Editor-in-Chief:

Francisco José Gomes da Silva Editor's Profile

Co-Editor-in-Chief:

Jinyang Xu Co Editor's Profile

Editorial Director:

Yasunori Taga Editorial's Profile

Editorial Board Members:

Iman Bagherpour (National Iranian Gas Company, Fars, Iran)

A.P. Monteiro Baptista (University of Porto, Porto, Portugal)

Bharat Bhushan (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA)

Carl Blais (Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada)

Gianlorenzo Bussetti (Polytechnic of Milano, Milano, Italy)

Pierpaolo Carlone (University of Salerno, Fisciano SA, Italy)

Chen-Kuei Chung (National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)

Ahmad Salar Elahi (Plasma Physics Research Center (PPRC), Science and Research, Tehran, Iran)

Ng Eng-Poh (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)

Qi Hua Fan (South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA)

Abdullah Goktas (Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey)

Kelvii Wei Guo (City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

Farid Harraz (Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute (CMRDI), Cairo, Egypt)

Guoliang Hou (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China)

Cheng-Hsun Hsu (Tatung University, Taipei City, Taiwan)

Jia-Hong Huang (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

E. Ranjith Kumar (Dr.  NGP Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India)

Weizhou Li (Guangxi University, Nanning, China)

Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf (Integrated Mechanical Material Corrosion Consulting (IM2C), Texas, USA; Central Metallurgical R&D Institute, CMRDI, Egypt)

Bahereh Marouf (Urmia University, Urmia, Iran)

Daniel Munteanu (Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania)

Victor Fernando Santos Neto (University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal)

Dnyaneshwar S. Patil (North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India)

Andrea Picone (Polytechnic of Milano, Milan, Italy)

Jean-François Pierson (University of Lorraine, Nancy, France)

Victor Ralchenko (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GPI RAS), Moscow, Russia)

Erwan Rauwel (Tallinnn University of Technology, Tartu, Estonia)

Alexander Vladimirovich Rogachev (Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Gomel, Belarus)

Alexander M. Samoylov  (Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia)

Alan Taylor (Coatings and Nanomaterials: TWI Ltd., Great Abington, UK)

Elena Torskaya (Ishlisky Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

Agnieszka Twardowska (Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland)

Nika Veronovski (Cinkarna Celje, Inc., Celje, Slovenia)

Alina Vladescu (National Institute for Optoelectronics - ReCAST Center, Bucharest, Romania)

Fominski Vyacheslav Yu (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia)

Chao Zhang (Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China)

Faai Zhang (Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, China)

Shihong Zhang (Anhui University of Technology, Ma'anshan, P.R. China)

Zhenyu Zhang (Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China)

Ting-kai Zhao (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China)

Yasunori Taga

Director and Professor of Thin Film Research Centre, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan

Dr. Taga graduated from Nagoya Institute of Technology and joined Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratory in 1970. After taking a PhD degree in Materials Science from Osaka University, he promoted as a director of TCRDL in 1996 and was appointed as an adjunct professor of Tohoku University in Japan and the University of Toronto in Canada from 2000 to 2010. After the retirement of the director, he became an advisor of TCRDL for 2 years and moved to Chubu University as a director and professor of Thin Film Research Centre.

The specialized research field of Prof. Taga is the design of thin films and interface for application in industry. Professor Taga recently invented an epoch-making method of joining of different material at low temperature by gas adsorption without using chemical adhesive, which is now in the process of industrial application. Furthermore, he just developed new multifunctional thin film materials of CeO2-PTFE hybrid system with high ultraviolet light shielding of more than 80% at 380 nm and the ultra-hard surface of 16000N/mm2 ( 3 times higher than that of inorganic glass). As a result, he is currently strongly interested in the design of multifunctional thin films and interfaces with a special interest in industrial applications.

His R & D activity is complemented by over 380 original papers including 2 papers in Science and review articles in International Journals & Conference, and over 12,000 citations by other researchers. Furthermore, he obtained 145 International Patents. Besides, he awarded the International R & D Prize, ASTM Prize, Global 100 Echo-Tech Prize, Fine ceramics Prize, etc.