During the past sixteen years, I have had many collaborators in developing the constructal law: Sylvie Lorente, Heitor Reis, António Miguel, Stephen Périn, Gilbert Merkx, Cesare Biserni, Luiz Rocha, Shigeo Kimura, Giulio Lorenzini, Tanmay Basak, James Marden, Jordan Charles, Edward Jones, Erdal Cetkin, Yong Sung Kim, Jaedal Lee, Kuan-Min Wang, Atit Koonsrisuk, Sunwoo Kim, and many more. This book is about our most recent work together and a warm reminder that science is good and fun when interesting ideas bring interesting minds together.
The text and figures were organized and improved by Deborah Fraze. New figures were drawn by Erdal Cetkin and Kuan-Min Wang.
Thanks are also due to Janine Steel Zane, Suzanne Pederson, Phillip Manning, Thomas G. Hentoff, E. Kemp Reece Jr., Dr. Kitty M. Steel, and Lewis Steel.
My coauthor and I owe a special debt of gratitude to our agent, Tina Bennett. She heard the click early on, and her insightful guidance every step of the way has helped this project flow better and better.
Finally, we owe special thanks to the team at Doubleday, beginning with our editor, Melissa Danaczko, whose sharp eye and boundless curiosity improved this book in ways large and small.