Ulrich Schubert, PhD, has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, since 1994. His research interests are centered around application-oriented fundamental research on sol-gel processes and inorganic-organic hybrid materials. Nicola Husing, PhD, was appointed Professor of Materials Chemistry at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria in 2010. Her research interests focus on the liquid phase synthesis of porous materials, inorganic-organic hybrid materials and mesoscopically organized systems, especially with respect to synthesis-structure-property relations.