KONA Powder and Particle Journal
Online ISSN : 2187-5537
Print ISSN : 0288-4534
ISSN-L : 0288-4534
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Editor’s Preface
Sotiris E. Pratsinis
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Editor’s Preface

Sotiris E. Pratsinis,

Chairman of European/African Editorial Board

I am delighted to introduce the issue of KONA Powder & Particle Journal No. 32. As every year, this issue is a fine blend of review and original research articles. Review articles, in particular, highlight the state-of-the-art in critical fields of particle technology by its leading experts. That way the latest advances in such fields are communicated to practitioners in an easy-to-understand fashion that is essential for their advancement.

What distinguishes, however, KONA from other journals is that here largely all these articles have been invited contributions from select research groups across the globe by KONA’s intercontinental editorial boards. For example, in the European Board that I am chairing, the selection of such articles follows a distinct pattern. Throughout the year, our board members identify leading researchers and “hot” particle technology topics, following the international conference scene. Such researchers are singled out and courted while probing their motivation and availability to write an article for KONA visualizing its predominantly industry-based audience and readership, worldwide. Such researchers submit a one page abstract that would be discussed by our entire board in its annual meeting somewhere in Europe hosted by one of our members and generously supported by Hosokawa-Micron and a local university. For example, in January 2014 the European/African contributions of this issue were selected in Granada, Spain with a board visit to the particle technology programs at the University of Granada hosted by Prof. Jose Manuel Valverde from University of Sevilla. In 2015, I have them all in Heraklion, Krete, Greece, my birthplace and childhood island with a visit to University of Crete. In these meetings, the qualifications and abstracts of perspective authors are discussed and formal invitations are extended to those chosen shortly after. Few months later, the full articles arrive to Hosokawa’s office in Augsburg, Germany from where they are distributed for standard peer-reviewing. This process is administered remotely by board members determined at the above board meeting but not involved in the original invitation of that article. That way quality assurance and quality control are guaranteed with successful articles making it in the upcoming KONA issue as this one.

In 2014 with the occasion of the World Congress of Particle Technology in Beijing, we had the rare opportunity for a meeting of all three continental boards of KONA, hosted again by Hosokawa-Mikron. There we committed to intensify the dissemination of our journal through web search machines capitalizing and further advancing it beyond last year’s J-STAGE platform of Japan. This should please both readers and authors of KONA.

In sum, the present issue contains an array of contributions from traditional to novel and most innovative applications of particle technology in both classic and emerging disciplines such as bio and nano with a unique geographical distribution of contributing authors. I sincerely hope that this issue would become another valuable addition to advancing the knowledge and technology bases of particle science and engineering.

Enjoy!

Sotiris E. PratsinisChairman of European/African Editorial BoardNovember 6, 2014
 

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