Between Solid-State NMR and Nanoscience—a Long Journey with Great Perspectives: A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Jacek Klinowski

Dear Colleagues,

Jacek Klinowski, a scientist working in solid-state NMR and nanotechnology, is well known for being the co-author of the Lerf–Klinowski model of graphite oxide, a precursor to graphene which predates the Nobel Prize awarded to André Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their discovery of graphene in 2010.

Born in Kraków, Poland, on 11 October 1943, Jacek Klinowski has since obtained Ph.D. degrees from the Jagiellonian University and from the University of London, and an M.A. and Sc.D. from the University of Cambridge, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Chemical Physics. Between 1968 and 1979 he worked at Imperial College London on isomorphous replacements in aluminosilicates. In 1980, he moved to Cambridge to work on the solid-state NMR of molecular sieves. He first learned of this technique while working in Professor C.A. Fyfe’s laboratory and then refined it at the University of Guelph, Canada. His early work was on 29Si and 27Al. Papers on the ordering of aluminum and silicon in zeolitic frameworks, the dealumination of zeolites, the relationship between chemical shifts and structure, and ultrastabilization have appeared in Nature and other leading journals and are now citation classics.

His interests include nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, particularly of inorganic solids such as zeolite catalysts and other molecular sieves, layered materials, fullerenes, and ceramics. He is also involved in research on the geometric reasons behind the chemical activity of solids and the rules governing the relationship between local order and physical properties, using mathematical techniques and computer visualization to achieve these goals. The key concept here is that of periodic minimal curvature.

Jacek Klinowski has 502 publications to his name and is the co-author, with J.W. Hennel, of the Fundamentals of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Longman, 1993) and the Primer of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Imperial College Press, 1998). He was also the Editor-in-Chief of Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for 20 years. He is a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences; an Honorary Member of the Polish Chemical Society, and a holder of the Society’s Marie Curie Medal; Honorary Professor of Jagiellonian University; Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Warsaw; and a Visiting Professor at the universities of Poznań (Poland), Aveiro (Portugal), and Cagliari (Italy).

Dr. Leszek Stobinski
Prof. Dr. Teobald Kupka
Guest Editors

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