Mechanochemistry: Principles, Methods and Applications

About Jonathan W. SteedTomislav Friscic

Professor Jonathan W. Steed has published ca. 250 papers which have been cited over 5000 times giving him a citations H-factor of 36. He is co-author of two textbooks (Supramolecular Chemistry Wiley 2000 & 2nd ed. 2009 and Core Concepts in Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanochemistry Wiley 2007) and has co-edited the Encyclopaedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (Dekker 2004) Organic Nanostructures (Wiley-VCH 2008) and a six-volume work Supramolecular Chemistry from Molecules to Nanomaterials (in preparation for 2011). He has received numerous awards in research and education including the Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize 2010 the Bob Hay Lectureship (2008) Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Doctoral Supervision (2006) and the Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal (1998). Doctor Tomislav Friscic has co-authored over 70 articles in the areas of solid-state organic and metal-organic chemistry photochemistry pharmaceutical materials science and crystal engineering which were cited well over a 1000 times leading to citations H-factor of 21. Following undergraduate education in Croatia (Zagreb) doctoral degree in the USA (Iowa) and a postdoctoral appointment at the Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science (Cambridge UK) he is currently a Herchel Smith Research Fellow in Materials Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and is also a Fellow of the Sidney Sussex College where he organises popular science seminars on the interaction of humans with the environment.