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Founding Editor-in-Chief: Academician Zhonglin Wang
Academician Zhonglin Wang, Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chair Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Distinguished Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Wang is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the 2023 Global Energy Prize, the 2019 Albert Einstein World Award of Science, the 2018 ENI Award (considered the "Nobel Prize" of the energy sector), the 2015 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate Award, the 2014 American Physical Society James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials, the 2013 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China, and the 2011 Materials Research Society Medal, among others.
He is a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, an International Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the founding editor-in-chief and current editor-in-chief of Nano Energy, a renowned journal in the field of nanoscale energy research. Academician Wang is a pioneer in the field of nanoenergy research. He has developed high-entropy energy systems and a new energy paradigm based on nanoenergy, pioneered self-powered systems based on nanogenerators, and the vast field of blue energy, as well as a new field based on the piezoelectric and piezo-phototronic effects of third-generation semiconductors. He established the disciplines of piezoelectric electronics, piezo-phototronics, and triboelectronics, and discovered six new physical effects: piezoelectric electronic effect, piezo-phototronic effect, piezo-photonic effect, triboelectric effect, thermally stimulated luminescence electronic effect, and alternating current photovoltaic effect. He is ranked among the top three scientists globally in terms of lifetime influence, with 110 articles published in Nature, Science, and their subsidiary journals, with nearly 400,000 citations and an h-index of nearly 300.
Executive Editor-in-Chief: Professor Yanglong Hou
Yanglong Hou, Ph.D., is the Dean and Chair Professor of the School of Materials Science at Sun Yat-sen University, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of "Rare Metals" (English Edition). He also serves as a council member and Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), Vice Chairman of the Nanomaterials and Devices Branch of the Chinese Materials Research Society (CMRS), and Chairman of the Imaging Materials and Technology Branch of the Chinese Society for Biomaterials (CSBM). His research focuses on the controlled synthesis of multifunctional magnetic materials and new energy materials, as well as their applications in the fields of nanobiomedicine and energy. He has published over 260 academic papers, cited more than 29,000 times, with an H-index of 95. He holds 16 patent applications, 12 of which have been granted, and has received one Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award. He has been invited to deliver keynote or session speeches at over a hundred international and bilateral conferences. He has received awards such as the "Second National Innovation Award," "National High-level Talents Special Support Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship," and "National Excellent Science and Technology Worker."
Executive Editor-in-Chief: Professor Zhou Li
Zhou Li, Ph.D., doctoral supervisor, National Funds for Distinguished Young youths, is the Director of the Laboratory at the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, a member of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Society of Biotechnology, and the Deputy Chairman of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Society of Life Electronics. He is also the Director of the Biomedical and Environmental Platform at the Institute of Nanoenergy, as well as the Director of the Nanomaterials Energy Teaching and Research Office at the School of Nanoscience and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Professor Li's main research focuses on implanted/wearable electronic medical devices, self-powered medical devices, biosensors, degradable medical devices, and cellular biomechanics. He has published over 140 papers in journals such as Nature Rev. Cardiology, Nature Comm., and Science Adv., with a total impact factor exceeding 1400. Among these, he is the first/corresponding author of more than 110 papers, with an impact factor exceeding 10, and has published 56 first/corresponding author SCI papers identified as ESI hotspots and highly cited papers. His work has been cited over 7,000 times, with an H-index of 45, and 10 papers have been cited over 200 times.
He has received awards such as the Beijing Science and Technology Award, the Young Scientist Award from the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), the Young Scientist Award from Fuji Visual Sonics, the Outstanding Science and Technology Worker Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Gold Award from the China Invention Association, and the First Prize in the Youth Paper Competition at the Biomedical Engineering Conference. He serves as Associate Editor for Nano Select (Wiley), Associate Editor for Smart Materials in Medicine (KeAi), Editorial Board Member for Science Bulletin, Life Science Instruments, and Sensors and Actuators Report, as well as Guest Editor-in-Chief for journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, InfoMat, and Materials. He is also a nominee for the Tencent Foundation's "Exploration Award" and a special expert reviewer for innovative medical devices at CFDA. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for more than 70 international journals. He has received support from over 20 funds, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Science and Technology Commission of the Central Military Commission, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, and Huawei Technologies.
