Steve’s academic interests focus on the utilisation of supercritical carbon dioxide for polymer synthesis, polymer processing and preparation of novel polymeric materials for tissue engineering and drug delivery. Steve currently holds a chair of Chemistry at the School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham and prior to this held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (1991–1999). In 2001 he was recipient of the Jerwood–Salters Environment Award and the Corday–Morgan Medal and Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2003 he received a Royal Society–Wolfson Research Merit Award. A more detailed description of his research and some movies of supercritical fluids can be viewed athttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/∼pczctg/Index.htm