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Prof. Jinlong Yang is a full professor of chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1991 from USTC. He was awarded Outstanding Youth Foundation of China in 2000, selected as Changjiang Scholars Program Chair Professor in 2001 and as a fellow of American Physical Society (APS) in 2011. He is the second awardee of the 2005’s National Award for Natural Science (the second prize) and the awardee (principal contributor) of the 2014’s Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His research mainly focuses on the development of first-principles methods and their application to clusters, nanostructures, solid materials, surfaces, and interfaces.
Prof. Tongwen Xu is a full professor of chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his Bachelor’s degree in 1989 and Master’s degree in 1992 from Hefei University of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. degree of Chemical Engineering in 1995 from Tianjin University. He was a short-term visiting scientist of University of Tokyo and Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. He received a Brain Pool Program from Korea (2006) and worked one year in Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. He was awarded Outstanding Youth Foundation of China in 2010, selected as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013 and as Changjiang Scholars Program Chair Professor in 2014. Currently, he is working on materials chemical engineering especially on ion exchange membrane materials and the related applications. He has held 60 patents and published 400 SCI papers with over 10000 citations and H-index 54.
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Yang, J., Xu, T. Preface: celebrating the 60th anniversary of the University of Science and Technology of China. Sci. China Chem. 61, 1043–1044 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-018-9336-7
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