Prof

Feng Bai                        🎓︎

Henan University, China

BIO:                       

Professor Feng Bai is a doctoral supervisor and a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund (2014). Since May 2023, he has served as the Executive Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering.

Prof. Bai has received numerous prestigious honors and awards, including the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund (NSFC, 2014), the 18th "May Fourth" Youth Medal of Henan Province, the Outstanding Talent in High-tech Innovation of Henan Province, the Expert with Special Government Allowance of Henan Province, the Science and Technology Leader of Henan Province, the Outstanding Expert of Henan Province, the Second Prize of Henan Provincial Natural Science Award, and the R&D 100 Awards, among others.

He has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of five projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and five key projects at the provincial and ministerial levels. He has been invited to deliver over 10 plenary/invited talks at major international and domestic academic conferences, including those organized by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Materials Research Society (MRS), the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), and China Nano. Additionally, he has served as a session chair at seven sessions of the MRS Spring Meeting and the ACS Spring Meeting held in the United States.

Prof

Guofa Cai                        🎓︎

Henan University, China

BIO:                        

Professor Guofa Cai is a doctoral supervisor and a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund. He holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Henan Province and serves as the Deputy Dean of the Institute of Flexible Electronics Industrial Technology at Henan University. He is also an Academic and Technical Leader of the Education Department of Henan Province, and the Vice Director and Secretary-General of the Electrochromic Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Imaging Science and Technology.

Prof. Cai has been consecutively named to Stanford University's list of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world for the years 2022 and 2023 (annual influence ranking). He was awarded the 27th Henan Youth May Fourth Medal, the "YOUNG LEADER" award from the Society for Information Display (SID), and the IAAM Young Scientist Medal from the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). He received his Ph.D. in Materials Processing Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2014. From 2014 to 2019, he conducted postdoctoral research at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Currently, he works at the School of Nanoscience and Materials Engineering, Henan University, and is affiliated with the Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials of the Ministry of Education and the National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Efficient Lighting and Display. His research focuses on electrochromic nanomaterials and large-scale multifunctional devices. He has published 53 SCI papers as first/corresponding author (out of a total of 76) in journals such asScience Advances,Advanced Energy Materials,ACS Energy Letters,Nano Energy, andAccounts of Chemical Research. His work has been highlighted inNature Materials andNature Energy. He has 10 ESI highly cited papers, and his papers have received over 7,500 citations (with a maximum of over 890 for a single paper), excluding self-citations. Prof. Cai has led three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and holds 7 authorized international and domestic invention patents.