**About the Editor**

#### **Iole Venditti**

Iole Venditti is Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Science Department of the Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy. She holds an international Ph.D. in Materials Science from Sapienza University of Rome. Her research focuses on micro and nanostructured materials, based on noble metals (gold platinum silver, copper) on polymers and hybrid systems. These materials have found application in optoelectronic devices, in drug delivery and in the detection of environmental pollutants. She has collaborated with many researchers around the world on various research projects on these topics. She is Editor for several high-level international journals, including Nanomaterials, Polymers, Chemosensors. She currently has 4 patents, has collaborated on 2 books, has published more than 100 scientific articles, with more than 3000 citations and has an h-index of 36, according to Scopus.
