Current Chinese Science

Dr. Zaizhu Lou is currently an Associate Professor and Head of Nanophotonic Material Lab at Jinan University, China. He completed his PhD from Sate Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University in 2014. He was a Fellow Researcher at Osaka University, Japan from 2015-2017. He has received an "Outstanding Youth Fund of Guangdong Province" in 2018. His research interests include Nanophotonic, Crystal Materials. He has more than 20 publications and has received many other awards too.

Dr. Muhammad Humayun obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry & Materials Science from Heilongjiang University China in 2017. He received the Distinguished International PhD Scholar award from the Chinese Government in 2016. In addition, he received an outstanding graduate award from Heilongjiang University China in 2017. From Aug 2017-Dec 2020, he worked as a Postdoc in Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) China. Currently, he is working as a Distinguished Research Fellow in the same Laboratory. He is the author, co-author of 60 peer-reviewed SCI publications with citations over 2100 (h-index 24). His current research interests include the design of semiconductor photocatalysts for energy conversion and environmental remediation.

Dr. Santanu K. Maiti is currently an Associate Professor of Physics at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He obtained his phD degree from Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India in 2008. His research interests mainly focus on Quantum Transport in Meso-scale and Nano-scale Systems. He has also been working as Associate Editor, Section Editor as well as Editorial Board Member in several International Journals over the past many years. He has also published many Reviews, co-edited a Book in Springer Series and contributed a chapter to a Book. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed International Journals, out of which more than sixty five papers he published independently and did almost over hundred presentations in National and International Conferences.

Dr. Guibin Wang obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2000 in polymer chemistry and physics from Jilin University. In 2001, he became a full professor. Wang’s research interests are synthesis, modification and processing of high- performance polymers. He has published more than 170 SCI papers. There have been 64 China invention patents authorized. He has won a National Technical Invention Award in second place and 4 first prizes of other provincial and ministerial science and technology awards and had won 17 other provincial and municipal honors.

Dr. Anatoly A. Ischenko is a Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the RTU-MIREA-Russian Technological University, M.V. Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies, Moscow, Russian Federation. Ultrafast processes in free molecules and condensed matter and instrumental methods of analysis represent his main area of research. Anatoly Ischenko received his Ph.D in 1974 and Dr. Sci. degree in 1990 from the Moscow Lomonosov State University and worked there as a researcher and professor of physical chemistry until 1998. In 1998 he was invited to Moscow Lomonosov University of Fine Chemical Technology for a position of the Head of Department of Analytical Chemistry. He spent one year (1976-1977) as scholar and in 1979 as a research associate at the electron diffraction laboratory at Oslo University, Norway and has had a long period of collaboration with electron diffraction group, since 1992 at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, USA as an invited professor.

Dr. Mohamed Abbas Ibrahim is a professor of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Al Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt. Currently, he is a professor of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, KSA. He earned a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Regensburg, Germany, in collaboration with Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. His research interests include biomaterials as drug delivery systems, pelletization, nanotechnology and tablet technology. He supervised more than 10 master and Ph.D. students in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ibrahim has a good experience in the tablet and pelletization technology, biomaterials, nanotechnology and polymeric drug delivery systems. He published more than 90 research and review articles in these areas.

Dr. Ahmed Rebey is a Full Professor in the Physics Department of Faculty of Sciences of Monastir, University of Monastir, Tunisia. Currently, He is a cooperating Professor in Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. He guided many candidates in their project of Master and Ph. Degree. His research interest focuses on epitaxy and characterization of semiconductors and nanostructure materials. He has published about 100 papers in internationally renowned academic journals. He has authored 2 chapter books in the research field. He has participated in national and international conferences.

Dr. Mohammad Hasanzadeh is an assistant professor of Pharmaceutical Analysis at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (TUOMS) at Drug Applied Research Center. He studied Electrochemistry at K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) and gained his M.S.c in 2008. In 2010, he founded Drug Applied Research Center and worked at that center as the PhD candidate for 4 years. Dr. Hasanzadeh has also received the International Razi Award for excellence in research in basic sciences in 2010 and 2020. He has published more than 250 original research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has been the PI of more than 10 national research projects funded by the Ministry of Health of Iran, Recently, he has focused on the immunosensing methods based on advanced nanomaterials towards early stage diagnosis of cancer and infectious disease. Also, he has some of important approach on the science and engineering of nanomaterials and nano-devices used in health such as: a) IFIA (The International Federal of Inventors Associations) CUP for the best invention of the 3 rd International Olympiad of inventors, Originators and innovators, 2012; b) Gold Medal Cup in 2 th , 3 rd , and 4 th International Invention Festival in 2012, 2013, and 2014, respectively; c) Distinguished in Nanotechnology, Business Plan Group, 2011 (7 th National Sheikh Bahaei Technology Festival.

Dr. Debashis Panda completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur. After that he joined as a post doctoral fellow at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and University of Utah, USA. Prior to joining the National Institute of Science and Technology, India, Dr. Panda also served as a post doctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. Dr. Panda awarded Indian academies SRF 2016, and INSA visiting scientists in 2017. His present research interest includes neuromorphic computing devices. Dr. Panda serves as a visiting scientist at NCTU, Taiwan, NPL New Delhi and IIT Kharagpur.

Currently a Full Professor in the Department of Physics at The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, Professor Suresh C Sharma graduated with PhD degree in Solid State Physics from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Professor Sharma is known as an innovative experimental condensed matter physicist, who has made very significant contributions to several different areas of physics, surface plasmons resonance spectroscopy and sensor development, nanomaterials and nanotechnology, thin-films, carbon-based materials, applications of positron annihilation spectroscopy for the characterization of defects in materials, discovery of Positronium localization in spontaneous density fluctuations in high-density gases, polymer-dispersed liquid-crystals, and high-pressure physics. Professor Sharma has published in highly-rated journals, has obtained several patents, and presented invited lectures at international and national conferences. He has also organized several international and national conferences. Professor Sharma has served as Director of the Center for Nanostructured Materials and Director of the Center for Positron Studies.

Dr. Cheng’s research focuses on the upconversion nanoparticles and nano rare earth additives for materials surface and alloying behavior modification. He and his co-workers have published more than 220 papers, which have been cited for thousands of times. He has also acquired more than 70 patents, most of which have been applied in the industry.

Prof. V. Ramachandra Prasad is currently working as a Professor in the Mathematics Department, School Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He has 25 years of teaching experience and has authored more than 100 publications in the area of fluid dynamics and heat transfer. Over the past decade he has worked in the areas of multi-physical fluid dynamics and numerical simulation. His work has investigated complex phenomena of interest in mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, chemical engineering, and material processing. He has made fundamental contributions in magnetic fluid dynamics, thermal radiation heat transfer, fluid modeling, micro polar non-Newtonian hydrodynamics, magnetic induction flows, viscoelastic liquid flows, porous media, and boundary flows. He has authored over 150 journal articles in these areas and also numerous conference presentations. He has published six books on radiation heat transfer, thermo-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects on boundary layer flows, and Viscoelastic flows. More recent work has involved non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, fluid particle suspensions, and lid driven cavities. The numerical methods he has used are the finite difference method, finite element method, network simulation methods, and finite volume codes. He has worked in collaboration with US, Indian, Spanish, British, and Taiwanese researchers. He is presently working as a reviewer for over 100 national and international journals. His h-index is 25 and i-10 index is 50.

Dr. Piyush S. Solanki is Assistant Professor in Physics working at Department of Physics, Saurashtra University, Rajkot. He is working on functional oxide materials such as mixed valent manganites, multiferroics, diluted magnetic semiconductors, high temperature superconductors and metal oxides. He has an expertise to work on polycrystalline bulk, nanostructures, thin films, devices, heterostructures, bilayers, multilayers and composites (powders, core–shell and thin films) consist of various functional oxides. He has capability to work with various synthesis methods and fabrication techniques such as solid state reaction route, sol–gel method, co–precipitation, chemical solution deposition, pulsed laser deposition and RF/DC sputtering. He has proficiency to deal with the research on some special techniques such as swift heavy ion irradiation, low energy ion implantation and temperature–magnetic field dependent neutron diffraction. He has also an expertise to deal with materials research including gas sensors, humidity sensors, solar cells, high energy radiation and bio–physics based nanomaterials and devices. He has published 91 international research articles in reputed journals. He has reviewed more than 130 articles for different internationally reputed journals.

Dr. Muhammad Tahir obtained his PhD in Materials Science from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2015 and is now working as an assistant professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. His research interests include the design and synthesis of nano-structure materials and their applications in electro-catalysis, photocatalysis and Super-capacitor. He has published more than 60 papers as an author/co-author in peer reviewed international SCI journals with various publishers including world premium scientific journals like, JACS, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Energy, Nano Research, Applied Catalysis B, JMCA, ACS energy Letters, etc. He has also provided services as a reviewer for International journals such as ACS, RSC, Willey and Springer etc. Dr. Tahir has also won several International awards such as Dr. Abdus Slam award in the field of Physics and excellent student award from Beijing Institute of Technology during his PhD.

Dr. Mikhail Moshkin is a head of the Department of Genetic Resources of Laboratory Animals, Institute of Cytology & Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia. His research interests encompass a broad set of interdisciplinary problems in the fields of physiology, reproductive biology, immunity, ecology, and so on. He is one of the leading experts in Russia in mouse and rodent biology; and since 2007 he has been appointed to supervise the construction and scientific development of the first in Russia Centre of Genetic Resources of Laboratory Animals (CGR). CGR is now fully functional facility providing a top-notch platform for interdisciplinary biomedical and pharmaceutical research on animal models. CGR Resources aims to close the gap between basic biological research and developing biomedical industry in Russian Federation, which has been listed as one of the prominent infrastructure projects developed in Russian Federation.

Pramoda Kumar Nayak is currently working as Adjunct Professor at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He received his doctoral degree in physics from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. After completion of his Ph.D, he worked as a post doctoral researcher and visiting scientist in several institutions around the globe including Institute for Plasma Research, India, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea. His research interest is to explore intriguing physics in van der Waals materials and their heterostructures. He has published more than fifty international journals, five book chapters, one book and three edited volumes so far in his research carrier.

Dr. Zhenhua Sun completed his doctorate in applied physics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012. Then he worked as a postdoctoral scientist in the Laboratory of Physics and Material studies (LPEM) in Paris, which is a joint laboratory of ESPCI, CNRS and UPMC in France. In 2015, he joined the College of Optoelectronic Engineering in Shenzhen University as an assistant professor. Since 2016, he is an associate professor in the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering in Shenzhen University.

Zhengshan Tian earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Henan Normal University in 1997, his M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry from Zhengzhou University in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Southeast University in 2015. From 2018, he served as an associate professor of School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at Pingdingshan University. He has authored or co-authored 30 peer-reviewed articles on basic and applied research topics, with a primary focus on materials chemistry, and is co-inventor in 10 patents. In 2016, he won the excellent doctoral dissertation award of jiangsu province.

Dr Qin Yuancheng received his PhD degree from Sichuan University, China in 2010. He joined the School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Nanchang Hangkong University as a Lecturer in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor at Nanchang Hangkong University and has received Outstanding Youth Funds of Jiangxi Province in 2017. His current research interest focuses on the development of Organic functional materials including solar cells, covalent organic frameworks, and porous organic polymers for energy, and environmental-related applications. Dr Yuancheng has more than 90 publications in well-reputed journals.

Dr Hongshang Peng is presently working as a Professor in the School of Science, Minzu University of China, Beijing. In the year 2007, he obtained his PhD in Optics from Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Ministry of Education, Institute of Optoelectronic Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. His research interests include (a) Luminescent nanosensors for 1O2, O2, pH, temperature, etc. (b) Phototherapy based on nanoparticles, and (c) Perovskite QDs.

Prof. Yuhai Zhang is currently the PI of the Lab for Advanced Luminescent Materials at the University of Jinan, Shandong, China. He received his Ph.D in chemistry from National University of Singapore in 2015, and then spent two years for his postdoc study in KAUST, Saudi Arabia. He. His research interest focuses on the emerging luminescent materials, including quantum dots, perovskite single crystals, and lanthanide-doped materials. As the first author or co-author, he has published more than 20 SCI-accepted papers in internationally renowned academic journals.

Zhaoke Zheng is a Full Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2012 at Shandong University, and joined Osaka University as JSPS Fellow in 2015. He has published over 40 SCI- indexed papers on J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Nano Energy et al., including 6 ESI Highly Cited Papers. These papers received 2559 SCI citations. A number of awards and fellowships have been awarded to him, such as Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowships of Germany, JSPS Researcher of Japan, the Young Scholar of Distinction from the Ministry of Education, the Second-class Award of Science and Technology from Shandong Province and the Second-class Award of the Excellent Achievement from the Ministry of Education, etc. Hi research interest focuses on Crystal Materials.

Prof. Mingshan Zhu is currently a Full Professor at Jinan University, China. He graduated with doctorate degree from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science (ICCAS). His research interest is focused on the synthesis of functional nanomaterials for various photocatalytic and electrocatalytic applications, such as water splitting, removing environmental pollutants, photoelectrocatalytic oxidation of small organic molecules (methanol, ethanol...), photoelectrochemical sensor and so on. Prof. Zhu has published 105 papers in peer-reviewed journals including 75 papers as first or corresponding author.

She got Bachelor's degree in Qingdao Institute of Chemical Technology (Now Qingdao University of Science and Technology) in 1987-1991, Master's degree in Chemical engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 1993- 1996, PhD degree from Beijing normal university in 2000-2003. Since 1996, she has been working in Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University. In 2012-2014, worked as a visiting professor in Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. She has published many top papers such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Mater.; Adv. Funct. Mater.; ACS Appl. Mater. Interface; Chem. Commun.; J. Mater. Chem. A; J. Mater. Chem. C; Inorg. Chem.

Dr. Cheng Yang is presently serving as a School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, China. He completed his M.S. in Physics from College of Physics and Electronics，Shandong Normal University(SDNU), China in 2007. He further obtained PhD from SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea in 2011. His research interest includes Optical and electrical properties of the nano-scale low-dimensional materials, including carbon nanotubes(CNTs), graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and transition metal dichalcogenides, Fabrication and application of the DNA-FET sensors, et.al. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Xudong Cheng is Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). His research interests include thermal safety protection material, aerogel preparation and application in safety area and fire dynamics in long-narrow enclosure space. He is the Editorial Board Member of Fire Technology, Member of CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Member of the International Association for Fire Safety Science, etc. He has published 95 SCI indexed journal papers, and the total number of SCI citation is over 1200.

Dr. ZHAO obtained his PhD degree from Materials Science and Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2005 and is currently working as a full professor in School of Materials Science and Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China. As the vice-director of Shaanxi Engineering Laboratory for Graphene New Carbon Materials & Applications, his researcher topics are: the synthesis of graphene, carbon nanotubes (single-wall, multi-wall CNTs and amorphous CNTs), flexible graphite, 2D nanomaterials, the growth mechanism, and applications of carbon nanomaterials in composites, energy conversion (solar cell, supercapacitor and Li-ion batteries), smart device and biosensors. So far, he has published 2 English books, 10 patents more than 100 academic papers at international journals including Nanoscale, Journal of Power Sources, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Carbon, Scientific Reports and Applied Physics Letters et al., and also served as these Journals' reviewers. He was awarded the first prize of the science and technology of Shaanxi province (2013).

Dr. Jie Pan received his BS degree from Northwest University in china, MS degree from Tianjin University in china and PhD degree from National University of Singapore. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Tiangong University in China. His research mainly focuses on the design and fabrication of polymeric particles and exploration of their applications in drug delivery. At present, he has published 24 articles in AFM, biomaterials, and so on.

Dr. Zhi-Min Dang is presently serving as a Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He completed his MS from Xian Modern Chemistry Institute, China in 1997. He further obtained PhD Xian Jiaotong University in Electrical Engineering, China in2001. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. Runduo Zhang is presently serving as a Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He obtained PhD from Dalian University of Technology Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), South Korea in 2001. His research interest includes Environmental Catalysis and Surface Science focusing on synthesis and application of nanoscaled perovskites and mesoporous materials; Catalytic eliminate various gaseous pollutants (such as HCN, NO x, CO, VOCs, SO 2 , soot, carbonyl sulfide etc.); Material characterization and Mechanism study based on techniques of S/TEM, XRD, BET, TPD/R/O, TGA, XPS, in situ-DRIFT and FTIR. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Yuan-Fong Chou Chau received his PhD degree from Department of Electrophysics, Chiao Tung University, Taiwan in 2004. From 2012, he is a professor at Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. In 2015, he joined the Centre for Advanced Material and Energy Sciences (CAMES), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), Brunei, where he was appointed as an associated professor in 2015 and he was promoted to a professor position in 2018. His dominant research is focusing on physics related material and energy sciences, including novel nanofabrications for advanced nanophotonic and optoelectronic devices, and in characteristics and applications of localized and propagating plasmons at nanometal structure. During his academic career, he has published more than 110 Scopus index papers and 18 patents.

Dr. Qing Ye is presently serving as a Professor in Department of Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China. She completed her Master from Harbin Normal University, China. She further obtained PhD from Tsinghua University, China in 2005. She has been doing research in various fields in catalysis and materials for 25 years with more than 100 publications and 10 patents. Research projects in our group involve most aspects of materials, catalysis, such as preparation, characterization, activation, deactivation and regeneration of novel and commercially applicable catalysts with an emphasis on understanding of catalysts and catalytic reactions, catalytic materials, and processes, especially those that have potential practical applications.

Dr. Zongwei Xu is Associate Professor (Tenure track) from College of Precision Instrument & Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, China. His principle research interests include Defect engineering in Wide Band Gap semiconductor, Micro/nanofabrication using Focused ion Beam. As Principal Investigator (PI), Four National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects, one Newton Fund project, and three Sino-German Center for Research Promotion (SGC) projects have been granted. He served as the Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, and the Editorial Board Member of five other International Journals. He has published more than 50 SCI Journal papers and 5 Book Chapters.

Dr. Gehad Genidy Mohamed obtained Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. from Cairo University in 1996, 1993 and 1990 respectively. He is working as a Professor at Cairo University since 2007. He was the Associate Editor of J. of Advanced Research, Cairo University (2008 to 2012) and the Deputy Director of Chemistry laboratory, Chemical Environmental Hazard Mitigation Center (CEHM) at Cairo University, from September 2011 till May 2013. He has published more than 100 articles, several book chapters, and some patents in various well-reputed journals.

Dr. G. Murali is presently serving as an Associate Research Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Department of IT Convergence (BK21 PLUS), Chemical Industry Institute, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungju, Republic of Korea. He completed his M.Sc. from Sri Venkateswara University (SVU), Tirupati, India. He further obtained PhD from Sri Venkateswara University(SVU), Tirupati, India in 2014. His research interest includes characterization and multiple applications of nanoscale materials. The major fields of science that are relevant to my research work are nanotechnology, up/down conversion photonic materials and polarization emission property, semiconductor nanostructures, diluted magnetic semiconductors, sensors, photocatalysis, and liquid crystals. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. Zhenyi Zhang is a Professor and Vice Dean at the School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Dalian Minzu University. He is also a Vice Director at the Key Laboratory of Photosensitive Materials and Devices, Liaoning Province. e obtained his PHD degree from the School of Physics, Northeast Normal University with major in Materials Physics and Chemistry. He has been honored with Revitalization Talents of Liaoning Province in 2018. With major research interest in Materials chemistry and Nanotechnology, he has published over 70 articles in these fields.

Dr Peng Zhang received his PhD in Applied Chemistry from the Department of Engineering, Osaka University. He also obtained M.Phil in Physical Chemistry from the College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University and B.Sc. in Education of Chemistry, Biological and Chemistry Department, Changzhi University. Currently, he is an Associate professor at the School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University. He has published more than 20 articles in well-reputed journals. His research interests include a) Fabrication and design of hierarchical porous nanomaterials for environment and energy applications, such as photocatalytic treatment of pollutants, hydrogen generation, b) Functionalization of a microfluidic chip for environmental remediation & enzymatic reaction, c) Visible light-activated photocatalysts for (anti-spore activity against bacteria, etc), d) The mechanisms of various chemical reactions at heterogeneous interfaces catalytic reactions via Single-molecule chemistry and Time-resolved laser flash photolysis, and e) Creation of efficient light conversion material starting from the topotactic transformation.

Dr. Haixia Liu received her Successive Postgraduate and Doctoral Program from the Shandong University, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, China. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Qilu University of Technology, China. She is mainly engaged in the research work of solar photodecomposition water, hydrogen production, photocatalytic degradation and solar cells, involving new energy micro-nano materials, semiconductor photocatalytic materials, semiconductor luminescent materials and so on. Moreover, she has contributed her valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr Meicheng Wen received his PhD degree in Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science from the Osaka University. He was a specially appointed Assistant Professor in the Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science at Osaka University in 2016-2017. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, China. His research mainly focuses on the preparation of porous materials and their applications in energy conversion and environmental remediation. He has published 35 research articles in international journals, 1 book chapter, 13 patents, and has been involved in several industrial projects. He also serves as a reviewer for several international journals.

Dr Junpeng Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Jinan. He received his PhD degree in Materials Science from Shandong University, China in 2013. His research is mainly focused on the photoelectrochemical properties of semiconductors and design and fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures and nanocomposites aimed at energy and environmental applications.

Dr. Wei-Kang Wang received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Chemistry, USTC in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Han-Qing Yu. Then, he was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher and worked with Prof. Guohua Zhao in Department of Chemistry, Tongji University from 2017-2019. He is a professor now at the School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, China. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of functional materials, investigation of their photoelectrocatalytic mechanism in energy harvesting and environmental pollutants degradation. He has published 30 research articles in international journals. He also serves as a reviewer for several international journals.

Dr Shiting Wu is a Lecturer at the Hangzhou Dianzi University. She received her PhD degree in Material Science and Engineering from Peking University, China in 2017. Her research interest focuses on the controlled assembly of 1D/2D nanomaterials and carbon nanomaterials for energy storage or conversion. Her research results have been published in Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Small, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Nano Research, and other international journals.

Dr. Feng Li received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. He is currently a discovery early career researcher award (DECRA) fellow in School of Physics at the University of Sydney. He used to work at Sichuan University as an Associate Professor and also at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as a Postdoctoral Fellow. His main research is centered on the characterization of physical properties of functional materials, with the aim for developing diverse high-performance optoelectronic, spintronic, and energy devices.

Dr. Mohan Chandra Mathpal has obtained his Ph.D degree from Department of Physics, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad, India in 2015. He received his M.Phil. degree in Material Science from Annamalai University Tamilnadu, India in 2008 and M.Sc. degree in Physics from C. C. S. University, Meerut in 2006. His current research interest includes plasmonic metamaterials, conducting/semiconducting thin films, graphene based noble metal nanoclusters and composites, dye sensitized solar cells, nitrogen- vacancy (NV) defects in nanodiamonds, heterostructures, sensors, oxides nanomaterials, DMS and magnetic nanostructures, optoelectronics nanomaterials, structural and optical properties of hybrid nanostructures for superior energy harvesting applications.

Dr. Mohan Chandra Mathpal has obtained his Ph.D degree from Department of Physics, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad, India in 2015. He received his M.Phil. degree in Material Science from Annamalai University Tamilnadu, India in 2008 and M.Sc. degree in Physics from C. C. S. University, Meerut in 2006. His current research interest includes plasmonic metamaterials, conducting/semiconducting thin films, graphene based noble metal nanoclusters and composites, dye sensitized solar cells, nitrogen- vacancy (NV) defects in nanodiamonds, heterostructures, sensors, oxides nanomaterials, DMS and magnetic nanostructures, optoelectronics nanomaterials, structural and optical properties of hybrid nanostructures for superior energy harvesting applications.

Prof. Ming Zheng obtained his PhD degree from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. He was awarded a Fellowship by Japan Society for The Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2018. In 2019, he was invited to join China University of Mining and Technology as a full professor. His current research interests include functional thin-film materials and devices. He has authored and co-authored 30 papers, published in internationally reputed journals including NPG Asia Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Nano Energy, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2), Appl. Phys. Lett. (8), Phys. Rev. Applied (2), Phys. Rev. B. He also served as a referee for well-known journals, such as NPG Asia Mater., ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, J. Mater. Chem. C, Adv. Electron. Mater., etc.

Dr. Hassan Soleimani is currently an Associate Professor at the department of fundamental and applied sciences, University Technology PETRONAS, Malaysia. He has obtained a PhD in wave propagation from University Putra Malaysia. He has published more than 120 research articles in peer reviewed International journals with high impact factor apart from conference proceedings. He is a committee member and an organizer of International conference of Diffusion in Solid and Liquids and conducting which is held in Europe yearly.He has been a visiting scientist at the Department of Materials Sciences and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK, Department of Physics, Wright State University, USA, Laboratory of High-Tech Materials University of Patras, Greece and School of Engineering, Griffith University, Australia.

Prof (Dr.) Partha S Mallick is working as a Sr. Professor of Electronics Engineering, in VIT University, India. He was the Dean of School of Electrical Engineering (2011-15). Dr Mallick led various research teams and developed "Online Lab in Microelectronics", "Monte Carlo Simulator of Compound Semiconductors", "Nanostructured MIM Capacitor", "Low cost Electric Fencers" and published 110 research papers in different reputed Journals. Dr Mallick is a reviewer of 12 different Journals of IET, IEEE Transactions, Bentham Science and Elsevier. Dr Mallick is a regular speaker of Elsevier Research Connect Forum, India. He is finding new materials and technology for future nano scale electronics, VLSI circuit engineering and interconnects.

Dr. Xin Chen, is a Professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology in China (ECUST). He got his Ph.D. in Physics at University of Houston. He has worked in Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Houston, Peking University, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he is now a Professor in ECUST. He has some 50 international journals papers, 12 U.S. and China patents, edited/co-edited 3 books. He has got the Sigma Xi Research Achievement Award, NASA Space Act Award, etc. He is currently a Council Member of Shanghai Micrology Society.

Mr. Promod Kumar received his M.Tech. degree in Nanoscience and Technology (NST) in 2010 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Kashmere Gate, New Delhi, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Plasmonics from National Institute of Technology, Hazratbal, Srinagar (J&K), India in 2015. He has also received the best oral presentation award in the National/International Conferences. Promod Kumar is also awarded the certificate of Merit in the National Seminar on Recent Advances On Luminescent Materials (RALM-2015) organized by the department of Chemistry, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar- 608 002, India during January 23-24, 2015. He has published 35 research articles in international journal of repute and presented more than 40 articles in National as well as International conference. He has more than 4 year’s Post-doctoral research experience from University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Presently he is working as a Senior Researcher from the same university and also working as a visiting scientist in Central University of technology, Bloemfontein South Africa. His research interest includes plasmonic metamaterials, conducting- semiconducting thin films, heterostructures, Plasmonic based hybrid nanostructures for SERS applications, Plasmonic Photocatalysts for environmental remediation, Glass doped with Noble metal nanoclusters for Nonlinear optical devices, Graphene based hybrid nanostructures for solar cell applications, sensors, super-capacitor, oxides nanomaterials, DMS and magnetic nanostructures, structural and optical properties of hybrid materials for superior photovoltaic applications.

Dr. Prasanga Gayanath Mantilaka is a Senior Lecturer at Postgraduate Institute of Science (PGIS), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He has published over 120 publications including 35 papers, 70 abstracts in conferences. He has 9 patents for his innovations in nanotechnology and 4 commercialized products in the market. He is a supervisor for 2 PhD, 6 M.Phil.s and over 20 MS students.

Dr. Zhuo Zhang received his Ph.D degree from the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP, Chinese Academy of Sciences) in 2010. From 2014 to 2019, Dr. Zhang focused on the study on nanomaterials for solar energy conversion system at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Currently, he is a Professor in Qufu Normal University, China. His research interests include the design, fabrication and applications of nanomaterials in the field of green energy and environment.

Dr Zhujun Zhang is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Molecular Photo science Research Center, Kobe University. He received his PhD in Chemical Science from Kobe University in March 2020. His scientific research focuses on the design and synthesis of novel metallic nano-catalysts and metal oxide mesocrystals for the production of hydrogen and oxygen. He has published more than 10 papers in refereed journals. His present research interests are focused on the design and synthesis of metal oxide with tunable crystal structure and properties for photo electrochemical processes, such as solar water splitting, H2O2 production, and CO2 reduction.

Dr Shi Xiaowei received his PhD degree from the School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan in 2018. His research interests focus on controllable design and synthesis of functional materials, photocatalytic materials for energy conversion and environmental remediation. His research results have been published in Appl. Catal. B: Environ., Small, J. Mater. Chem. A ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Langmuir and other international journals.

Dr. Xiaoyan Cai is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials, China University of Mining and Technology. She received her Ph.D degree from Beihang University in 2018. Her research interests focus on first-principles calculation and controllable synthesis of functional materials, photocatalytic materials for energy conversion and environmental remediation. She has co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed papers.

Dr. Zaiyong Jiang got his PhD degree in Materials Science in June 2017, from Institute of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, China. Then, he joined Qilu University of Technology. Now, he is an assistant professor of Qilu University of Technology, China. His current research topic covers the preparation and application of semiconductor nanomaterials, such as Bismuth-based nanostructures, TiO 2 and so on, for photocatalysis in pollutant decontamination, water splitting, photoreduction of carbon dioxide, lignin conversion and nitrogen fixation.

Dr. Yuchao Li is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, and a director for laboratory of nanophotonic manipulation. His research interests lie at nanophotonics and biophotonics. Dr. Li has published over 20 academic papers in SCI-indexed journals such as Nature Commun., ACS Nano, Light: Sci. Appl., Adv. Funct. Mater., and has applied for 10 national invention patents. Dr. Li has served as a session chair, organizing committee member and invited reporter at important academic conferences for several times, and he is currently an editorial board member of Journal of Biomaterials. Dr. Li was awarded with the 2019 IAAM Scientific Medal and 2018 Guangdong Provincial First Prize of Science and Technology (5/6).

Zhaoke Zheng is now a Full Professor of State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2012 at Shandong University, and joined Osaka University as JSPS Fellow in 2015. Afterwards, he joined the University of New South Wales as a postdoc and later moved to University of Konstanz as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. He has published over 40 SCI- indexed papers on J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Nano Energy et al., including 6 ESI Highly Cited Papers. These papers received 2559 SCI citations. He was invited to write 2 English academic monographs and invited to give 4 oral talks in international conferences. A number of awards and fellowships have been awarded to him, such as Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowships of Germany, JSPS Researcher of Japan, the Young Scholar of Distinction from the Ministry of Education, the Second-class Award of Science and Technology from Shandong Province and the Second-class Award of the Excellent Achievement from the Ministry of Education, etc.