The 1st Materials Chemistry Frontiers International Symposium

Zhen Li is a full professor at Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University (WHU). He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from WHU in 1997 and 2002, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Jingui Qin. In 2003-2004, he worked in the Hongkong University of Science and Technology as Research Associate in the group of Prof. Ben Zhong Tang. In 2010, he worked in Georgia Institute of Technology in the group of Prof. Seth Marder. In 2014, he worked in National University of Singapore as a visiting professor for one month. His research interests are in the development of organic molecules and polymers with new structure and new functions for organic electronics and photonics. He has published more than 260 papers, which has been cited by other scientists for more than 6500 times with an h-index of 51. He has been awarded several prizes, including Chinese Chemical Society Award for Outstanding Young Chemist (2007), Asia Rising Star (2013), and National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (2013).
 

Prof. Xiaolin Xie is a full professor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He received Ph.D degree from Sichuan University in 1995, which was followed by 2 years postdoctoral research at Zhejiang University. In December 1997, he joined in HUST. His researching interests are polymer composites, processing rheology and holography optical materials. He is editorial members of several journals, such as Composites Science and Technology, Acta Polymerica Sinica, and Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica. Also, he was committee member of Polymer Science Section Committee, Chinese Society of Chemistry, vice director of Rheology Section Committee, Chinese Society of Chemistry and Chinese Society of Mechanics. Till now, he has published 170 SCI papers and won the Second-Grade National Natural Scientific Award of China in 2010.

Kazuo Tanaka received his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from Kyoto University, and worked in Stanford University, USA, Kyoto University, and RIKEN as a postdoctoral fellow. Until this time, he has studied on the synthetic chemistry based on DNA for developing DNA wires to construct a molecular circuit and fluorescent nucleobases to detect point mutations in the genomes. In 2007, he has moved to the Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, and in 2015, he was promoted to an associate professor. His research projects especially focus on design of new functional materials based on the heteroatom-containing polymers and organic−inorganic polymer hybrids for developing optoelectronic devices and bio-related materials.

 

Prof. Lin Zhuang earned his Ph.D. (1998) in electrochemistry at Wuhan University. Then he joined the Department of Chemistry at Wuhan University as a lecturer, and was promoted to associate professor and full professor in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He was a visiting scientist at Cornell University from 2004 to 2005, and is an adjunct professor of Xiamen University. He is an associate editor of Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, and serves an editorial board member of Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Science China: Chemistry, Acta Chimica Sinica and Journal of Electrochemistry. He was a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the Changjiang Professorship appointed by Ministry of Education of China. He is currently the vice president of Chinese Society of Electrochemistry, and was the vice chair of the physical electrochemical division of International Society of Electrochemistry and the chair of China section of Electrochemical Society.

Feihe Huang, born in 1973, obtained his PhD from Virginia Tech under the guidance of Prof. Harry W. Gibson in March 2005. Then he joined Prof. Peter J. Stang’s group at University of Utah as a postdoctor. He is Qiushi Chair Professor of Zhejiang University. His current research interests are supramolecular polymers and pillararene supramolecular chemistry. Awards and honors he has received include Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chinese Chemical Society AkzoNobel Chemical Sciences Award and Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry. His publications have been cited 10724 times with an h-index of 56. He has served as a guest editor for Chem Soc Rev, Acc Chem Res, Chem Rev, and Chem Commun. He sits on the Advisory Boards of Chem Soc Rev, Chem Commun, Acta Chim Sinica, Macromolecules, ACS Macro Lett, and Polym Chem.

Dr. Hongwei Han is Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO). He obtained his bachelor degree from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Science in 2000 and his doctor degree from the School of Physics and Technology in 2005 at Wuhan University. And then, Dr. Han continued his research work at Monash University of Australia as Postdoc. After that he joined HUST and WNLO in 2008 and began to establish his group of Printable Mesoscopic Photovoltaics & Optoelectronics. Since 2000, Dr. Han has worked on the fully printable mesoscopic solar cells. The characteristic of such device is to print nanocrystalline layer, spacer layer and counter electrode layer on a single conductive substrates layer-by-layer, and then sensitized with dye and filled with electrolyte (or filled with perovskite materials directly). In 2015 his group fabricated 7m2 fully printable mesoscopic perovskite solar module. His more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in Science、 Nature Chemistry、J. Am. Chem. Soc. et al. have been published and 14 Chinese Patents have been applied within past five years.

Shu Seki graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1993, and received his PhD degree in 2001 from Osaka University.  He joined Argonne National Laboratory, USA in 1993, and Delft University of Technology in 2001.  He was appointed as Professor of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University in 2009.  He was appointed as Professor of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in 2015.  His research is primarily focused on the physical chemistry of condensed matters, functional organic materials, and nanomaterials.



 

Prof. Taolei Sun mainly worked on biopolymers and biochemistry. He received his PhD in Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in 2002. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Sofja Kovalevskaja by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany, and got funding support (1 million Euros) to build an independent research group in Muenster University. In late 2009, he joined Wuhan University of Technology, China, and was appointed as the ‘‘Chang-Jiang Scholar’’ distinguished professor. In 2013, he got the China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists, and also was selected as the “Leading talents for Science and Technology Innovations”. In 2015, he was granted the “Chinese Chemical Society-BASF Innovation Award”.

Dan Wang graduated from Jilin University in 1994. He entered a master's degree program at his alma mater in the same year. He obtained his Ph.D. from Yamanashi University in Japan in 2001. He was awarded by Hundred Talent Program of the CAS, and served as professor of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS in February 2004. And he earned the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2013.
In recent years, he mainly focused on the design and controllable synthesis of functional inorganic materials with porous or hollow structures, and their applications in solar cells, Li-ion batteries and photocatalyst and gas sensors, etc.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and he sits on advisory boards for several international journals, such as Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Science, Advanced Materials Interface.　　

Ben Zhong Tang is Stephen K. C. Cheong Professor of Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests include materials science, polymer chemistry and biomedical engineering. He received BS and PhD degrees from South China University of Technology and Kyoto University, respectively, and conducted postdoctoral research at University of Toronto. He joined the Department of Chemistry at HKUST in 1994. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He has been listed by Thomson Reuters as a Highly Cited Researcher in two disciplines: Chemistry and Materials Science. He received a Natural Science Award from the Chinese Government and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Croucher Foundation in 2007.