Dr. Tadao Sugimoto is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. His specialties include physical chemistry of colloid and interfaces, synthetic chemistry of fine particles, and materials chemistry. After finishing his undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Tokyo, he was employed by Clarkson University and Fujifilm. Dr. Sugimoto has previously published books with Elsevier and CRC Press. He has 46 patents on photosensitive materials and 3131 citations.