Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials

Shiro Kobayashi, Distinguished Professor at the R&D Center for Bio-based Materials at the Kyoto Institute of Technology and Emeritus at the Kyoto University is a series editor of Springer's book series Advances in Polymer Science. As an outstanding contributor to research in polymer chemistry Kobayashi has received several honors including the medal with Purple Ribbon from the Emperor of Japan. His current research focuses on new methodologies in polymer synthesis with a special focus on enzymatic polymerization and identifying new polymer materials.  Kobayashi received his Ph.D from Kyoto University and did postdoctoral work with Nobel laureate George Olah. Klaus Müllen is professor and director of the Max-Planck Institute of Polymer Reseasrch in Mainz, Germany. His Ph.D. degree was granted by the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1972 where he undertook research with Professor F. Gerson on twisted pi-systems and EPR spectroscopic properties of the corresponding radical anions. In 1972 he joined the group of Professor J.F.M. Oth at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich where he worked in the field of dynamic NMR spectroscopy and electrochemistry. He received his habilitation from the ETH Zurich in 1977 and was appointed Privatdozent. In 1979 he became a Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Cologne, and accepted an offer of a chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of Mainz in 1983. He received a call to the University of Göttingen in 1988. Klaus Müllen is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Editor for Polymer Bulletin. He received many awards and positions.