Lianzhou Wang is Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow in School of Chemical Engineering, Director of Nanomaterials Centre (Nanomac), and Senior Group Leader of Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, the University of Queensland (UQ). His research focuses on the design and application of semiconductor nanomaterials for renewable energy conversion/storage applications including photocatalytsts for solar hydrogen production, low cost solar cells and batteries. He has contributed 15 edited books and chapters, > 400 journal publications, and 17 patents, with >24000 citations. He won some prestigious Fellowships/awards including ARC QEII Fellowship, Future Fellowship and Laureate Fellowship, UQ Research Excellence Award and Research Supervision Award, Scopus Young Researcher Award, RACI Research Excellence Award in Chemical Engineering. He is the fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and was named in the list of the Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers.

Dr. Yanfa Yan has held the Ohio Research Scholar Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Toledo, USA since 2011 and is a faculty member in the Ohio's Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC). Previously, he was a Principal Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA. Dr. Yan's expertise includes theoretical study of electronic properties and defect physics of semiconductors and nano scale characterization of microstructures, interfaces, and defects in thin-film photovoltaic materials. Dr. Yan is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Heesun Yang, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Hongik University. Yang received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Florida and master/bachelor degrees in Ceramic Engineering at Yonsei University in Korea. Following his Ph.D. studies, he conducted two-year postdoctoral research at University of Florida. And then, he joined Hongik University in 2006. Over 20 years he dedicated his all efforts to synthesis of fluorescent quantum dots with various semiconductor compositions of II-VI, III-V, and I-III-VI families and their applications to optoelectronic devices.

Jiangzhao Chen is currently a professor at College of Optoelectronic Engineering in Chongqing University. He is a member of the “100 People Plan” of Chongqing University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Chemistry from Northeast Forestry University in July 2011 and in Optical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in June 2016, respectively. From September 2016 to February 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Nam-Gyu Park’s group at School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University. From March 2019 to November 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Wallace C. H. Choy’s group at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. He has long been engaged in the research of new thin film solar cells. Focusing on the key technical indicators of power conversion efficiency, stability, cost and other key scientific and technical issues faced by new thin film solar cells, the devices are systematically studied and explored from the aspects of material design and synthesis, device preparation and performance optimization, fine regulation of semiconductor physical properties, solvent engineering, additive molecular engineering, surface interface molecular engineering, mechanism analysis, etc. A series of technical bottlenecks faced by the commercial application of such solar cells have been broken through and a series of innovative and important research results have been achieved. Up to now, he has published 41 SCI academic papers in international well-known journals such as Science and Advanced Materials, which have been cited for more than 4000 times. h index is 19 and i10 index is 26. Among them, 35 SCI papers have been published as the first, co-first or corresponding author. 4 papers have been selected as ESI highly cited papers. 1 paper has been selected as ESI Hot Paper. The maximum number of citations in a single article exceeds 200. 9 papers have been cited more than 100 times. 19 papers have impact factors greater than 10, including Advanced Materials (4), Advanced Energy Materials (3), ACS Energy Letters (3), Nano Energy (1), Small Methods (2), Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2), Chemical Engineering Journal (3), and Green Chemistry (1). 5 invention patents have been applied. He presided over or participated in the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chongqing Natural Science Foundation of China, Korea National Research Foundation, Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, Overseas Returnees Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Plan, Chongqing University hundred Talents Plan research start-up fund and horizontal fund. He has made 10 invited reports in important academic conferences at home and abroad, such as China Materials Conference. As the chairman/co-chairman of the sub-conference, he successfully held the "National Conference on Energy Materials and Devices", "the third International Conference on Clean Energy Materials and Technology", "the third Western Conference on Materials" and other international and domestic academic conferences. He is a long-time reviewer of more than 10 international famous journals, mainly including Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Energy Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Energy Chemistry, etc. He currently serves on the editorial board of Science Frontiers and Chemistry and Chemical Research journals, guest editor of Materials Reports: Energy journal, standing member of expert Committee on Energy Materials and Devices, and project evaluation and consulting expert of Science and Technology Innovation Alliance of Chengdu and Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle.

Dr. Yiwang Chen is a full professor of Chemistry at Nanchang University and Jiangxi Normal University. He received his Ph. D from Peking University in 1999 and conducted his postdoctoral work at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany as awarded an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. He joined the Nanchang University in 2004. He has been honored by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2014. Currently he is serving as a Vice-president of Jiangxi Normal University since 2019 and director of Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC) at Nanchang University since 2004. He has ever been Dean of the College of Chemistry at Nanchang University since 2009-2019. His research interests include polymer solar cells, perovskite solar cells, supercapacitor, electrocatalysis for zinc-air batteries, and intelligent elastomer. He has published more than 400 research papers and 30 invention patents as well as 4 books. His research project has been awarded “second class prize of science and technology in universities of China” in 2019.

Yongbo Yuan is a Professor in the Hunan Key Laboratory of Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process and the School of Physics and Electronics in Central South University (CSU). He got his B.S. degree of physics in 2004 and Ph.D. degree of condensed matter physics in 2009 from Zhongshan University. He then joined Prof. Jinsong Huang’s research group at University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a postdoctor in 2009. He joined CSU in 2016 as full Professor. His current research interests include perovskite/ polymer solar cells, organic thin film transistors and hybrid photodetectors. He had published more than 50 scientific papers with citations over 10000 and H-index of 35. He was listed as “Highly Cited Researchers”by Thomson Reuters in 2018 and 2019.