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Bioinspired Materials for Self-Cleaning and Self-HealingLichao Gao Jan Genzer Abraham Marmur Thomas J. McCarthy Gareth H. McKinleymolecular engineering atNorth Carolina StateUniversity (NCSU).He earned his “Diplomaengineer”degree inchemical and materialsengineering from theInstitute of ChemicalTechnology in Prague,Czech Republic, in 1989,and his PhD degree inmaterials science andengineering from theUniversity ofPennsylvania in 1996.Afterward, Genzer spenttwo and a half years as apostdoctoral Fellow atCornell University andthe University ofCalifornia–Santa Barbara.In the fall of 1998, hejoined the faculty ofChemical Engineering atNCSU as an assistantprofessor. In addition tohis appointment atNCSU, Genzer is anadjunct professor at theNorwegian University ofScience and Technologyin Trondheim, Norway.His group at NCSUactively pursues experimentaland computersimulation research tounderstand the behaviorof polymers andoligomers at interfacesand in confined geometries,with particularemphasis on self-assembly,forced assembly, andcombinatorial methods.Genzer is a member ofthe editorial boards ofthe Annual Review ofMaterials Research,Polymer, MacromolecularChemistry & Physics,Macromolecular Theory &Simulations, and Journal ofDispersion Science andTechnology. Also, he is aFellow of the AmericanPhysical Society (APS).Genzer’s honors includethe Camille DreyfusTeacher-Scholar Award,the Sigma Xi researchaward, the NationalScience Foundation(NSF) CAREER award,the John H. DillonAward of the APS, theNSF Award for SpecialCreativity, and NCSU’sOutstanding Teacheraward.Abraham Marmur is aprofessor of chemicalengineering at theTechnion—IsraelInstitute of Technology.He received his DScdegree from the Technionin 1974. Marmur thenspent two years as apostdoctoral researcherat the State University ofNew York at Buffalo.Later, he was a visitingassociate professor atthe University ofWisconsin–Madison anda visiting scientist at theIBM Almaden ResearchCenter. Marmur has beenworking in the field ofinterfacial phenomenafor about 30 years, haspublished extensively inthis field and relatedresearch areas, and hasconsulted for major companies.Marmur also hasparticipated in manyinternational conferencesand has been active inlecturing in universitiesand industrial sites inmany countries. At theTechnion, professorMarmur received awardsfor excellence in researchand teaching. In addition,he was an editor ofReviews in ChemicalEngineering, and was onthe advisory committeesof Journal of Colloid andInterface Science andJournal of Adhesion Scienceand Technology.Thomas J. McCarthycan be reached at theDepartment of PolymerScience and Enginee -ring, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst,MA 01003, USA; tel. 413-577-1512, fax 413-577-1510, and e-mailtmccarthy@polysci.unmass.edu.McCarthy is a facultymember in the PolymerScience and Enginee -ring Department at theUniversity ofMassachusetts Amherst.He received his BSdegree in chemistry fromthe University ofMassachusetts in 1978and his PhD degree inorganic chemistry fromthe MassachusettsInstitute of Technologyin 1982. McCarthy’sresearch has involvedvarious aspects of polymersurface and interfacescience, metal and metaloxide surface chemistry,polymers and supercriticalfluids, and polymersand ionic liquids.Gareth H. McKinleyis the School ofEngineering professorof teaching innovationwithin the Department ofMechanical Engineeringat the MassachusettsInstitution of Technology(MIT). He also is thedirector of the Programin Polymer Science andTechnology at MIT, andhead of the HatsopoulosMicrofluids Laboratory.He received his BAdegree in 1985 and hisMEng degree in 1986, aswell as degrees from theUniversity of Cambridgeand his PhD degree in1991 from the ChemicalEngineering Departmentat MIT. He is a cofounderand member ofthe board of directors ofCambridge PolymerGroup. McKinley’sresearch interests includeextensional rheology ofcomplex fluids, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics,microrheology,field-responsive fluids,super-hydrophobicity,and the development ofnanocomposite materials.Jeffrey S. Moore is theMurchison-MalloryChair in Chemistry at theUniversity of Illinois. Hereceived his BS degree inchemistry in 1984 and hisPhD degree in materialsscience in 1989—bothfrom the University ofIllinois. After postdoctoralstudies at theCalifornia Institute ofTechnology and beforereturning to theUniversity of Illinois in1993, Moore began hisindependent career at theUniversity of Michigan.Moore’s research nowfocuses on molecularself-assembly, macromoleculararchitecture, andself-healing polymers.Michael F. Rubner iscurrently the TDKProfessor of PolymerMaterials Science andEngineering, within theDepartment of MaterialsScience and Engineeringat the MassachusettsInstitution of Technology(MIT), and the director ofMIT’s National ScienceFoundation supportedCenter for MaterialsScience and Engineering.He received his undergraduatedegree in chemistryfrom the Universityof Lowell, summa cumlaude, in 1982. Rubnerearned his PhD degree inpolymer science from theDepartment of MaterialsScience and Engineeringat MIT in 1986. Whilepursuing his undergraduateand graduatedegrees, Rubner alsoworked as a full-timestaff member in GTELaboratories. 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