Allen J. Bard joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 1958 and has spent his entire career there. He has been the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at UT since 1985. He was also a Baker lecturer at Cornell University in the spring of 1987 and the Robert Burns Woodward visiting professor at Harvard University in 1988. He has worked as mentor and collaborator with 75 PhD students, 17 MS students, 150 postdoctoral associates, and numerous visiting scientists. He has published over 900 peer-reviewed research papers, 75 book chapters and other publications, three books, and has received over 23 patents. From 1982–2001, he served as editor in chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Cynthia G. Zoski is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at New Mexico State University. She earned her PhD from Queen’s University in Canada. Her research interests include electroanalytical chemistry, ultramicroelectrodes, scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM), electrocatalysis, and sensors based on micro- and nanoelectrode arrays. She is the coauthor of Electrochemical Methods: Instructor’s Solution Manual and Electrochemical Methods: Student’s Solution Manual, the editor of the Handbook of Electrochemistry, and the author or coauthor of over 60 papers and book chapters.
I particularly enjoyed reading the third monograph on the modification of electrode surface via the grafting of diazonium salts. This chapter is very complete with over 450 references, and it constitutes a manual on the grafting of electrode surfaces. (...) The mechanisms involved in the grafting processes and the characterisation of the surfaces modified are thoroughly explained. Such a chapter will be of great use to anyone wishing to modify a surface by the grafting methods. - Gregoire Herzog, CNRS-Universite de Lorraine, Villers-les-Nancy, France