Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
ORCID: 0000-0002-8806-322X
Homepage: http://peng-group.dlut.edu.cn/en.htm
Xiaojun Peng received his Ph.D. in 1990 at Dalian University of Technology. After completing postdoctoral research in Nankai University, he has been working at Dalian University of Technology since 1992. In 2001 and 2002, he has been a visiting scholar in Stockholm University and Northwestern University (U.S.A), respectively. Currently, he is a professor and the director of State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of China in Dalian University of Technology, and Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests cover photo-driven smart molecules and product engineering, including: 1. Fluorescent sensors: based on photo-induced electron transfer, intramolecular charge transfer and energy transfer, fluorescent chemosensors for chemicals or biomarker, including enzymes, proteins, DNA, RNA and reactive oxygen species, suitable for bio-system applications, such as diagnosis and fluorescence-guided surgery. 2. Photosensitizers for cancer photodynamic therapy: the platform of NIR photo-generator system of superoxide anion free radical for highly efficient photodynamic ablation of hypoxic tumors. 3. Artificial intelligence in molecule design and product engineering: the ultimate products design and optimization on the chemical structures from molecule to nano- and macro-structure, as well as on the clean manufacturing processes at bench-, pilot- and mega-scale, by machine learning.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
ORCID: 0000-0002-8064-6009
Homepage: https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/kypu/index.html
Email: kypu@ntu.edu.sg
Dr. Kanyi Pu is a President’s Chair Professor at the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB) and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at NTU. Additionally, he holds the role of Associate Dean for Research at the College of Engineering. Recognized as one of the world's most influential researchers in Chemistry and Materials Science fields by Web of Science, he has received esteemed awards, including the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Investigatorship and the Biomaterials Science Lectureship Award. Dr. Pu serves as the executive editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society and acts as an editorial advisory board member for over 18 renowned journals, including Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Functional Materials, Biomaterials, Small, and Bioconjugate Chemistry.
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherland
ORCID: 0000-0002-5810-3657
Homepage: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/sylvestre-bonnet#tab-1
Email: bonnet@chem.leidenuniv.nl
Sylvestre Bonnet is full professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry at Leiden University. He obtained his PhD (2005) at the University of Strasbourg, France, and he moved to the Netherlands as a postdoc, where he successively worked in the groups of Gerard van Koten (Utrecht), Jan Reedijk (Leiden), and Antoinette Killian and Bert Klein Gebbink (Utrecht). Between 2009 and 2014 he completed a Tenure Track position in Inorganic Chemistry at Leiden University, where he was tenured in 2015. His expertise lies at the crossing point between bioinorganic chemistry, photochemistry, and lipid membranes. His current research interests are anticancer photoactivated chemotherapy, supramolecular photocatalysis, and upconversion. He obtained several prestigious grants including a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (2013), and three young investigator grants (VENI 2008, VIDI 2012, VICI 2019) from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
ORCID: 0000-0003-4962-5186
Homepage: http://faculty.dlut.edu.cn/2005011054/zh_CN/index.htm
Email: fanjl@dlut.edu.cn
Jiangli Fan is professor at State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology (DUT). She received her BS and MS from University of Science and Technology Liaoning, and her PhD from Dalian University of Technology (DUT). She joined DUT as a lecturer in 2005 and was promoted to professor in 2015. Her research is focused on fluorescent dyes and their biological applications. She has published over 200 papers which have been cited for over 9400 times. She has received the first prize for Natural Science of Ministry of Education (2018), the first prize of Technology Invention China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (2019), the State Technology Invention Awards (Second Class, 2020), China Youth Science and Technology (2020), Hou Debang Chemical Engineering Science and Technology Award (2021) and Chinese Chemical Society-BASF Young Knowledge Innovation Award (2022).
University of Bath, Bath, UK
ORCID: 0000-0002-4095-2191
Homepage: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/tony-james
Email: t.d.james@bath.ac.uk
Tony James is a professor at the University of Bath and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He received his BSc from the University of East Anglia (1986), PhD from the University of Victoria (1991), and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Japan with Seiji Shinkai (1991-1995). He was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham (1995-2000) before moving to the University of Bath in 2001. His research interests include many aspects of supramolecular chemistry, including molecular recognition, fluorescent sensor design, fluorescence imaging and theranostic systems. He has published over 418 publications with a total of > 23,196 citations at a frequency of >54 citations per article (h-index of 80). He received the Daiwa Adrian Prize in 2013, CASE Prize in 2015, MSMLG Czarnik Award in 2018, the Frontiers in Chemistry Diversity Award in 2020, and Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2017-2022).
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Dalian, China
ORCID: 0000-0001-8223-705X
Homepage: http://english.dicp.cas.cn/about/people/index_21148.html
Guohui Li is a professor at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and he is serving as the associate director of State Key Lab of Molecular Reaction Dynamics. He received PhD from DICP in 2000. He worked in Universitiy of New Mexico, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard Medical School as postdoctoral fellow from 2000 to 2006 and worked in Biogen Idec Inc. as Scientist from 2006 to 2009. He joined DICP as a Principal Investigator in 2009. His current research focuses on methodology developments and applications on the mechanical analysis and theoretical predictions of molecular structures and function. He has published more than 150 papers in premier journals, including Nature, Science, J Phys Chem Lett, and J Chem Theory Comput, etc.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
ORCID: 0000-0002-2583-818X
Homepage: https://www.chem.tsinghua.edu.cn/chemen/info/1051/1560.htm
Email: liudongsheng@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Dongsheng Liu learned polymer sciences in University of Science and Technology of China and graduated with a B.S. degree in 1993. He then worked as a research associate in the Institute of Chemistry, CAS for six years and earned his Master degree on polymer chemistry in 1999. From 1999 to 2002, he finished his Ph.D study on the self-templated DNA circularization in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the supervision of Professor Albert S. C. Chan. In 2003, he joined the Chemistry Department of Cambridge University as a postdoc research associate, worked on DNA nanotechnology with Professor Shankar Balasubramanian. In 2005, he joined the National Centre for NanoScience and Technology, China as a principle investigator and in June 2009, he moved to the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University as a full professor. He was awarded the 1st “CCS-RSC Young Chemist Award” in 2008, the 7th CCS-BASF Youth Innovation Prize in 2014. Dongsheng was invited as FRSC in 2011, became “Changjiang” Chair Professor in 2015 and Fellow of CCS in 2020. His research mainly focuses on the assembly of DNA and its hybrids.
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
ORCID: 0000-0003-2891-603X
Homepage: http://faculty.dlut.edu.cn/liutao/zh_CN/index.htm
Email: liutao@dlut.edu.cn
Tao Liu is professor in Dalian University of Technology (DUT), and he is serving as deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals at DUT. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Qufu Normal University in 2003, and received his Ph.D. in College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Peking University in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu University, Japan, and he joined Dalian University of Technology in 2010. His research interest focuses on the light-responsive functional materials and the reversible control of molecular magnetic bistable states. He has received the Young Chemist Award of the Chinese Chemical Society (2015), and the First Class Research Award of Natural Science of Liaoning Province (2020).
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
ORCID: 0000-0002-7665-6212
Homepage: http://www.chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp/labhp/solid1/
Email: ryotaro.matsuda@chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Ryotaro Matsuda is a professor in Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya University, Japan. He received his PhD degree in engineering from Kyoto University in 2005. In 2006 he started to work at Kyushu University as an Assistant Professor. In 2008, he was appointed group leader of ERATO Project promoted by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), and after that, in 2013, he became a Program-Specific Associate Professor at Kyoto University. Since November 2015, He has held his current position. He advances research on molecular recognition in the nanospace of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), so as to develop new porous materials for molecular storage and separation. His research group is also interested in synthesis of structurally transformable MOFs so-called flexible MOFs that can change sorption behaviors in response to external physical or chemical stimuli. He has received several awards, including JSPS Prize (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) in 2020.
New York University, New York, USA, and NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2416-65692
Homepage: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/science/faculty/pance-naumov.html
Email: pance.naumov@nyu.edu
Dr. Panče Naumov is a professor of chemistry at New York University Abu Dhabi, a Global Network Professor of NYU, and Director of the Center for Smart Engineering Materials (CSEM). Dr. Naumov holds a PhD in chemistry and materials science from Tokyo Institute of Technology and a BSc from Ss Cyril & Methodius University in Macedonia. He was a research fellow at the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science, faculty at Osaka University and Kyoto University, and a Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University in Japan. Dr. Naumov is the founder of the UAE Chapter and a fellow of the American Chemical Society, and founding President of the Emirates Crystallographic Society. At the core of the current research in the Naumov group are new solid smart materials with exotic properties, especially smart molecular crystals, some of which are applicable to efficient and controllable energy transduction of light and heat into work.
Hunan University, Changsha, China
ORCID: 0000-0001-7185-9857
Homepage: http://cmeel.hnu.edu.cn/index.htm
Email: shuangyinwang@hnu.edu.cn
Prof. Shuangyin Wang is a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, a highly cited scientist in chemistry and materials science by Clarivate Analytics, a chief scientist in a key research and development program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and a project leader of original exploration by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2006 and obtained a PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2010. He subsequently conducted research at Case Western Reserve University in the United States, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom (as a Marie Curie scholar). His main research areas are defect chemistry of electrocatalysts, organic molecular electrocatalytic transformation, and high-temperature electrocatalysis. His representative papers have been published in journals such as National Science Reviews, Science Bulletin, Nature Chem., Nature Catalysis, JACS, Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., and Chem, with a total of more than 32,000 citations and an h-index of 100. He have received awards such as the Chinese Youth Science and Technology Award, the Youth Science Award of the Ministry of Education, the first prize of the Hunan Natural Science Award, and the Qingshan Science and Technology Award.
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
ORCID: 0000-0002-1728-3970
Homepage: http://of2m.ewha.ac.kr
Email: jyoon@ewha.ac.kr
Juyoung Yoon received his Ph.D. degree in 1994 from The Ohio State University. After completing postdoctoral research at UCLA and Scripps Research Institute, he joined the faculty at Silla University in 1998. In 2002, he moved to Ewha Womans University, where he is currently Professor of Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience. He is a member of Korean Academy of Science and Technology, a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and currently a Distinguished Professor of Ewha. He published over 430 SCI research papers with an h-index of 120. His research interests include investigations of fluorescent probes, activatable photosensitizers and phototherapy. His recent scientific awards include Korean Chemical Society Award (2016), Ewha Academic Award (2016), 2nd Korea Toray Science Award (2019), 13th Kyung-Ahm Academic Award (2020) and MSMLG Czarnik Award (2022). He was listed as a highly cited researcher in chemistry since 2014.
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
ORCID: 0000-0002-4623-3331
Homepage: https://lcpolymergroup.fudan.edu.cn/main.htm
Email: ylyu@fudan.edu.cn
Yanlei Yu is a professor in the Department of Materials Science at Fudan University and she is serving as Director of Department of Materials Science. She graduated in applied chemistry from Anhui University in 1993 and received her MS from the University of Science and Technology of China (1996) and her PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology (2004). In 2004, he was promoted to Professor at Fudan University. Her research interests focus on the development of photodeformable smart materials and light-controllable interface materials with photosensitive polymers and liquid crystal polymers. She has over 100 publications with more than 10000 citations. Her scientific awards include Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leaders Plan (2017), Chinese Chemical Society-Evonik Chemical Innovation Award for Distinguished Scientist (2018), First prize of Shanghai Award for Natural Science (2019) and Shanghai Yucai Award (2019).
East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
ORCID: 0000-0001-9103-166X
Homepage: https://whzhu.ecust.edu.cn
Email: whzhu@ecust.edu.cn
Weihong Zhu is a professor at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China, and he is serving as the vice-president of ECUST and the director of Institute of Fine Chemicals. He received his BS from Nanjing Normal University in 1992, MS from Nankai University in 1995 and PhD from ECUST in 1999. He worked in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) as postdoctoral fellow from 2001 to 2003. He was a visiting professor in University of Tsukuba from 2004 to 2005 and became a full professor in 2004. His current research interests are focused on functional chromophores, including fluorescent sensors, photochromism, and metal free solar cell sensitizers. He has published more than 330 papers with H-index of 78. He has received several awards, such as NSFC for Distinguished Young Scholars (2013) and Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor by the Education Ministry of China (2015), two Second Class Prizes of National Natural Science Award, two First Class Prizes of Shanghai Natural Science Award and one First Class Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award.
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Homepage: http://faculty.dlut.edu.cn/EUA/en/zdylm/1075601/list/index.htm
University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, USA
Homepage: https://chemistry.illinois.edu/jeffchan
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/benmd/members/faculty/dr-hak-soo-choi
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Homepage: http://teacher.scu.edu.cn/ftp_teacher0/cly/chuly.htm
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Dalian, China
Homepage: http://deng.dicp.ac.cn/
University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia
Homepage: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Philip.Gale
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Homepage: http://www.hfnl.ustc.edu.cn/detail?id=11480
University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Homepage: https://chemistry.tcd.ie/staff/people/gunnlaugsson/supervisor.php
Peking University, Beijing, China
Homepage: https://en.coe.pku.edu.cn/faculty/facultyaz/891281.htm
Institute of Chemistry, CAS, Beijing, China
Homepage: http://spm.iccas.ac.cn/hujinsong/People/wljys/
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Homepage: http://biopolymer.yonsei.ac.kr
University of Delaware, Newark, USA
Homepage: https://www.jiaogroup.org
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Homepage: http://ltb.hrbeu.edu.cn/2020/0503/c11272a250283/page.htm
Ajou University, Suwon, Korea
Homepage: http://mpbl.ajou.ac.kr
Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Homepage: http://orgchem.korea.ac.kr/sub01/sub01.php
Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Homepage: http://www.quanlilab.com
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Homepage: http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~liujw
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Homepage: https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/z.liu/index.html
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Homepage: https://hysz.nju.edu.cn/ytlong/main.htm
University of North Texas, Denton, USA
Homepage: http://www.chemistry.unt.edu/~sqma/pages/members.html
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Homepage: http://www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/index.php/en/equipes/49-unusual-nucleic-acid-structures
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Homepage: https://www.tminami.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/?page_id=36
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, USA
Homepage: www.olsonlaboratory.com
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Homepage: http://www2.scut.edu.cn/aiepolymer/31853/list.htm
East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Homepage: https://chem.ecust.edu.cn/_t222/2014/1113/c6655a50277/page.htm
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico city, Mexico
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/iquimica.unam.mx/rodriguez-molina/home
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Homepage: http://experts.utexas.edu/jonathan_sessler
Beihang University, Beijing, China
Homepage: https://shi.buaa.edu.cn/shuijianglan/en/index.htm
Cincinnati University, Cincinnati, USA
Homepage: https://www.yujiesun.org/
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Homepage: https://ytakeoka.xcience.jp/index_E.html
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Homepage: http://www.dynafluors.co.uk
Peking University, Beijing, China
Homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Hai-Yan-Xie-2163446697
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Dalian, China
Homepage: https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~dicpzcxu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Homepage: https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/xuzc/
Donghua University, Shanghai, China
Homepage: https://www.dhu.edu.cn/2019/0402/c5958a211084/page.htm
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Homepage: https://2011-ichem.xmu.edu.cn/en/info/1113/5263.htm
Westlake University, Hangzhou, China
Homepage: https://xinzhang.lab.westlake.edu.cn/Xin_Zhang.htm
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Homepage: http://www.nanolab.fudan.edu.cn/people.html
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
José Oliveira obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Before joining Wiley in 2001, he worked at the University of Antwerp.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Xin Su received his BSc in chemistry from Nankai University in 2009 and PhD in organic chemistry from Dartmouth College in 2013. Following postdoctoral training at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh, he worked as an associate editor for Wiley′s materials science journals including Advanced Materials from 2015 to 2017. After spending a year at SpringerNature as a senior editor of Nature Chemistry, Xin joined the editorial team of Angewandte Chemie in 2018 and now serves as an executive editor of the journal) and Ph.D. at the University of the Witwater.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Eric Ying Wang (王英) completed his PhD at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH, Sweden) in 2014 where his thesis work was about mechanistic study of artificial photosynthesis. After graduation from KTH he held position as a Wallenberg–Stanford Postdoc at Stanford University (USA) from 2014 to 2016, where he was involved in projects related to nitrogen reduction. In 2016 Eric moved back to Sweden and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at KTH until he joined Wiley-VCH in 2018. He is based in Wiley's Shanghai office.
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Guangchen Xu obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. (Hons) from the Beijing University of Technology. He spent a year at Michigan State University as a visiting scholar. Before joining the Wiley team in Beijing in 2011, he was an Assistant Professor at Beijing University of Technology.
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Hanyi Xie obtained her BSc at Shandong University, followed by her PhD in a joint program at Peking University and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology. She joined Wiley in 2021.
Smart Molecules editorial office, Dalian, China
Li Li obtained her master's degree from Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011) and her Ph.D. degree from Hokkaido University, Japan (2014). After graduation from Hokkaido University, she moved to University of Minnesota and worked as a researcher. She joined Smart Molecules editorial office in 2022.
Smart Molecules editorial office, Dalian, China
Yichen Zhou obtained her Master degree from Dalian Maritime University (2015-2018) and received her Ph.D. degree in Applied Chemistry (2018-2023) from Dalian University of Technology. She joined the Smart Molecules editorial office in 2023.