Profile

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Abstract

Journal of Materials Chemistry profiles the new members of the Editorial Boards, Mathias Brust and Luis Liz-Marzán.

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Mathias Brust (Materials Editorial Board) was born in 1964 in Hamburg where he graduated as a chemist (Diplom-Chemiker) in 1991. He then moved to the University of Liverpool and obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1995 after working with David Schiffrin on the development of monolayer protected gold clusters and nanostructured gold–dithiol thin films and network materials. This was followed by a seven-month research visit to the University of Buenos Aires and a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin with Allen Bard. He then returned to the University of Liverpool for a further year of postdoctoral research before taking up a five-year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in 1998. He is currently Reader in the Department of Chemistry. His research interests include the synthesis of clusters and colloids, nanostructure self-assembly and, in particular, recent developments at the interface between nanoscale and biological sciences.

Plate1 Mathias Brust

Luis M. Liz-Marzán (International Advisory Editorial Board) is a Professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the University of Vigo in Spain. His research interests include the synthesis of tailored (composite) nanoparticles and nanostructures, with an emphasis on the study of their optical and magnetic properties. He received his BS (1988) and PhD (1992) degrees at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Van't Hoff Laboratory in Utrecht University, The Netherlands (1993–95). He has been co-author of over 70 journal articles and book chapters and has co-edited two books on nanoscale materials, as well as a special issue of MRS Bulletin (Dec. 2001). Further information is available at: http://webs.uvigo.es/coloides/nano.

Plate2 Luis M. Liz-Marzán

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