Journal of Materials Chemistry is delighted to welcome several new additions to its Editorial Board and to its Advisory Board. Jinwoo Cheon, Yonsei University, Korea joins the Editorial Board as does Dongyuan Zhao, Fudan University, who becomes the new Associate Editor for China. Journal of Materials Chemistry would like to thank, the outgoing Associate Editor for China, Daoben Zhu, for his work and support during his time with the journal.

Chunli Bai, ICCAS, Beijing and Bai Yang, Jilin University, China, join the Advisory Board.

Dongyuan Zhao was born in Northeast China. He received a B.S. degree in 1984 and an M.S. degree in 1987, both from Jilin University. After he was awarded a PhD in 1990, also from Jilin University, he accepted a faculty position in the Department of Fine Chemical Engineering at Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology. He was then promoted to Associate Professor in 1992. Between the years of 1992 and 1998 he worked abroad as a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since 1998, he has worked in the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University as a Professor and is now duty-director of its Advanced Materials Laboratory. Currently, he is a visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University. He was selected as a Chinese Academician of Science in 2007, Council Member of the International Zeolite Association in 2004 and Council Member and General Secretary of the International Mesostructured Materials Association in 2002. He has received several national awards, such as the Cheung Kong Professorship in 2000 and the 2nd Grade National Prize of Science in 2004. He has also received several international awards, including the DuPont Professor Award in 2005. In 2008, he was appointed as the Chinese Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry after serving on the journal's Advisory Board for one year. His current research interests include synthesis, structural characterization and applications of ordered porous materials, such as mesoporous materials, zeolites, and coordination polymers.

Jinwoo Cheon  is a chemistry professor, the director of Convergence Nanomaterials National Research Laboratory, and the head of the Nanomaterials Division of the National Nano-Medical National Core Research Center at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He graduated from Yonsei University with a B.S. degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1993. After post-doctoral training at U.C. Berkeley and also at UCLA studying inorganic materials chemistry, he joined the KAIST as an assistant professor. In 2002, he moved to Yonsei University. His current research interest includes the development of functional inorganic nanoparticles and their applications for biomedical and energy related sciences. He is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology and a recipient of Song-Gok Science Award (2007), Yonsei Research Achievement Award (2006), Korean Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry (2004), National Science Prize for Junior Faculty (2002), and Wiley Young Chemist Award (2001).