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Jun Chen is the Chair Professor of energy materials chemistry at Nankai University, the Director of Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), a Chief Scientist of the National Nano Key Science Research, and the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Electrochemistry. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Nankai University in 1989 and 1992 respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wollongong (Australia) in 1999. He held the NEDO fellowship at the National Institute of AIST Kansai Center (Japan) from 1999 to 2002. His research activity focuses on nanomaterials, electrochemistry, batteries, fuel cells and solar cells with efficient energy storage & conversion. He has published over 150 journal papers and has strong links with industry. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Eward Wicke Award (International Metal Hydride Committee, 2002), the Outstanding Young Scientist Award (NSFC, 2003), the Cheung Kong Scholar Professor (MOE, 2005), the National Natural Science Award (2nd prize, 2011), and the Australia China Alumni Award for Research and Innovation (ACAA, 2012).

Professor Chen’s recent papers include:

Magnesium–air batteries: from principle to application
Tianran Zhang, Zhanliang Tao and Jun Chen  
Mater. Horiz., 2014, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C3MH00059A

Arylamine organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells
Mao Liang and Jun Chen  
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 3453-3488 DOI: 10.1039/C3CS35372A

Efficient hydrogen storage with the combination of lightweight Mg/MgH2 and nanostructures
Fangyi Cheng, Zhanliang Tao, Jing Liang and Jun Chen  
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 7334-7343 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC30740E

Metal–air batteries: from oxygen reduction electrochemistry to cathode catalysts
Fangyi Cheng and Jun Chen  
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 2172-2192 DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15228A

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Yoshio Bando received a Ph.D. degree at Osaka University in 1975 and joined the National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (now National Institute for Materials Science, NIMS) in the same year.  He is now a Fellow of NIMS and a Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA). From 1979 to 1981, he was a visiting scientist at the Arizona State University, USA.  He served as a Professor of Tsukuba University from 1992 to 2008.  Since 2008, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Waseda University.

Yoshio Bando has received a number of awards including the 3rd Thomson Reuters Research Front Award (2012), the 16th Tsukuba Prize (2005), Academic Awards from the Japanese Ceramic Society (1997) and the Seto Award from the Japanese Society for Electron Microscopy (1994).  He is now an adjunct member of the Science Council of Japan and also a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society.  He has been selected as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science.

Professor Bando’s current research concentrates on the synthesis and properties of novel inorganic 1D/2D nanomaterials and their in-situ TEM analysis. His recent papers include:

Controlled synthesis of patterned W₁₈O₄₉ nanowire vertical-arrays and improved field emission performance by in situ plasma treatment
Fei Liu, Tongyi Guo, Zhuo Xu, Haibo Gan, Lifang Li, Jun Chen, Shaozhi Deng, Ningsheng Xu, Dmitri Golberg and Yoshio Bando
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1, 3217-3225 DOI: 10.1039/C3TC30340C

Ultrathin nanoporous Fe₃O₄–carbon nanosheets with enhanced supercapacitor performance
Dequan Liu, Xi Wang, Xuebin Wang, Wei Tian, Jiangwei Liu, Chunyi Zhi, Deyan He, Yoshio Bando and Dmitri Golberg
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1, 1952-1955 DOI: 10.1039/C2TA01035F

Cobalt(II,III) oxide hollow structures: fabrication, properties and applications
Xi Wang, Wei Tian, Tianyou Zhai, Chunyi Zhi, Yoshio Bando and Dmitri Golberg
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 23310-23326 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM33940D, Feature Article

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Seth R. Marder obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985.  After postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, and a National Research Council Resident Research Assoc. at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he became a member of the Technical Staff at the JPL.  In 1998, he moved to the University of Arizona where he was a Professor of Chemistry and Optical Sciences.  In 2003, he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology where he is currently a Regents’ Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (courtesy).  He was appointed Georgia Power Chair in Energy Efficiency in January 2010.

Dr. Marder was a founding director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and is the Co-Director of the NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Georgia Tech.  He is a recipient of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and Fellow of the Optical Society of America, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), American Physical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  His research interests are in the development of materials for nonlinear optics, applications of organic dyes for photonic, display, electronic and medical applications, and organometallic chemistry.

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