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Bio-inspired, smart, multi-scale interfacial materials

Water conference 2010

Proferssor Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhongguancun North First Street 2#, 100190 Beijing, P.R. China Tel: (+86) 10-8262-1396 (lab); fax: (+86) 10-8262-7566; E-mail: jianglei@iccas.ac.cn Personal Home Page: http://fim.iccas.ac.cn/

Educational Background

Ph. D. Physical chemistry, Jilin Universtiy of China & Tokyo University of Japan, 1994 M.S. Physical chemistry, Jilin University of China, 1990 B.S. Solid state physics, Jilin University of China, 1987

1999-Present Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science

1996-1999 Researcher, Kanagawa Academy of Sciences and Technology, Hashimoto’s project

1994-1996 Postdoctoral fellow, Akira Fujishima’s group in Tokyo University

Fellowships and Visiting Professorships:

1. Visiting Professor, Drexel University (USA) 2. Part-time Professor, Peking University University (China) 3. Part-time Professor (Doctoral Advisor), Jilin University (China)

Honors, Organizations and Awards:

1. Member of the Editorial Board, Advanced Functional Materials 2. Member of the Editorial Board, Small 3. Member of the Editorial Board, Biomicrofluidics 4. Member of the Editorial Board, Nano Research 5. Member of the Editorial Board, Asia Materials 6. Asian Editor of Solid State Sciences 7. Member of the Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 8. National Natural Science Award (2nd grade, 2005) 9. The First-prize for Science and Technology Award of Beijing Province (2005) 10. National Thousands of Experts Project in the New Century (2004) 11. China Youth Science and Tecnology Prize (2004) 12. Chinese Chemical Society-BASF Innovation Award (2004) 13. National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2001) 14. Chemistry Prize for Youth Chemist by Chinese Chemical Society (2000) 15. One of Ten Outstanding Youth Person in The Chinese Academy of Sciences (2000) 16. 100 Talents Programme of The Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999)

Main Research Field:

1. Structural Effect on Wettabilitys of Natural Materials To reveal the relationship between the special wettability and the unique micro- or nanostructures of organism surfaces in nature (lotus leaves, rice leaves, water-strider’s legs, cicada wings, butterfly wings, et al.). 2. Design and Fabrication of Bio-Inspired Surfaces with Special Wettability To construct hierarchical micro- and nanostructures through physical or chemical method, and adjust the surface free energy, reach the special wettability (superhydrophilicity, superoleophilicity, superhydrophobicity, or superoleophobicity). 3. Bio-Inspired, Smart Interfacial Materials To focus on the design and fabrication of smart interfacial materials (thermo-, photo-, electro-, pH-, solvent-, or stress-responsive, et al). For example, under certain circumstances, a surface wettability can switch between superhydrophilicity and superhydrophobicity, just like in Chinese ancient Taiji philosophy that “Yin” and “Yang”, the two opposing fundamental properties of nature, are switchable. 4. Ion Channels To construct responsive nanopore channels and nanocompartment through the assembly of functional DNA molecules. This may be used to develop remotely tunable controlled release of small molecules through DNA channels, which has great potential in drug delivery and nanomedicine.