Michael S. Freund is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manitoba (Canada). He was educated at Florida Atlantic University and gained his PhD at the University of Florida. Professor Freund was Director of the Molecular Materials Center at the Beckman Institute of the California Institute of Technology from 1999—2002 and is the author of over 48?papers (including in Angewandte Chemie, Nature and J. Am. Chem. Soc) and has over 18?patents. Dr. Bhavana A. Deore is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba. She gained her PhD at Pune University (India) in 1998. She was selected for a KOSEF Postdoc. Fellowship IN Korea in 1998 and was a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Post-Doctoral Fellow. Dr. Deore is author of over 25?papers.