Chinese Chemical Letters  2018, Vol. 29 Issue (3): 343-344   PDF    
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Zhixun Luo, Zhenzhong Yang. A special column highlighting young scientists at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS)[J]. Chin. Chem. Lett., 2018, 29(3): 343-344  
A special column highlighting young scientists at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS)
Zhixun Luo, Zhenzhong Yang    
Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Author: Zhixun Luo received his PhD degree in 2009 from Prof. Jiannian Yao's group at ICCAS. He then joined Prof. Castleman's group in PennState, exploring stable cluster species as well as cluster reactivity. In 2013, he worked as professor in the State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, ICCAS. His research focuses on atomic& molecular clusters and the assembled materials. Prof. Luo was supported by the National Thousand Youth Talents Program in 2015, and Outstanding Youth Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation in 2017. He was awarded Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016;
Zhenzhong Yang received B.S. in 1991 from Tsinghua University, M.S. in 1994 from Jilin University, and PhD degree in 1997 from ICCAS. In 1997, he worked as postdoc at BASF, Ludwigshafen. He was promoted full professor from associate professor in 2003 ICCAS. Now he is the director of State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, ICCAS. He ever served as secretary general, Chinese Chemical Society (28th). He was selected as leading expert (National High-level Personnel Special Support Program (2016)). He served as the chief scientist of the energy conservation related project of Ministry of Science and Technology (2013). In 2013, he was awarded the National Prize of Natural Science, Second Class.
Corresponding author. E-mail address: zxluo@iccas.ac.cn (Z. Luo) .

Just seeing off the 60th anniversary of the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), we are here with pleasure to conduct A Special Column for Young Scientists at ICCAS published in Chinese Chemistry Letters (CCL) endeavoring to disseminate positive energy of several enthusiastic chemists and spread their recent research to the global scientific community.

The CCL is an official journal of the Chinese Chemical Society, founded in July 1990. CCL is a peer reviewed journal that provides access to the current research and covers latest advancements in all areas of chemistry including inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, polymer chemistry, applied chemistry, etc., satisfying a real and urgent need for the dissemination of research results, especially hot topics.

Known as a multi-disciplinary research institute dedicated to the basic research in broad fields of chemical sciences, ICCAS aim at key developments of innovative technologies according to imperative national needs and important strategic targets, as well as collaborative applications and transformation of scientific research results. Since its establishment, the high impact scientific spiritsof senior research scientists and the increased number of young scientists have created a good atmosphere continuously promoting the strength and capability of ICCAS for innovative basic research. ICCAS is one of China's leading chemistry research institutions with high international reputation.

The major research areas of ICCAS include polymer science, physical chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, and inorganic chemistry, with focuses on a few frontiers of molecular/ cluster and nanosciences, organic and polymeric materials, chemical biology, as well as energy and green chemistry. While not all researchers at ICCAS have contributed to this special columnin CCL, it is an honor to highlight the contributions by ten scientists who work on a few of the aforementioned research fields. We arrange them into 5 topics as shown below. Hopefully it sheds light on one corner of young scientists at ICCAS and brings forth broad interest to CCL readers.

Enjoy reading!

● Polymers:

•  Tian-Hao Han, Fu-Xin Liang*, Zhen-Zhong Yang*, Cable-like Au@SiO2 Janus composite nanorods, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2017.06.003.

•  Desheng Li, Jingfa Yang, Jiang Zhao*, Positioning a fluorescent probe at the core of a glassy star polymer for detection of local dynamics, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2017.07.010.

•  Shan Jiang*, Wei Wang, Yonghong Ding, Qiang Yu, Li Yao, Preparation and characterization of antibacterial microporous membranes fabricated by poly(AMS-co-DMAEMA) grafted polypropylene via melt-stretching method, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2018.01.006.

•  Huihui Ren, Yang Cui, Ailing Li, Dong Qiu*, Bioactive glass sol as a dual function additive for chitosan-alginate hybrid scaffold, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2018.01.023.

● Solar cells:

•   Wenxu Liu, Weiping Li, Jiannian Yao, Chuanlang Zhan*, Achieving high short-circuit current and fill-factor via increasing quinoidal character on nonfullerene small molecule acceptor, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2017.11.018.

•  Yiting Guo, Andong Zhang, Cheng Li*, Weiwei Li*, Daoben Zhu, A near-infrared porphyrin-based electron acceptor for non-fullerene organic solar cells, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2017.08.006.

● Clusters & molecular aggregates:

•  Yifan Chen, Juan Qiao, Qianrong Liu, Li Qi*, Ovalbumin-stabilized gold nanoclusters with ascorbic acid as reducing agent for detection of serum copper, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2017.10.014.

•  Pan An, Longtian Kang, Zhen Tang, Peifeng Su*, Zhixun Luo*, Spectroscopic identification towards tunable mesoscale aggregates of zinc tetraphenylporphyrin for materials, doi.org/ 10.1016/j.cclet.2017.11.009.

● Electrochemical & spectroscopy:

•  Jun Feng, Jiang-Yang Shao, Hai-Jing Nie, Zhong-Liang Gong, YuWu Zhong*, Synthesis and electrochemical and spectroscopic studies of a N, N, N', N'-tetraphenylbenzidine-bridged bis(2, 2'-bipyridine) ligand and diruthenium complex, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2017.11.014.

•  Yiyi Li, Rongjuan Feng, Lu Lin, Minghua Liu, Yuan Guo*, Zhen Zhang*, Ordering effects of cholesterol on sphingomyelin monolayers investigated by high-resolution broadband sumfrequency generation vibrational spectroscopy, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2017.11.006.

● Chemical engineering:

•   Yin Wang*, Congyang Wang*, Recent advances of rhenium separation and enrichment in China: Industrial processes and laboratory trials, doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2018.01.001.