Robert Engel holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University. A professor at Queens College, his lab work focuses on the synthesis of organic salts for applications to physical and biological systems. JaimeLee Iolani Rizzo earned her Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. A professor at Pace University, her research addresses the synthesis of antimicrobial surfaces, an area in which she holds numerous patents. A. David Baker is an emeritus professor of organic chemistry at Queens College. Having published extensively on ultraviolet and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and in heterocyclic chemistry, he is currently working on the use of density functional theory and other computational methods to probe the structures and stabilities of nanostructures.