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Editor’s Biography Ramanathan Nagarajan Dr. Nagarajan is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and is currently a research scientist at the Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center. His research interests span the fundamentals and applications of soft nanoparticles generated by self-assembly of surfactant and block copolymer molecules, multifunctional nanomaterials, computational chemistry, and colloid and polymer science. He has authored approximately 100 publications, which have been cited over 3,000 times with an H index of 30. Nagarajan is the Program Chair of ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry and has served as the Guest Editor of Colloids and Surfaces and Advances in Colloid and Interface Science and as an editorial board member of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science, and Journal of Macromolecular Science Part A. Pure and Applied Chemistry. Nagarajan is co-editor of the ACS Symposium Series books Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Stabilization, Passivation and Functionalization, published in 2008, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense, published in 2009; he is editor of the book Amphiphiles: Molecular Assembly and Applications, published in 2011. Dr. Nagarajan was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2012.
© 2012 American Chemical Society In Nanomaterials for Biomedicine; Nagarajan, R.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2012.
