Biomimetic Materials, Nanomaterials, Material Chemistry
Shuhong Yu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, New Cornerstone Investigator, Dean of the School of Science at Southern University of Science and Technology, Director of the Joint Research Center for New Materials of USTC-SUSTech, Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and Cheung Kong Scholar of the Ministry of Education.
Dr. Yu has long been engaged in the biomimetic synthesis, assembly, and functional application of inorganic nanomaterials and composites. He has published over 560 papers in academic journals such as Science and Nature Materials, with more than 82,000 citations and an H-index of 158. From 2014 to 2023, he has been consecutively listed among the world's Highly Cited Researchers. As the lead author, he won the State Natural Science Award (Second Class) in 2010 and 2016, the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Second National Innovation Award.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Innovation Materials and Materials Chemistry Frontiers, and serves as an international advisory board member, executive editor, or editorial board member for more than twenty journals, including Accounts of Materials Research, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, National Science Review, and Matter.
Biomimetic Materials - The Frontier of Interdisciplinary Science
In recent years, biomimetic materials science has increasingly attracted the attention of the scientific community. Various natural materials such as pearls, oyster shells, coral, ivory, animal teeth, magnetic crystals in bacteria, and human bones are typical examples of biominerals produced by biological organisms on different scales. Inspired by these biological materials, the biomimetic synthesis pathways to design and create functionally complex materials with multiscale structures similar to biominerals have become a hotspot at the frontier of interdisciplinary research involving chemistry, nanoscience, materials science, and life sciences. This report will summarize our research progress over the years in using biomimetic concepts to design and prepare a series of biomimetic materials and macroscopic assemblies. It will also discuss how to conduct pioneering research in multidisciplinary intersections and how to enhance the cultivation of interdisciplinary talents and the integration of multiple disciplines, exploring new approaches for the creation of novel biomimetic materials.
