Professor Claus Eisenbach’s long-term interest has been in the design, synthesis and characterization of novel polymers and polymer materials. He has been doing research on assembly and structure formation in polymeric systems and structure-properties relationships in polymers. His work presently focuses on polyelectrolyte and multicomponent materials systems. Claus Eisenbach is Professor emeritus at Stuttgart University (www.uni-stuttgart.de/ipoc/). His present research focus lead to a collaboration on bio-inspired wet adhesion systems and resilient multiphase soft materials with the MRL at UCSB.