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The purpose of this article is to review some of the current endeavors in this developing field. To maintain brevity, the focus is on recent studies carried out in our own laboratory and in conjunction with Professor M.T. Bowers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, with emphasis on the use of kinetic energy release distributions and infrared laser multiphoton excitation to probe potential energy surfaces for the reactions of atomic metal ions with alkenes and alkanes. 

Matthew V. Tirrell (Co-Chair) is Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, where he served as Director of its Biomedical Engineering Institute. He received a B.S. from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts. His interests are in transport and interfacial properties of polymers, with particular emphasis on molecular-scale mechanical measurements, bioadhesion, and new materials development. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. 

Financial support by the National Science Foundation and the State of Connecticut under its High Technology program are gratefully acknowledged. This article was written during a sabbatical at the University of California at Santa Barbara under the hospitality of Prof. R. Daniel Little. Joseph Leonetti provided some key references on the drying properties of molecular sieves. 

Haddock, S.H., C.M. McDougall, and J.F. Case. The Bioluminescence Web Page. University of California at Santa Barbara. Available online. URL http //www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/ biolum. Accessed Dec. 17, 2006. 

K.K. Ewert, A. Zidovska, A. Ahmad, N.F. Bouxsein, H.M. Evans, and C.R. Safinya (El) Physics, Materials Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA e-mail safinya mrl.ucsb.edu A. Zidovska... 

After a chance meeting in Tokyo in 1976 with Alan MacDiarmid, then working in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, Shirakawa left TIT for a three-year residency with MacDiarmid at Pennsylvania. In 1979, he returned to Japan, where he assumed the post of associate professor in the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Tsukuba. Three years later he was promoted to full professor, a post he held until his retirement in March 2000. Only seven months later, he was chosen one of the three winners (along with MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger of the University of California at Santa Barbara) of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery of conductive polymers. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Shirakawa has been honored with the 1983 award of the Society of Polymer Science of Japan and the Japanese government s Order of Culture in 2000. 

Walter Kohn, bom in Vienna 1923. B.A., B.Sc., University of Toronto, 1945, 1946. Ph.D. Harvard, 1948. Instructor in physics, Harvard, 1948-1950. Assistant, Associate, full Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, 1950-1960. Professor of physics, University of California at San Diego, 1960-1979 University of California at Santa Barbara 1979-present. Nobel Prize in chemistry 1998. 

Sidney Yip, Modeling of Industrial Materials Connecting Atomistic and Continuum Scales. Proceedings of the Workshop held at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, January 7-11, 1996, in J. Comput.-Aided Mater. Design, 3 (1-3), ESCOM, Leiden, 1996. 

Tony Cheetham was a member of the Chemistry faculty at Oxford, 1974-1991, and has been at the University of California at Santa Barbara since 1991. He is Professor in both the Materials and Chemistry Departments at UCSB, and since 2004 has been the Director of the new International Center for Materials Research (ICMR). Cheetham s research interests lie in the area of functional inorganic materials and currently include hybrid framework materials, phosphors for solid state lighting, and inorganic nanoparticles. 

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Kohn, Walter (1923- ). Awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998 jointly with John A. Pople for their pioneering contributions in developing methods that can be used for theoretical studies of the properties of molecules and the chemical processes in which they are involved. He performs his research at the University of California at Santa Barbara. 

As his career proceeded, Dr. Baker had become more and more interested in an academic, research and teaching position. His first exposure to academia had come when he was made Head of the night-school Chemistry Department of Teaneck College, Teaneck, New Jersey, during the course of his employment at Lederle. When he left Stanford Research Institute in 1961, he made the complete transition to a university situation on being appointed Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo. After five years at Buffalo, he returned to California as Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he spent his remaining years. 

Dr. Donald Leo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Raymond A. Mackay, Director, Research Technology, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center Dr. Jennifer S. Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dr. Christophe L. McCray, Program Science Developer, Office of Naval Research Prof. Martin Moskovits, Dean, Math, Life Physical Science, College of Letters Science, University of California at Santa Barbara Dr. James Murday, Director of Physical Sciences, Office of Research Advancement, University of Southern California... 

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