Profile

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Abstract

Journal of Materials Chemistry profiles the new members of the Editorial Boards, Clément Sanchez, Fred Wudl and Daoben Zhu.

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Clément Sanchez (Materials Editorial Board) is Director of Research at the French Research Council (CNRS) and Director of the “Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée” at the University Pierre and Marie Curie of Paris. He received an engineering degree from l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris in 1978 and a “thèse d'état” (Ph.D.) in physical chemistry from the University of Paris VI in 1981. He did post-doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently performing research at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. He was professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau) 1991–2003. He currently leads a research group of ten scientists and he specialises in the field of chemistry and physical properties of nanostructured porous and non-porous transition metal oxide based gels and porous and non-porous hybrid organic inorganic materials shaped as monoliths, microspheres and films. He received the French IBM award for materials science in 1988 and was a recipient of the Société Chimique de France award for solid state chemistry in 1994. He was the recipient of the Silver Medal of the CNRS for chemistry in 1995 and he also received an award of the French Academy of Sciences for Application of Science to Industry in 2000. He has organised several international meetings associated with the fields of soft chemistry, hybrid materials and related bio-aspects: the First European Meeting on Hybrid Materials (1993); five Materials Research Symposia: Better Ceramics Through Chemistry VI (1994), Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Materials B.T.C. VII (1996), and Hybrid Materials (1998 and 2000, 2004); three EUROMAT 2003 Symposia and one E-MRS 2005. He is also a member of the Materials Research Society and the Société Chimique de France. He is the author of over 250 scientific publications,^1–17 co-editor of 9 books or proceedings related to hybrid materials and more than 20 patents. He has also presented over 60 invited lectures in international meetings.

Plate1 Clément Sanchez

Fred Wudl (International Advisory Editorial Board) is the Dean M. Willard Professor of Chemistry and Materials, Director of the Exotic Materials Institute and Director of the NSF-sponsored Materials Creation and Training Program (MCTP) at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received B.S. (1964) and Ph.D. (1967) degrees from UCLA where his dissertation work was done with Professor Donald J. Cram. After postdoctoral research with R. B. Woodward at Harvard, he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1972 he moved to AT&T Bell Laboratories and ten years later he moved to UCSB, where he served as Professor of Chemistry and Materials and Associate Director of the Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids. In 1997 he moved to UCLA to occupy the Courtaulds Chair of Chemistry (later re-named Dean M. Willard Chair) and become director of the Exotic Materials Institute.

Professor Wudl has received numerous awards including Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, William Rauscher Lecturer in Chemistry Award (Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute), Karcher Lecturer (University of Oklahoma), Peter A. Leermakers Lecturer, 3M Lecturer (University of British Columbia), Stouffer Award (USC), Arthur D. Little Award, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, Wheland Medal, Clapp Lecturer (Brown University), The Giulio Natta Medal, ACS Award for Chemistry of Materials, Bayer Lecturer (Cornell University), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Professor Wudl is most widely known for his work on organic conductors and superconductors. He discovered the electronic conductivity of the precursor to the first organic metal and superconductor. In the recent past he has been interested in electronically conducting polymers, where he discovered the first transparent organic conductor and the first self-doped polymers. Currently he is interested in the optical and electrooptical properties of processable conjugated polymers as well as in the organic chemistry of fullerenes and the design and preparation self-mending polymers.

He is currently the editor of Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals and is an Editorial Board member of Macromolecules and Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science. He has co-authored over 385 scientific papers^18–23 and holds nine US patents.

Plate2 Fred Wudl

Daoben Zhu is a Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include organic conductors and superconductors, chemistry and physics of C₆₀ and C₇₀ as well as carbon nanotubes, organic thin films and organic devices.^24–32 He has also contributed a lot to the development and promotion of research institutions, academic societies and research foundations in China.

As an undergraduate student he entered East-China University of Sciences and Technology in 1960 and graduated in 1965. He finished his graduate study in 1968 from the same university. He worked as a research assistant in the Institute of Chemistry, CAS from 1968. He worked as an associate researcher and professor in the Institute of Chemistry, CAS from 1985 and 1987 respectively. From 1977 to 1979, as a visiting scholar he performed research on TTF-cyclophanes with Professor Heinz A. Staab in the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. He was invited as a visiting scientist to the laboratory of Professor Heinz A. Staab and did research related to donor–acceptor cyclophanes from 1985 to 1986.

Professor Zhu has been the vice-president of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) since 2000. He served as the vice-director of the Institute of Chemistry, CAS from 1988 to 1992, and as director from 1992 to 2000.

Professor Zhu is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a member and vice-president of the Chinese Chemical Society, and a member and vice-president of the Chinese Materials Society. He became a member of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM) on June 2, 2003. He is an editor of Applied Physics A. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of Molecular Physics Reports. He received second-class prizes of the National Natural Sciences of China in 1988 and 2002, respectively.

Plate3 Daoben Zhu

References

1. A. Moores, F. Goettmann, C. Sanchez and P. Le Floch, Chem. Commun., 2004 10.1039/b412553c.
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