TOIVO T. KODAS and MARK HAMPDEN-SMITH are full professors in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, respectively, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. They are also the founders of the companies Nanochem Research, Inc./ Superior MicroPowders, LLC that are currently commercializing several of the processes discussed in the book. Kodas and Hampden-Smith have previously collaborated to author and coedit Chemistry of Metals CVD, published by Wiley-VCH in 1994. Professor Hampden-Smith has coedited Chemistry of Advanced Materials: An Overview, a 1998 Wiley-VCH publication.