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Professor Chunli Bai is Executive Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and President of the Graduate School of CAS with more than 30,000 students. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Peking University in 1978 and received his MS and PhD degrees from CAS Institute of Chemistry in 1981 and 1985, respectively. From 1985-1987, he was at Caltech, US, for advanced study, conducting research work in the field of physical chemistry as a post-doctorate associate and visiting scholar. After his return home in 1987, he continued his research at CAS Institute of Chemistry. From 1991 to 1992, he was a visiting professor at Tohoku University in Japan. His research areas involve the structure and properties of polymer catalysts, X-ray crystallography of organic compounds, molecular mechanics and EXAFS research on electro-conducting polymers. In the mid-1980s, he shifted his research orientation to the field of scanning tunneling microscopy, and molecular nanotechnology.

Professor Jie Liu is the Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Chemistry at Duke University, NC, USA. Professor Liu received his BS degree from Shandong University in 1987 and completed his PhD at Harvard University before undertaking a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rice University between 1996 and 1999. His research interests include controlled growth of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) for nanoelectronics, the synthesis, purification and applications of few walled carbon nanotubes (FWNTs), the optical properties of ZnO nanostructures and the study of microporous carbon (MPC) materials for energy applications.

Professor Wei Lu is an associate professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. He received B.S. degree in physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996, and Ph.D. in physics from Rice University, Houston, TX in 2003. From 2003 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He joined the faculty of UM in 2005. His research interest includes high-density memory and logic devices based on two-terminal resistive switches (memristors), growth and applications of semiconductor nanowires and nanowire heterostructures, and electrical transport in low-dimensional systems. He is a member of the ITRS Emerging Research Device working group and a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.

Professor Markus Niederberger has been Chair of the Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials at ETH Zürich since January 2007. Born June 10, 1970 in Switzerland, Markus Niederberger studied chemistry at ETH Zürich, where he also received his PhD on nanostructured metal oxides in the group of Prof. R. Nesper in 2000. After a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. G. D. Stucky at the University of California at Santa Barbara, in 2002 he became group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam in the Colloid Department of Prof. M. Antonietti. The Niederberger group works on the synthesis and characterization of inorganic nanomaterials with a strong focus on metal oxide nanoparticles. Using reaction principles from organic chemistry the Niederberger group tries to develop rational synthesis strategies to inorganic functional materials under mild reaction conditions and with control over particle size, shape and assembly behavior. The long term research goal is the development of general concepts for the fabrication of complex architectures, made up of nanocrystalline components that are hierarchically ordered by specific interactions between the nanoparticle building blocks.

Professor Francesco Stellacci is Paul M. Cook Career Development Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA. Professor Stellacci has research interests in nanoscience and nanotechnology, specifically in the investigation of the structure-property relationships that exist between nanostructured molecular assemblies and their surface properties. His research focuses on the generation of new understanding on the assembly of molecules in spatially defined arrangements and their interactions with organic and bio molecules and with inorganic surfaces. The goal is to apply this knowledge toward the development and the efficient fabrication of original nano-size molecular-based materials and devices for a wealth of applications. In order to build such devices, Stellacci's group is developing new materials (organic ligand coated nanoparticles and nanotubes), and new soft-materials fabrication techniques (based on molecular recognition and self-assembly). A specific example is the discovery of novel materials whose outside shell spontaneously assembles in ways that resemble the structuring of domains on viruses' capsids. Another example is the development of a nature-inspired stamping technique able to transfer DNA patterns from a surface onto another. This method has been tailored for the efficient production of inexpensive DNA micro- and nano-arrays. A special emphasis in the group is placed on the understanding of the nanoscale limitation of present thermodynamic modeling of surface interactions.

Jianfang Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics  at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1993 and received his MS and PhD degrees from Peking University (1996) and Harvard University (2002), respectively. Jianfang was appointed Associate Editor of Nanoscale in September 2009.

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