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:24.0pt'> <td style='padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;height:24.0pt'> <p><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language: FR'>&nbsp;</span><span class=style61><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Research Interests </span></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family: Arial'>or Research Plan:</span></strong><br> <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Chemistry and Physics of quantum-confined Metal Oxide Nanostructures from aqueous solutions <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <div align=center> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=757 style='width:567.65pt;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td style='padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Biographical Notes</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"'> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"MS PGothic"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Born in 1968, Lionel obtained a MSc. in Physical Chemistry in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry in November 1995 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in Paris, France for his research work on <em><span style='font-family:Arial; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>the</span></em><em><span style='font-family:Arial'> Interfacial and thermodynamic growth control of metal oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solutions </span></em>with <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Prof. Jacques Livage </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>at the CNRS Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condens</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>é</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>e</span></strong>. Thereafter, he joined <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Uppsala University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place> as a postdoctoral researcher for the Swedish Materials Consortium on Clusters and Ultrafine Particles to extend his concepts and develop <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>purpose-built metal oxide nanomaterials </span></em>for photoelectrochemical applications with <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Prof. Sten-Eric Lindquist </span></strong>as well as probing their electronic structure by x-ray emission and absorption spectroscopies at synchrotron radiation facilities with <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Profs. Hans Siegbahn </span></strong>and <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Joseph Nordgren</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>He has been invited as a visiting scientist: at the department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA on nanocomposite metallic oxides for biosensors by <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Prof. Adam Heller</span></strong>; at the UNESCO Centre for Macromolecules &amp; Materials and at the department of Biochemistry, at Stellenbosch University, South Africa on bio-nanocomposite materials by <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Profs. Ron Sanderson </span></strong>and <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Pieter Swart</span></strong>; at the Glenn T. Seaborg Center, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA on actinide nanomaterials by <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Dr. David Shuh</span></strong>; at the Texas Materials Institute on metal oxide-based nanomaterials for optical, magnetic, and energy storage and conversion devices by <strong><span style='font-family: Arial'>Profs. Arumugam Manthiram </span></strong>&amp; <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Llewellyn Rabenberg</span></strong>; and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region></st1:place> on metal oxide oriented arrays for photocatalytic devices by <strong><span style='font-family: Arial'>Prof. Michael Graetzel</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family: Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>;</span></strong> at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, by <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Prof. G.Q. Max Lu</span></strong>, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore by <strong><span style='font-family: Arial'>Prof. Xiaowei Sun</span></strong>, and at iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences in Cape Town, South Africa by <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Dr. Malik Maaza </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>on 1D nanodevices</span></strong>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>He has (co-)authored <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>60 SCI publications (h index = 22)</b> which have already generated over <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>4000 citations</b> since the year 2000. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Essential Science Indicators shows</i> citations per paper in <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Materials Science = 161</b>, and in <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>All Fields = 98</b> (July 2011). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>6 ISI highly cited papers (5 as first author) for the last 10 years, single author 2003 paper No.1 in the Top 10 hot papers in Chemistry (Jul-Aug 05)</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>No. 2 in the Top 3 hot papers published in Materials Science (Sep-Dec 05) and No. 3 (May-June 05) </b>in major international journals, refereed proceedings and book series. He has been interviewed by In-cites/ISI as well as by ScienceWatch in 2006 for a single authored 2003 research articles cited now over <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>1100 times</b> which is also the most cited paper in Materials Science for the country of Sweden for the last ten years. Two other first and corresponding author 2001 papers have already been cited over <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>500 times</b>. He has presented <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>260 lectures</b> (24 plenaries and 64 invited) and seminars at universities, governmental and industrial research institutes and international conferences in <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>26 countries</b> as well as acting as chairman, executive program committee, and advisory member at major international conferences and projects worldwide. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>He is a referee for <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry A European Journal, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Chemical Physics,Lab on a Chip, Chemical Communications, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Inorganic Chemistry, ChemPhysChem, Nanotechnology, Langmuir, Crystal Growth &amp; Design, Journal of the Elctrochemical Society, Electrochemical Solid State Letters, Electrochemistry Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Chemical Physics Letters, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Applied Physics, New Journal of Chemistry, Sensors and Actuators, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Journal of Nanoscience &amp; Nanotechnology,</span></em> <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Sensor Letters, Journal of Physics D, Applied Surface Science, Applied Catalysis A, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Comptes Rendus Chimie, Thin Solid Films, </span></em><i>Materials Chemistry &amp; Physics, Composites Engineering B, <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Materials Letters, </span></em>Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Australian Journal of Chemistry, <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Small, Chemistry An Asian Journal, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Surface Science. </span></em></i></span><em><span style='font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>He is a senior research scientist at the <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>International Center for Materials NanoArchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan</b>; a guest scientist at the Chemical Sciences Division and the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA; and a R&amp;D consultant.</span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>He is the founder, organizer and chairman of the 1<sup>st</sup> international symposium dedicated to <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Solar Hydrogen &amp; Nanotechnology,</b> sponsored by the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>International Society for Optical Engineering</i> held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Diego</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State></st1:place> August 14-17, 2006 during SPIE Optics &amp; Photonics meeting. World-renowned scientists presented the latest advances in the field during the 4-day symposium and a 340-page proceeding was published thereafter. The symposium is being held every year since then.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>He co-organized the 1<sup>st</sup> symposium on <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Nanostructured Materials &amp; Nanotechnology: Development and Applications</b> held during the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>31st <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">International</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cocoa</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Beach</st1:PlaceType> conference &amp; exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites</i> organized by the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>American Ceramic Society</i> at the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hilton</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Daytona Beach</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Resort &amp; Ocean</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Florida</st1:State></st1:place>, January 21-26, 2007. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The symposium is being held every year since then. </span><span style='font-size: 10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>He co-organized the symposium dedicated to <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Nanowires &amp; Nanotubes</b> for the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>IEEE International NanoElectronics Conference (INEC) </i>in conjunction with the<i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'> <st1:City w:st="on">Shanghai</st1:City> Nanophotonics &amp; Electronics forum </i>held in <st1:City w:st="on">Shanghai</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> March 24-27, 2008, the <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>2nd International Symposium</span></em> on <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Transparent Conducting Oxides</span></strong> held in <st1:place w:st="on">Crete</st1:place>, October 22-26, 2008. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>This symposium is being held every 2 years since 2006, </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>the 3<sup>rd</sup> International Symposium on <b>Nanostructured Materials &amp; Nanocomposites</b> in Honor of Professor Koichi Niihara (Symposium 7) for the 33<sup>rd</sup> International Conference &amp; Exposition on Advanced Ceramics &amp; Composites, organized by The American Ceramic Society held at the Hilton Hotel, Daytona Beach, Florida January 18-23, 2009</span>; <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family: Arial'>the Symposium on <b>Nanostructured Materials &amp; Systems</b> (Symposium 7) for the 8<sup>th</sup> Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic &amp; Glass Technology held at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, Canada, May 31-June 5, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>He recently co-organized the Symposium on <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Functional Oxide Nanostructures &amp; Heterostructures</b> (Symposium N, Cluster on Nanomaterials, the largest of all Spring MRS meeting symposia ever with 365 abstracts submitted) for the 2010 MRS Spring Meeting held in San Francisco, April 5-9, 2010 and<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>he was </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>the main organizer of the 2011 Spring MRS symposium F entitled <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Renewable Fuels &amp; Nanotechnology</b> held in San Francisco, April 25-29, 2011 and the co-organizer of the Symposium on <b>Nanostructured Materials for Energy Applications</b> <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>(Symposium 2) </span>for the 9<sup>th</sup> International Meeting of Pacific Rim Ceramic Societies, held in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, July 10-14, 2011 as well as for the forthcoming<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> Symposium on Hydrogen, Syngas &amp; C1-Catalysis</b>, Division of Fuel Chemistry, 242<sup>nd</sup> American Chemical Society National Meeting, to be held in Denver, CO, USA, August 28-September 1, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>He is the founder and the Editor-in-chief of a SCI-indexed journal <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>(Impact Factor 2010 = 1.329) </b>dedicated to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the <em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>International Journal of Nanotechnology</span></b></em> (ISSN 1475-7435(Print) and 7141-8151(Online)) published by Inderscience Entreprises Ltd., </span><a href="http://www.inderscience.com/ijnt"><span style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Arial'>http://www.inderscience.com/ijnt</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Int. J. Nanotechnol. </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>has released 24 special issues and 8 regular ones, representing a total of over 400 articles and editorials (mostly invited) and about 6500 pages of in-depth coverage of major topics related to nanotechnology written by professionals from all over the world (37 different countries and counting). The journal has been released at major international conferences in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and is indexed in leading publication databases i.e. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>ANTE</i>, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Chemical Abstracts<sup>®</sup> Services, Compendex<sup>®</sup>, Current Contents<sup>® </sup>(Physical, Chemical &amp; Earth Sciences </i>and<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Engineering, Computing &amp; Technology), Engineered Materials Abstracts, Google"!Scholar, Ingenta Connect, INSPEC<sup>®</sup>, Journal Citation Reports<sup>®</sup>, Materials Science Citation Index<sup>®</sup>, Metadex, Pascal<sup>®</sup>, Science Citation Index"!, SciFinder Scholar<sup>®</sup>, Scopus<sup>®</sup>, Technology and Management (TEMA), </i>the<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Web of Science<sup>®</sup> </i>and shortly in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>PubMed/MEDLINE</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=814 style='width:610.2pt;mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td width=438 style='width:328.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-hansi-font-family: "MS PGothic"'>&nbsp;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2011, Volume 8, 12 issues, </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nos. 1-2, special double issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On Nanopharmaceuticals</b><br> Nos. 3-5, special triple issue: <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On</span></strong> <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nanotechnology in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></span></strong><br> <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Nos. 6-7, regular double issue</span><br> <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Nos. 8-9, special double issue: </span><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On Nanomedicine<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Nos. 10-12, special triple issue: </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Arial'>On Nanotechnology in France III<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></strong></p> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>2010, Volume 7, 12 issues, 1203 pages, 72 articles</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>No. 1, regular issue<br> Nos. 2-3, special double issue: <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On</span></strong> <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nanotechnology &amp; Social Cohesion</span></strong><br> <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Nos. 4-8, special quintuple issue: </span><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On Nanotechnology in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place> II</span></strong><br> <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Nos. 9-12, special quadruple issue: </span><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On Nanotechnology in India<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <div style='margin-left:9.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2009, Volume 6, 12 issues, </span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>1160 pages, 88 articles</span></b><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nos. 1-2, special double issue: <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On</span></strong> <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nanotechnology in Greece</span></strong>;<br> Nos. 3-4, special double issue: <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On</span></strong> <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nanotechnology in New Zealand</span></strong><br> <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Nos. 5-6, special double issue: </span><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On Nanoscience and Technology</span></strong><br> <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Nos. 7-8, special double issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On Nanoelectronics</b></span><br> <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>No. 9, special issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>On Transparent Conducting Oxides</b></span><br> <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Nos. 10-11, special double issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On Nanotechnology in Iran</b></span><br> <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>No. 12, regular issue</span></span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style='margin-left:9.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2008, Volume 5, 12 issues, 1393 pages</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>, <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>69 articles </span></strong></span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>No. 1, special issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>anotoxicity</span></strong></b>;<br> Nos. 2-3, special double issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>anotechnology in Australia</span></strong></b>;<br> Nos. 4-5, special double issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>anosensors</span></strong></b>;<br> Nos. 6-8, special triple issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>anotechnology in France</span></strong></b>;<br> Nos. 9-12, special quadruple issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>anotechnology in Canada</span></strong></b>;</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style='margin-left:9.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2007, Volume 4, 6 issues, 790 pages, 54 articles</span></strong><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nos. 1-2, special double issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family: Arial'>anotechnology in China</span></strong></b>;<br> No. 3, special issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>anomaterials for Security Technologies</span></strong></b>;<br> No. 4, special issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>anotechnology in Singapore</span></strong></b>;<br> No. 5, special issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Australia-Brazil Bio- &amp; Nanotechnology</span></strong></b>;<br> No. 6, regular issue;</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style='margin-left:9.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2006, Volume 3, 4 issues, 592 pages, 35 articles</span></strong><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>No. 1, special issue: <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Progress in Nanomaterials in Ukraine</span></strong>;<br> Nos. 2-3, special double issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>anotechnology in Korea</span></strong></b>;<br> No. 4, regular issue; </span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width=370 style='width:3.85in;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:246.75pt;height:165pt'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image003.png" o:title=""/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=329 height=220 src="index_files/image004.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; text-indent:38.85pt'><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'>Special issue<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                </span>Regular issue<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=810 colspan=2 style='width:607.2pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <div style='margin-left:9.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2005, Volume 2, 4 issues, 477 pages, 27 articles</span></strong><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nos. 1-2, special double issue: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On N<strong><span style='font-family: Arial'>anotechnology in Spain</span></strong></b>, official release at <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Trends in Nanotechnology 2005</span></em>, Oviedo, Spain;<br> No. 3, special issue: <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nano Toolkit</span></strong>, official release at<em><span style='font-family:Arial'> IEEE NanoSingapore 2006</span></em>, Singapore;<br> No. 4, regular issue, official release at<em><span style='font-family:Arial'> MRS Fall meeting 2005</span></em>, Symposium R, Boston, MA, USA;</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style='margin-left:9.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2004, Volume 1, 4 issues, 497 pages, 23 articles</span></strong><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nos. 1-2, inaugural double issue, official release at<em><span style='font-family: Arial'> MRS Fall meeting 2003</span></em>, Boston, MA, USA;<br> No. 3, regular issue, official release at <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>ICCE-11 2004</span></em>, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA;<br> No. 4, regular issue, official release at <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>Nanotech Insight 2005</span></em>, Luxor, Egypt;<br> <br> <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Forthcoming special issues</span></strong>: </span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><em><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Africa</span></em><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language: FR'> (M. Maaza, iThemba LABS; A.C. Beye, Université du Senegal)</span><span lang=FR style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-ansi-language: FR'><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Argentina</span></em><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> (</span></em><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:IT; mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(</span><span lang=FR style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-bidi-font-style: italic'>Ernesto J. Calvo, City University, Buenos Aires&nbsp;; </span><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language: IT;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>C. Balseiro, Bariloche; R. Salvarezza, La Plata)</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><st1:country-region w:st="on"><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Belgium</span></em></st1:country-region><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(S.deFeyter, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Leuven</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><st1:country-region w:st="on"><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Brazil</span></em></st1:country-region><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></em><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(E.Baggio-Saitovitch, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Brazilian</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> for Physics research)</span></em><em><span style='font-family:"MS PGothic"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic"; font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></em></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><em><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:DE'>Denmark </span></em><em><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Arial;mso-ansi-language:DE;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(F.Besenbacher, Aarhus University)</span></em><em><span lang=DE style='font-family: "MS PGothic";mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-ansi-language:DE; font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></em></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Egypt</span></em></st1:country-region></st1:place><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></em><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(M.Abel-Mottaleb, SabryCorp Ltd for Science &amp; Development)</span></em><em><span style='font-family: "MS PGothic";mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic";font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></em></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><st1:country-region w:st="on"><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ireland</span></em></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (W. Ahmed, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Ulster</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'> </span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><st1:country-region w:st="on"><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Italy</span></em></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (E. Traversa, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Rome</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'> <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><em><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:SV'>Finland</span></em><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language: SV'> (A. Ivaska,</span><span lang=SV style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:SV;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> </span><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:SV; mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Å</span><span lang=SV style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:SV'>bo Akademi University</span><span lang=SV style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-ansi-language: SV'>) <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><em><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:SV'>Japan</span></em><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language: SV'> (Y. Tachibana, Osaka University)</span><span lang=SV style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-ansi-language:SV'> <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><em><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES'>Latin America</span></em><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES'> (A. Fernandez, Universidad de Venezuela)</span><span lang=ES style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-ansi-language: ES'> <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><em><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES'>Portugal</span></em><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language: ES'> (L.A. Rocha, Universidade do Minho, J Grasio, Universidade de Aveiro)</span><span lang=ES style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"; mso-ansi-language:ES'> <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><em><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES'>Scotland </span></em><em><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(H. Idriss, Aberdeen University)</span></em><em><span style='font-family: "MS PGothic";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "MS PGothic";font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></em></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><st1:country-region w:st="on"><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sweden</span></em></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (G. Westin, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Uppsala</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'> </span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><em><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES'>Taiwan</span></em><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language: ES'> (Y.-Y. Chen, M. K. Wu, Academia Sinica)</span><span lang=ES style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-ansi-language:ES'> <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><st1:country-region w:st="on"><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Turkey</span></em></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (A. Dericioglu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Middle East</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Technical</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'> <o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Other special issues:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br> <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nanotechnology for gas and oil industry</span></em> (S. Mokhatab, <st1:City w:st="on">Univ.</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">Wyoming</st1:State>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region>)<br> <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><em><span style='font-family:Arial'>NanoFerroics </span></em><em><span style='font-family:Arial;font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(A.Rudiger, INRS, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>)</span></em><em><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Citations</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br> Total citations = <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>1400+</b> according to the web of Science Cited Reference Search, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>h index = 16</b> according to SCOPUS (based on 414 documents) with several articles in the top 1-10% for citations in Materials Science according to the latest Essential Science Indicators percentiles table.</span><span style='mso-hansi-font-family: "MS PGothic"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><strong><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Recent Publications 2004-2009 </span></u></strong><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";color:black'>L.Vayssieres,  Quantum confined visible-light active nanostructures for direct solar hydrogen generation </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>On Solar Hydrogen &amp; Nanotechnology, </i>L.Vayssieres editor (Wiley, <b>2009</b>, 700 pages), Chapter 17, pp. 523-558 <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:blue;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <u>cited</u>: 15</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";color:black'>L.Vayssieres</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>,  <b>On the effect of nanoparticle size on water-oxide interfacial chemistry</b> , <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>J.Phys.Chem.C <b>2009, </b>113(12), 4733-4736</i></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:blue;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <u>cited</u>: 6</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>F. Rosei<sup>*</sup>, <b>L.Vayssieres</b><sup>*</sup>, P. F. Mensah<sup>*</sup>,  <b>Materials Science in the developing world: Challenges and perspectives for <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> </b> , <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Adv. Mater.</i> <b>2008</b>, 20(24), 4627-4640</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:blue;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <u>cited</u>: 2</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></b><b><sup><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>*</span></sup></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'> </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>and X. W. Sun,<b> </b> <b>Nanorod-based sensors</b> ,<b> </b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sensor Lett.</i> <b>2008</b>, 6(6), 787-791 </span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:blue;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>cited</span></u><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>: 2</span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>, </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> On aqueous interfacial thermodynamics and the design of metal oxide nanostructures</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Oxide Nanomaterials, </i>edited by J. A. Rodriguez and M. Fernandez-Garcia (John Wiley &amp; Sons, <b>2007</b>, 756 pages), Chapter 2, pp. 49-78</span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres,  An aqueous approach to advanced metal oxide arrays on substrates ,</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Appl. Phys. A</i> <b>2007</b>, 89(1), 1-8 <u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 17 </span></span><sub><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_27" o:spid="_x0000_i1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt; height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image006.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_27"><![endif]></span></sub><sub><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 10-20 %</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres,  On the aqueous stabilisation of crystalline metastable nanostructures , </span></b><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Int. J. Nanotechnol. </span></em><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Arial'>2007</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, 4(6), 750-775</span> <u><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>cited</span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>: 6</span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> (editor), <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Solar Hydrogen and Nanotechnology</i>, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proc. SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering </i><b>2006</b>, Vol. 6340, 336 pages <u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 10</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_28" o:spid="_x0000_i1028" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="ISI" style='width:36.75pt; height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image007.jpg" o:title="ISI"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=49 height=20 src="index_files/image008.jpg" alt=ISI v:shapes="óV_x0020_28"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></sub><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>J. X. Wang, X. W. Sun, Y. Yi, H. Huang, Y. C. Lee, O. K. Tan<b>, </b>and<b> L.Vayssieres,  Hydrothermally grown ZnO nanorod arrays for gas sensing applications , </b></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Nanotechnology</span></i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>2006, </span></b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>17(19)</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, 4995-4998 <u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color: blue'>: 160 </span><sub><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></sub></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 0.1-1 %</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Advanced semiconductor nanostructures</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>C. R. Chimie </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2006</span></strong><em><span style='font-family:Arial'>, 9(5-6), </span></em>691-701<em><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></em><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 20<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof: yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_29" o:spid="_x0000_i1029" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image009.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_29"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 10%</span> <em><span style='font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'> <o:p></o:p></span></em></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>C. Persson, C.L. Dong, <b>L. Vayssieres</b>, A. Augustsson, T, Schmitt, M. Mattesini, R. Ahuja, J. Nordgren, C.L. Chang, A. Ferreira da Silva, J.-H. Guo<b>  x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy of ZnO nanoparticles and highly oriented ZnO microrod arrays , </b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Microelectronics J.</i><b> 2006, </b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>37(8)</i>, 686-689<b> </b><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 19</span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i><b><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><sub><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-no-proof: yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_30" o:spid="_x0000_i1030" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:68.25pt;height:11.25pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image010.emz" o:title=""/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=91 height=15 src="index_files/image011.gif" v:shapes="óV_x0020_30"><![endif]><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_31" o:spid="_x0000_i1031" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:33.75pt; height:12.75pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=45 height=17 src="index_files/image012.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_31"><![endif]></span></sub></b><b><sub><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></sub></b><span style='font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 10%</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On the thermodynamic stability of metal oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solutions</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Int. J. Nanotechnol. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2005</span></strong><em><span style='font-family: Arial'>, 2(4), 411-439<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></em><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 18<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof: yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_32" o:spid="_x0000_i1032" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image013.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_32"><![endif]></span></sub><em><span style='font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></em><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 10 %</span><em><span style='font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> </span></em><em><span style='font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>*, C. Sathe, S. M. Butorin, D. K. Shuh, J. Nordgren, J.-H. Guo*,  <b>1-D quantum confinement effect in </b></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol'>a</span></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3 </sub>ultrafine nanorod arrays</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> , <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Adv. Mater</i>.<b> 2005</b>, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>17(19), 2320-2323<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></i><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 85 </span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_33" o:spid="_x0000_i1033" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image013.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_33"><![endif]></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>top 1-10%<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>* and M. Graetzel,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Highly ordered SnO<sub>2</sub> nanorod-arrays from controlled aqueous growth</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family: Arial'>2004</span></strong><em><span style='font-family:Arial'>, 43(28), </span></em>3666-3670<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 146</span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; color:blue;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_34" o:spid="_x0000_i1034" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt; height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image006.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_34"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>1-10%<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>On the design of advanced metal oxide nanomaterials</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Int. J. Nanotechnol. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2004</span></strong><em><span style='font-family: Arial'>, 1(1-2), </span></em>1-41<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 88 </span></span><sub><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_35" o:spid="_x0000_i1035" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image013.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_35"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10%</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>C. L. Dong, C. Persson, <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong>, A. Augustsson, T, Schmitt, M. Mattesini, R. Ahuja, C. L. Chang and J.-H. Guo  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>The electronic structure of nanostructured ZnO from x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy and the local density approximation</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Phys. Rev. B </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2004</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>70(19)</span></em>, 195325<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 82<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof: yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_36" o:spid="_x0000_i1036" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image013.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_36"><![endif]></span></sub><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10 % <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><strong><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"MS PGothic"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></strong></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><strong><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Selected Publications 1998-2003 (sorted by citations)</span></u></strong></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_37" o:spid="_x0000_i1037" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="sw-head-menu-small-editorials" style='width:69pt;height:9pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image014.png" o:title="sw-head-menu-small-editorials"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=92 height=12 src="index_files/image015.jpg" alt=sw-head-menu-small-editorials v:shapes="óV_x0020_37"><![endif]></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><sub><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></sub></span><sub><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_38" o:spid="_x0000_i1038" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="in-cites-logo-editorials" style='width:44.25pt;height:17.25pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image016.png" o:title="in-cites-logo-editorials"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=59 height=23 src="index_files/image017.jpg" alt=in-cites-logo-editorials v:shapes="óV_x0020_38"><![endif]></span></sub><sub><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></sub><sub><span style='font-size: 9.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_39" o:spid="_x0000_i1039" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="interviews-head-sci-bytes" style='width:56.25pt; height:14.25pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image018.png" o:title="interviews-head-sci-bytes"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=75 height=19 src="index_files/image019.jpg" alt=interviews-head-sci-bytes v:shapes="óV_x0020_39"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_40" o:spid="_x0000_i1040" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Papers" style='width:59.25pt;height:17.25pt; visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image020.png" o:title="Papers"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=79 height=23 src="index_files/image021.gif" alt=Papers v:shapes="óV_x0020_40"><![endif]><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_41" o:spid="_x0000_i1041" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="ISI" style='width:36.75pt; height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image007.jpg" o:title="ISI"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=49 height=20 src="index_files/image022.jpg" alt=ISI v:shapes="óV_x0020_41"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Growth of arrayed nanorods and nanowires of ZnO from aqueous solutions</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Adv. Mater. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2003</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>15(5)</span></em>, 464-466<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 1100<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top &lt;&lt;0.01%</span><sub><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_42" o:spid="_x0000_i1042" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="ISI" style='width:36.75pt; height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image007.jpg" o:title="ISI"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=49 height=20 src="index_files/image008.jpg" alt=ISI v:shapes="óV_x0020_42"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>*, K. Keis, A. Hagfeldt and S.-E. Lindquist,  <strong><span style='font-family: Arial'>Three-dimensional array of highly oriented crystalline ZnO Microtubes</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Chem. Mater. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2001</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>13(12), </span></em>4395-4398<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 503<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 0.01-0.1%</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_43" o:spid="_x0000_i1043" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="ISI" style='width:36.75pt; height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image007.jpg" o:title="ISI"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=49 height=20 src="index_files/image008.jpg" alt=ISI v:shapes="óV_x0020_43"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>*, K. Keis, S.-E.Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Purpose-built anisotropic metal oxide material: 3D highly oriented microrod-array of ZnO</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>J. Phys. Chem. B </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2001</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>105(17), </span></em>3350-3352<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 501</span></span><sub><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 0.1-1 %</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>*, C. Chaneac, E. Tronc, J.P. Jolivet,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Size tailoring of magnetite particles formed by aqueous precipitation: An example of thermodynamic stability of nanometric oxide particles</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>J. Colloid Interface Sci. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>1998</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>205(2), </span></em>205-212 <u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 150 </span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_44" o:spid="_x0000_i1044" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt; height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image006.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_44"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>1%<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_45" o:spid="_x0000_i1045" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="ISI" style='width:36.75pt; height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image007.jpg" o:title="ISI"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=49 height=20 src="index_files/image008.jpg" alt=ISI v:shapes="óV_x0020_45"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>*, N. Beermann, S.-E. Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt,  <strong><span style='font-family: Arial'>Controlled aqueous chemical growth of oriented three-dimensional nanorod Arrays: Application to Iron(III) oxides</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Chem. Mater. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2001</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>13(2), </span></em>233-235<sub><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></sub><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 150<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 0.1-1%</span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>N. Beermann, <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong>, S.-E. Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Photoelectrochemical studies of oriented nanorod thin films of Hematite</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>J.&nbsp;Electrochem. Soc</span></em><em><span style='font-family:Arial;font-style:normal'>.</span></em> <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2000</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>147(7), </span></em>2456-2461 <u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 150<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_46" o:spid="_x0000_i1046" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image013.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_46"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10 %</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>L. Patthey, H. Rensmo, P. Persson,<b> L.Vayssieres</b>, K. Westermark,<b> </b>P. Brühwiler, H. Siegbahn, N. Mårtensson, A. Stashans, S. Lunell,  <b>Adsorption of bi-isonicotinic acid on Rutile TiO<sub>2</sub> (110)</b> , <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>J.</i> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Chem. Phys. </i><b>1999, </b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>110(12), </i>5913-5918<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 116<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_47" o:spid="_x0000_i1047" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image013.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_47"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10%</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>K. Keis, <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong>, S.-E. Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nanostructured ZnO electrodes for photovoltaic applications</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nanostruct. Mater. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>1999</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>12(1-4), </span></em>487-490 <u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 103<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_48" o:spid="_x0000_i1048" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image013.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_48"><![endif]></span></sub><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10 %</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>T. Lindgren,</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>H. Wang, N. Beermann, </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, A. Hagfeldt, S.-E. Lindquist,  </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Aqueous photoelectrochemistry of hematite nanorod-array</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> , <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells </i></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2002</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>71(2)</i>, 231-243<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 100<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_50" o:spid="_x0000_i1049" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt; height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image009.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_50"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10 %</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>*, A. Hagfeldt and S.-E. Lindquist,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Purpose-built metal oxide nanomaterials. The emergence of a new generation of smart materials</span></strong></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Pure Appl. Chem</span></em>. <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2000</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>72(1-2), </span></em>47-52<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 75<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof: yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_49" o:spid="_x0000_i1050" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image009.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_49"><![endif]></span></sub><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10 %</span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>K. Keis,<b> L. Vayssieres, </b>H. Rensmo, S.-E. Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt,<b> </b> <b>Photoelectrochemical properties of nano-to-microstructured ZnO electrodes</b> <b>, </b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>J.&nbsp;Electrochem. Soc</i>.<b> 2001</b>, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>148(2),</i> A149-A155<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 68<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof: yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_51" o:spid="_x0000_i1051" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image009.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_51"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10 %</span><strong><span style='font-family:"MS PGothic";mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"MS PGothic"'> <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>J.-H. Guo, <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>L.Vayssieres</span></strong>, C. Persson, R. Ahuja, B. Johansson and J. Nordgren,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Polarization-dependent soft-xray absorption of highly oriented ZnO microrods</span></strong> <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>J. Phys.: Condens. Matter </span></em><strong><span style='font-family: Arial'>2002</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>14(28), </span></em>6969-6974<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 55<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_52" o:spid="_x0000_i1052" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image009.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_52"><![endif]></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10%</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>*, L. Rabenberg and A. Manthiram,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Aqueous chemical route to ferromagnetic 3D arrays of iron nanorods</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nano Lett. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2002</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>2(12), </span></em>1393-1395<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 55<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_53" o:spid="_x0000_i1053" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image013.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_53"><![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>top 1-10 %</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>L. Vayssieres</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>*, J.-H. Guo and J. Nordgren,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Aqueous chemical growth of ±-Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub></span></strong></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial; mso-hansi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-char-type:symbol; mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol'>-</span></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>±-Cr<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> nanocomposite thin films</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>J. Nanosci</span></em>. <em><span style='font-family: Arial'>Nanotechnol. </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>2001</span></strong>, <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>1(4), </span></em>385-388<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><u><span style='color:blue'>cited</span></u><span style='color:blue'>: 31<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></span><sub><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="óV_x0020_54" o:spid="_x0000_i1054" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="main" style='width:39pt;height:15pt;visibility:visible'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image005.png" o:title="main"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=52 height=20 src="index_files/image009.jpg" alt=main v:shapes="óV_x0020_54"><![endif]></span></sub><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>top 1-10 %</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>T. 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Vayssieres</span></strong>,  <strong><span style='font-family:Arial'>Multiple orientation relationships among nanocrystals of manganese oxides</span></strong> , <em><span style='font-family:Arial'>Microsc. 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