Mechanobiochemistry means never having to say, “I’m sorry”

Many years ago my wife and I published an article together in J. Chemical Education. Little did I know that one of the nagging consequences of that article would be setting people straight when they incorrectly listed me as first author. Constance Bailey ’10 and her spouse Johnathan Brantley may have successfully dodged this problem. They recently published Mechanobiochemistry: harnessing biomacromolecules for force-responsive materials as a review article in Polymer Chemistry (2013), DOI: 10.1039/c3py00001j. They have different last names (although the names do sound a little alike) and Johnathan is listed as the first author, Constance as the second. You can look at their photos, read about their research interests at U. Texas-Austin, and maybe figure out how scientists in two different labs teamed up on a review article by checking the article’s front page.