The special issue collection includes work published in seven of our leading Materials Journals and it was edited by Dr Dong Wang, Professor Wantai Yang and Professor Liqun Zhang.
This year the college of Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) celebrated its diamond anniversary. When the BUCT was founded in 1958, the CMSE was established to meet the demand of advanced materials for the development of national economics, being one of the top-rated academic and research institutions devoted to macromolecular science and engineering in China. After 60-year development, CMSE has grown to be one of the largest academic centers for materials research in the world, especially for polymeric materials.
The faculty members in CMSE have expanded rapidly in recent decades, and their research interests now encompass many fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, and chemical engineering. With the integration of emerging areas of biomaterials, computational simulation, nanoscience, biotechnology, and green technology, the academic activities in CMSE are developing towards more interdisciplinary and crossing the boundaries between different industrial sectors and thus have been proved to be fruitful.
Elsevier would like to thank the researchers for publishing their excellent work in our journals and to wish the department every success for the future!
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Dong Wang received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2008 from Tsinghua University. He was a Research Associate at the Tohoku University (2008−2011), an Assistant Professor (2011-2015) at the same institution, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2012-2013). Since 2015, he has been a full professor in the College of Material Sciences and Engineering at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. His current research focuses on the study of polymer surface and interface using atomic force microscopy (AFM) based techniques.
Wantai Yang is a professor in the College of Materials Science and Engineering at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He received his B.S. from Tsinghua University (1982), M.S. from BUCT (1985) and Ph.D. from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (1993-1996). He worked as a faculty of CMSE since 1985 and was elected as an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. His research interest includes chemistry of photo-induced C-H bond transformation, controlled radical polymerization, surface and interfacial chemistry of organic materials, fabricating bio-chip and encapsulating enzyme, surface and interfacial of inorganic and organic materials. He had been the dean of CMSE from 2005 to 2016 and has been the director of Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials from 2013.
Liqun Zhang is a professor in the College of Materials Science and Engineering at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He received his B.S. (1990), M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1995) from BUCT. Since 1995, he has been a faculty of CMSE. He worked as a Visiting Scholar in University of Akron (1990-2000) and as a postdoc in Case Western Reserve University (2000-2001). His research interest includes rubber science and engineering, polymer nanocomposites, bio-based and biomedical materials, polymer processing engineering etc. He has been the dean of CMSE since 2016, director of Key Lab of Beijing City on Preparation and Processing of Novel Polymer Materials, director of Engineering Center for Energy Saving and Resource Utilization of Elastomer Materials, Ministry of Education, and vice-director of State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites.