Science and Technology of Polymers and Advanced Materials

Omari Vasilii Mukbaniani, DSc, is Professor and Chair of the Macromolecular Chemistry Department of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He is also the Director of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Georgia. His research interests include polymer chemistry, polymeric materials, and chemistry of organosilicon compounds, as well as methods of precision synthesis to build blocks and the development of graft and comb-type structures.Tamara Tatrishvili, PhD, is Senior Specialist at the Unite of Academic Process Management (Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences) at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University as well as Senior Researcher at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry and Polymeric Materials in Tbilisi, Georgia.Marc J. M. Abadie, DSc, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Montpellier, Institute Charles Gerhardt of Montpelier, Aggregates, Interfaces and Materials Energy (ICGM-AIME, UMR CNRS 5253), France. He was head of the Laboratory of Polymer Science and Advanced Organic Materials - LEMP/MAO. He is currently Michael Fam Visiting Professor at the School of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University NTU, Singapore.