Nailiang Yang received his BS degree in Material Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University, China, in 2007. He then obtained his Doctor degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013 under the supervision of Professor Dan Wang. Because of his effort in photoelectric conversion with semiconductor and graphene, he received the award of CAS Excellent Doctoral Dissertations. After graduation, he joined Professor Marie-Paule Pileni’s group as a postdoctoral fellow at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France. His research fields extended to critical synthesis and assembly of metallic nanoparticles, and also the intrinsic properties related to nanocrystallinity. Since 2015, he has been working as a Research Fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in Professor Hua Zhang’s group. His research interests include synthesis and assembly of 2D nanomaterials, and also the intrinsic properties related to crystal phase. Since 2018, he started working in the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS as a full professor. Until now, he has published 35 papers and 1 book, including Nat. Chem., Chem. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Chem, ACS Nano, et al. The total citation is over 3000, with an h-index of 18.

Jiangyan Wang received her BE from the China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing (2010) and PhD from the institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016). She is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. Her current research interests are focused on the design and synthesis of micro- /nano-structured functional inorganic materials and nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage, such as lithium ion batteries and supercapacitors.

Jiawei Wan received his BS degree in physics in 2010 and his PhD in microelectronics and solid state electronics in 2015 from Wuhan University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University. His current research interest is focused on synthesis of nanomaterials and their application in energy device.