He was an inaugural member of the advisory board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, and is currently on the advisory board of Advanced Materials and Chemistry—a European Journal, and a member of the Inorganic Synthesis Corporation. His research interests focus on the solid state magnetic, electrical, and optical properties of molecule-based (organic, organometallic, and inorganic coordination) materials and electron transfer complexes as well as the surface modification of solids. He has edited seventeen monographs and published over 500 papers in these and other areas and was recipient of the 2000 American Chemical Society Award for Chemistry of Materials and the 2007 American Physical Society’s James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials among several other awards.