Other Publications

Entries in The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (2nd Edn) (Fontana, 1999).

“Supramolecular chemistry” (with Jean-Marie Lehn), in The New Chemistry (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Contributions in The Science Book (ed. P. Tallack) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001).

“Materials of the Future”, in The Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO, 2002). www.eolss.com

“Life’s matrix”, chapter in Water (a compilation) (Hoffmann & Campe, 2003).

Entries in Within The Stone, a selection of essays and texts to accompany images of minerals by photographer Bill Atkinson (BrownTrout, 2004).

“Molecular Biomimetics”, chapter in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (Marcel Dekker, 2004).

My article on “Climate change” from the February 2000 issue of Prospect is reprinted in the 2005 compilation Thinking Allowed: The Best of Prospect 1995-2005 (Atlantic, 2005).

I was an author and editor of the European Commission Expert Group report on Synthetic Biology (2005), available from the EC at Office SDME 01/37, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium.

“Water in Science and Scientific Discovery”, chapter in A History of Water, Series II, Vol. 1: Ideas of Water from Antiquity to Modern Times, eds Terje Tvedt & Terje Oestigaard. I.B. Tauris, London, 2010.