About the Guest Editors

**Reshef Tenne** earned his Ph.D. in 1976 in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He joined the Weizmann Institute in 1979, where he was promoted to a professor in 1995. He headed the Department of Materials and Interfaces and was the director of the G. Schmidt Minerva Center for Supramolecular Chemistry (2000–2007) and the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science (2003–2014).

Prof. Tenne is recognized for the discovery of the inorganic fullerene-like (IF) nanostructures and inorganic nanotubes (INT) of WS2 and MoS2 (in 1992); for their detailed study and for their

commercialization as superior solid lubricants. He holds the Drake Family Chair in Nanotechnology (2004–); received the Materials Research Society Medal (2005); The Kolthoff Prize in Chemistry of the Technion, Israel (2005); The Israel Vacuum Society Excellence in Science Prize (2006); The Landau Prize in Nanotechnology (2006); was nominated as MRS Fellow in 2008; receiving the Israel Chemical Society Prize (2008) and the European Research Society (ERC) Advanced Research Grant (2008). In 2011, he was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was chosen to deliver the CNR Award Lecture (Indian Chemical Res. Soc.) in 2012 and received the ChinaNano plenary lecture prize (2011). His paper in Nanomaterials and Energy Journal received the best paper award of the year (in 2014) from the Institute of Civil Engineering (UK). Prof. Tenne is recipient of the Rothschild Prize in Physics and Chemistry (2015).

**Andrey N. Enyashin** received his Ph.D. in chemistry at Ural Technical State University (Yekaterinburg) in 2005. After a postdoc in the theoretical chemistry group of Prof. Gotthard Seifert at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany, he was appointed senior researcher at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry of UB RAS (Russian Federation). He was also a guest scientist at the Donostia International Physics Center, Spain. He is a recipient of the Samsung Electro-Mechanics Medal (2007). Currently, his field of interest is computational materials science of inorganic and carbon nanostructures.
