The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester, M139PL
UK
N. Pickett
Nano Co Ltd.
48 Grafton Street
Manchester, M139XX
UK
Y. T. Qian
Structure Research Laboratory and
Department of Chemistry
University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, Anhui 230026
P.R. China
C. N. R. Rao
Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit and
CSIR Centre of Excellence in Chemistry
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research
Jakkur P.O.
Bangalore 560 064
India
S. Ramakrishnan
Department of Inorganic and Physical
Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560012
India
A. K. Raychaudhuri
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore-560012
India
S. Roy
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Bielefeld
Postfach 100131
D-33501 Bielefeld
Germany
S. Sampath
Department of Inorganic and Physical
Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012
India
S. Sapra
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore-560012
India
D. D. Sarma
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit
and Centre for Condensed Matter Theory,
Indian
Institute of Science Bangalore-560012
India
and
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research
Jakkur
Bangalore-560064
India
M. Sastry
Materials Chemistry Division
National Chemical Laboratory
Pune – 411 008
India
J. M. Schmeltzer
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University
560 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2084
USA
R. Seshadri
Materials Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
CA 93106-5050
USA
P. J. Thomas
Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research
Jakkur P.O.
Bangalore 560 064
India
R. Q. Zhang
Center Of Super-Diamond and Advanced
Films (COSDAF) & Department of Physics
and Materials Science
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
China
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