We sincerely welcome Prof. Zhuge Yan from University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Prof. Zhuge Yan is a Professor in Structural Engineering at UniSA STEM. Yan has lectured in several Australian universities for more than 20 years. She has a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Structural Engineering from Beijing, China, a PhD in Structural Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Her main research interests include green concrete materials, fibre composite structures, and seismic retrofitting of masonry structures. She has published more than 200 SCI technical papers and has been invited as a keynote speaker at several international conferences. Yan has successfully supervised many PhD graduates. She has won several Australian and Queensland government awards and fellowships and attracted funding from Australian Research council and industry. She was the winner of 2018 South Australia Winnovation award in Engineering category. She is the current College of Experts of Australian Research Council (ARC). We appreciate Prof. Zhuge Yan for her participation and support.

Luisa Barbieri graduated in Chemistry in 1990 at the University of Modena (Italy), got her PhD degree in Chemistry in 1994, covered the role of Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari” of UNIMORE and since 1st November 2001 she is Associate Professor (Chemical foundations of technologies, SSD CHIM/07). She is member of the Teaching Body of the Doctorate School Industrial and Territory Engineering "Enzo Ferrari". She has been member of the steering committee of the Division of Environment and Cultural Heritage Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (2013-2015). She is author of more than 190 publications in international and national journals (SCOPUS: 175 documents; 4172 citations; h index=38, August 2022), 2 patents and several lectures in international and national Conferences. Particularly important is her teaching/research activity in the environmental sector: National School on Wastes (Rimini 2004), Summer School of Advanced Studies “Waste recycling and new building materials: innovative technologies from geosciences and engineering” (Ferrara 2006), SAMWARE Strategies, Applications and Methodologies of WAste Recovery (Rimini 2008), National School on Wastes (Taranto 2011 and 2014); chief for the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in the regional environmental laboratory LITCAR/ENVIREN from 2005 to 2010; coorganizer of international and national events (Workshop “Engineering and Circular Economy: the Road to Sustainability, 2021, Spain; Congress "Engineering for the environment and the territory”, 2011-14-17 and International Workshop “Research and Innovation for a Sustainable Waste Management”, 2015, Italy); charter member of University spin-off EcoTecnoMat srl, active from 2011 to 2015.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. José Ignacio Álvarez Galindo from University of Navarra to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Prof. Álvarez is currently working as Senior Lecturer at University of Navarra, Spain. His research focuses on development of self-cleaning and depollutant coatings and binding lime and cement materials with new photocatalysts, design of lime mortars for repairing Cultural Heritage by combination of admixtures and nanos-sized materials, encapsulation of toxic metals in cementitious matrices, etc. Prof. Álvarez has published 70 publications that have been cited over 2695 times with an H-index of 30. We appreciate Prof. Álvarez for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Assoc. Prof. Farhad Aslani from The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Farhad Aslani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering and the Director of the Materials and Structures Innovation Group at UWA. The aim of the group is to develop new structural materials, designs and technologies to maximise the benefit to national strategic development plans and infrastructures. Dr. Farhad Aslani has published 181 refereed journal articles. The outcomes of his research are highly valued and cited by other researchers, he has an h-index of 39, 5443 citations, and i10-index is 127 according to Google Scholar while the citations and h-index are recorded on Scopus are 4384 and 37. We appreciate Assoc. Prof. Farhad Aslani for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Noé Cheung from University of Campinas to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Prof. Cheung is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the State University of Campinas and the coordinator of the Solidification Research Group at the same institution. He has experience in the area of Heat and Mass Transfer, working mainly on the following subjects: numerical simulation, continuous casting, purification by zonal refining, laser surface treatment and mathematical modeling of heat transfer with phase change (remelting and solidification). Prof. Cheung has published 159 publications that have been cited over 2535 times with an H-index of 31. We appreciate Prof. Cheung for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Adarsh Kumar Pandey from Sunway University to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Prof. Pandey is currently working at Research Centre for Nano-Materials and Energy Technology (RCNMET), Sunway University, Malaysia. His research focuses on solar energy and its applications particularly but not limited to PV/T, CPV/T, nano-enhanced phase change materials, DSSCs, self-cleaning glass for PV, and energy and exergy analysis of different renewable energy conversion systems. Prof. Pandey has published more than 139 publications that have been cited over 3065 times with an H-index of 27. We appreciate Prof. Pandey for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Yogendra Kumar Mishra from University of Southern Denmark to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Yogendra Kumar Mishra is Professor MSO in Nanomaterials, Mads Clausen Institute, NanoSYD, University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark. He is an expert in the field of New Materials, Hybrid Materials, Smart Composites, Biomaterials, Energy Materials, and Sensors. He has supervised more than 10 Ph.D. students as well as many M.Sc. and B.Sc. students with more than 12 years of teaching experience in the field of Solid State Physics, Semiconductors, and Nanotechnology. Prof. Mishra has published more than 240 publications that have been cited over 11600 times with H-index of 59. We appreciate Prof. Mishra for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Khandaker M. Anwar Hossain from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Hossain has over 25 years of professional engineering experience as an academic, as a researcher and as a consultant engineer in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, Australasia and North America. Dr. Hossain has conducted extensive research to develop blended cement, concrete and other construction materials for sustainable development with natural and industrial wastes. He has also conducted research (involving experimental, numerical and design-oriented analyses) on novel forms of concrete-filled composite structural elements comprising of beams, columns, and walls with plain or profiled steel sheeting. Dr. Hossain’s recent research has involved laboratory investigations, field experiments, numerical/design-oriented analysis, technology transfer activities as well as training of professionals. We appreciate Prof. Hossain for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Carlo Santulli from University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Prof. Carlo Santulli. He is an expert in the field of composite materials, including in particular the use of natural fibres and the development of materials based on agrowaste. Also, he will aim to contribute on how the materials can be developed with increasingly sustainability. We appreciate Prof. Santulli for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Seetharama C. Deevi of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Seetharama C. Deevi developed advanced materials, formulated the Exo-Melt Process for safe melting of intermetallics, and the Exo-Melt Process won the most prestigious, and coveted R&D 100 Award in 1995. Dr. Deevi directed a multi-million-dollar intermetallics program on alloy design, development, and manufacturing of iron aluminides into sheet form by diligently taking the program from a scientific understanding to commercial production in a matter of just two years. Manufacturing of intermetallic sheets with 4-6% ductility won an R&D 100 Award in 2000.

Dr. Deevi received a Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Science, a Master of Engineering with a specialization in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University. His career has spanned roles across Brown University, University of California, Davis, and Altria Group, Inc. He was a Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and an Academic Visitor at University of Cambridge. He served on the Editorial Boards of International Materials Reviews, Intermetallics, Journal of Materials Research, Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. He was nominated as Chairman of the Board of Editors and has been a Member of the Board of Editors of the Research-Technology Management for over 15 years. He published over 150 archival papers with a Google citation index of 15,416, a h-index of 55 and an i10 index of 138. He received over 50 US patents on the alloy design, processing, and manufacturing of materials. He was elected as a Fellow of ASM International in 1999. He won ASM’s Allen Ray Putnam Service Award in 2001. We appreciate Dr. Deevi for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Kwok Wei Shah from National University of Singapore, Singapore, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. So far, Dr. Shah filed 7 patent applications. Presently, Dr. Shah is preparing a book chapter, 1 paper and 2 patents applications. Dr. Shah is a renowned scholar who specializes in the nanotechnology and nanomaterials for green building applications and energy efficiency, green building, electroluminochromic materials, polymers, textile materials. We appreciate Dr. Shah for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Hossein Hosseinkhani from Matrix, Inc., USA, to lead the journal Recent Progress in Materials as the funding Editor-in-Chief. Professor Hosseinkhani is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in industry and academia. He is highly skilled in Research and Development (R&D), chemistry, materials science, biomaterials, nanotechnology, and transmission electron microscopy. He is strong entrepreneurship professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Polymer Chemistry from Kyoto University, currently, CSO at Matrix, Inc. Professor Hosseinkhani is a renowned scholar who specializes in biomaterials, nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, drug delivery, tissue engineering, biosensors. We appreciate Professor Hossein Hosseinkhani for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Yao Li from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Prof. Li is author or co-author of over 100 papers, 35 patents, and two books in the fields of materials science and engineering and materials processing. He is a renowned scholar who specializes in construction and preparation of advanced functional composite and the control of their optical and thermal properties, ordered structured functional materials and their applications, preparation and analysis of new high-performance polymer nanocomposites. We appreciate Prof. Li for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Sawanta S. Mali from Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Mali is a renowned scholar who specializes in the hydrothermal/solvothermal synthesis of 1D/3D nanomaterials and their application in hybrid and flexible perovskite solar cells and solar fuel. We appreciate Dr. Mali for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Feng Ding from Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Institute for Basic Science and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Ding is a renowned scholar who specializes in the multi-dimensional carbon materials, 2D materials, materials’ growth mechanism, and method development for multiscale modeling. We appreciate Dr. Ding for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Mattias Edén from Stockholm University, Sweden, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Edén is a renowned scholar who specializes in solid state NMR; disordered materials; oxide-based glasses; glass structure; bioactive glasses; biomineralization. We appreciate Dr. Edén for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Jack Luo from University of Bolton, UK, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Prof. Luo is a renowned scholar who specializes in biosensors, microfluidics and lab-on-chip; flexible and transparent electronics; polymer-based microactuators for biomedical applications; nanomaterials and nanodevices; energy harvesting devices and systems. We appreciate Prof. Luo for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Jian Wang from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Wang is a renowned scholar who specializes in improve mechanical properties and irradiation tolerance of materials by tailoring interfaces in solids and multiscale modeling and characterization of deformation twinning in lightweight structural materials. We appreciate Dr. Wang for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Associate Professor Zhi-Gang Chen from University of Southern Queensland, Australia, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Associate Professor Chen is a renowned scholar who specializes in thermoelectric materials and devices; topological insulators; compound semiconductors; functional materials; nanotechnology. We appreciate Associate Professor Chen for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Antonino Recca from University of Catania, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Recca is a renowned scholar who specializes in synthesis and characterization of engineering polymers, characterization of thermosetting mixtures, fibre-reinforced composite materials, antioxidants and flame retardants. He is the author of more than 115 publications on international journals and numerous communications at national and international conferences. He has carried out the activity of referee for the following journals: Polymer, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Polymer Engineering and science, International polymer Processing. We appreciate Dr. Recca for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Aleksey D. Drozdov from Aalborg University, Denmark, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Drozdov is a renowned scholar who specializes in double-network gels with dynamic bonds, glassy polymers, macroporous temperature-sensitive gels with fast response, stimuli-responsive hydrogels, supramolecular elastomers, nanomechanics of 2D graphene-like materials, electromechanical response of Li-ion batteries. We appreciate Dr. Drozdov for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Charles-Olivier Bacri from Centre of Nuclear Science and Matter Science (CSNSM), France, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Bacri is a senior researcher who specializes in physics with accelerators. Experienced in pluridisciplinary research, its mains researches concern ion beam analysis, effect of radiations on matter, and more recently, isotopic separation for medical applications. He is scientific responsible of the SCALP (Synthesis and Characterization using ion Accelerators for Pluridisciplinarity research) platform, consisting on one part of an ion implanter and one tandem coupled with a transmission electron microscope (MET), JANNuS-Orsay, and on the other hand an isotopic separator. We appreciate Dr. Bacri for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Hansang Kwon from Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Kwon is a renowned scholar who specializes in nanomaterials, nanocarbon materials, metals and ceramics matrix composites, functionally graded materials, mechanical, thermal, electrical behavior of materials, powder metallurgy, spark plasma sintering, hot extrusion. We appreciate Dr. Kwon for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Hossein Hosseinkhani from Matrix, Inc., USA, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Hosseinkhani is a renowned scholar who specializes in biomaterials, cancer nanotechnology, drug delivery, stem cells technology. We appreciate Dr. Hosseinkhani for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Dong-Kwon Lim from Korea University, South Korea, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Lim is a renowned scholar who specializes in raman-bassed cell imaging technology, nanoscale materials for photocatalyst. We appreciate Dr. Lim for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Yin Xiao from Queensland University of Technology, Australia, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Prof. Xiao is a professor in Bone and Tissue Engineering at Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He is the Director of Australia-China Centre for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and a group leader of the bone and clinical research program. Prof. Xiao is a renowned scholar who specializes in biomaterials, bone, bone marrow stem cell, dentistry, osteoarthritis, osteoblast, stem cell, tissue engineering. We appreciate Prof. Xiao for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Ho Won Jang from Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Jang is a renowned scholar for nanostructured oxides, 2D materials, and halide perovskites for chemical sensors, water splitting electrodes, nanoelectronics, and optoelectornics. We appreciate Dr. Jang for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Shahzada Ahmad from BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Spain, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Prof. Shahzada Ahmad is an Ikerbasque professor (tenure full professor). He has been also selected as young champions of 2018 by World Economic forum. He is an advocate of renewable energy and passionately works on radically innovation technologies to address societal challenges. Prof. Ahmad is a renowned scholar who specializes in advanced materials development for energy conversion, conservation and storage materials application. We appreciate Prof. Ahmad for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Hongjun Wang from The Innovation University, USA, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Wang is a renowned scholar who specializes in tissue engineering, biomimetic materials design, regenerative medicine, tissue on a chip and nanomedicine. We appreciate Dr. Wang for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Theodore E. Matikas from University of Ioannina, Greece, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Materials. Dr. Matikas is a renowned scholar who specializes in aging structures in aerospace, nuclear, civil, cultural heritage and biomedical engineering applications; development of smart sensing systems and advanced nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) methodologies (based in ultrasonics, acoustic emission, acoustic microscopy, nonlinear acoustics, IR thermography, electrical methods, diffraction techniques, interferometric techniques) for real-time evaluation of damage engineering materials and structures, including metallic alloys, shape memory alloys, coatings, metal and ceramic matrix composites, smart and multi-functional materials, nanocomposites, phononic meta-materials, nano-structured and hybrid materials and cementitious materials. Dr. Matikas is Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece and Director of the Mechanics, NDE and Smart Sensors (MSS-NDE) Laboratory. He worked as a senior research engineer at US Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio leading the entire US Air Force in-house research program in NDE, Professor at the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering at the University of Dayton, Ohio, USA and Director of the Center for Materials Diagnostics, UDRI/US Department of Defence. He received several awards for his research and served as a Principal Investigator in numerous research projects in the US and Europe. He authored over 250 scientific publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, several book-chapters and edited books, and six patents. He served as a member of the Euratom Scientific and Technical Committee, the Advisory Board of the Euratom Supply Agency and is senior advisor to the DG of the International Atomic Energy Agency (United Nations). We appreciate Dr. Matikas for his participation and support.