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viii About the Contributors

Wade Adams, Ph.D., is the director of the Richard E. Smalley Institute
for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University. Before heading
the Smalley Institute, Dr. Adams was Chief Scientist of the Materials and
Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Adams was educated at the
US Air Force Academy, Vanderbilt University, and the University of
Massachusetts. For the past 33 years he has conducted research in polymer
physics, concentrating on structure-property relations in high-performance
organic materials. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the
Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Adams retired from the Air Force
Reserve in the rank of colonel in 1998.

Pedro J.J. Alvarez, Ph.D., is the George R. Brown Professor and
Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. He
received a degree in Civil Engineering from McGill University and M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University
of Michigan. He is a diplomate of the American Academy of
Environmental Engineers and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil
Engineers. Honors include being elected president of the Association of
Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (2005–2006), the
cleanup project of the year award from SERDP (2002), and the Button
of the City of Valencia (2000).

Dr. Mélanie Auffan holds a doctoral degree from the University of
Paul Cézanne in Aix-Marseille where she performed research at the
Geoscience and Environment Lab (CEREGE) on the transport and
transformation of manufactured nanoparticles in the environment. Her
work addresses cellular interactions of mineral nanoparticle and the use
of iron nanoparticles for the adsorption of arsenic.

Andrew R. Barron, Ph.D., is the Charles W. Duncan, Jr.–Welch Chair
of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science, and Associate Dean of
Industry Interactions and Technology Transfer at Rice University. Prior
to moving to Rice University in 1995 he spent eight years on the faculty
at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from the Imperial College
of Science and Technology, University of London, and served as a post-
doctoral research associate at the University of Texas. Dr. Barron cur-
rently sits on the editorial boards of three chemistry and materials
science journals, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and is
the 1997 recipient of the Humboldt Senior Service Award.

Jonathan Brant, Ph.D., is a research associate at Duke University in
the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He obtained
a Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the University of Nevada,
Reno, where his research focused on the characterization of interfacial