**About the Editor**

**Nurxat Nuraje** is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Nazarbayev University (NU). He is also the Head of the Advanced Functional Materials and Devices cluster. Before joining NU, he held an Assistant Professor position at Texas Tech University, USA, and was a research scientist at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Dr. Nuraje has published more than 70 journal articles and an RSC book, *Green Photoactive Nanomaterials*, as a primary editor. In 2008, the Materials Research Society (USA) awarded him the "Graduate Student Silver Medal" for his excellence in the Ph.D. thesis. For his outstanding research in nanoscience, he was selected as the winner of the "Joseph Wang Award" by Cognizure in 2015 and named as one of the 2018 RSC emerging investigators by *Journal of Materials Chemistry A*. In 2017, for his excellent performance in teaching, Dr. Nuraje was recognized as the most influential faculty member by the College of Engineering of Texas Tech University. He was awarded the US Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship for the years 2017, 2018, and 2019. He has served as a chair/co-chair for four technical sessions in the AICHE meeting (USA) and as a gran<sup>t</sup> reviewer for US NSF, US DOE, and ACS PRF.
