2017 Ph.D. in Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, USA
Thesis: Bio-inspired melanin-based structural colors through self-assembly
Advisors: Ali Dhinojwala, Director, H.A. Morton Professor in Polymer Science
Matthew D. Shawkey, Associate Professor in Biology
2012 B.S. in Polymer Materials and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
2021-now Professor, College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
2017-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA
Advisor: Vinothan N. Manoharan, Wagner Family Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Physics
2016-2016 Visiting PhD student, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
2011-2012 Exchange Study, Organic Chemistry, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Academic Recognitions
Editor’s pick paper in Applied Physical Letter, 2020
NORA Meets BASF Challenges Poster Competition, the second prize, 2020
Cover page paper in Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2018
NORA Meets BASF Challenges Poster Award, 2018
Global Youth Ideas Competition, the first prize, 2018
An ESI highly cited paper, 2017
ACS Editors' Choice article in ACS Nano, 2015
One of the 20 most read papers of the year in ACS Nano, 2015
Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Lotus Project Scholarship, 2011
National Scholarship (GPA rank 1/256), 2010
National Aspiration Scholarship, 2009
Travel Awards
Graduate Student Government Professional Enrichment Grant, 2015 & 2016
Department of Polymer Science Travel Award, 2015 & 2016
“Design and fabrication of bioinspired hierarchical structurally colored materials”, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China (04/2023)
“Structurally colored supraballs based on non-photonic crystals”, 18th Chinese Conference on Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Xi’an, China (04/2023)
“Bioinspired hierarchical structurally colored materials”, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China (08/2022)
“Novel electrochromic materials based on structural colors and dielectric elastomers”, 5th Chinese Meeting on Electrochromism, Hangzhou, China (08/2022)
“Bio-inspired structurally colored materials” Microscopy & Microanalysis 2021 Meeting, Pittsburg, PA (08/2021)
“A novel wide-angle display based on a dielectric elastomer actuator that uses buckling to change colors”, Mathias Kolle Group at MIT, Virtual (11/2020)
“Bioinspired design, engineering, and manufacturing of sustainable photonic materials”, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA (02/2020)
“Understanding, optimizing and designing structural colors towards applications”, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA (02/2020)
“Design, fabrication, and application in angle-independent structural colors”, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA (09/2019)
“Bio-Inspired melanin-based structural colors”, BASF Corporation, NJ (10/2017); University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (07/2017); University of California, San Diego, CA (06/2017); Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (06/2016)