Prof. Yuezhong Meng

Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Biography: 

Professor Yuezhong Meng studied under Professor Tomlison A11 An S. Hay, a fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom and one of the pioneers of polymer chemistry at McGill University in Canada. He has published 438 SCI-indexed papers, among which 86 have an impact factor greater than 10. There are also over 130 national invention patents and 6 US invention patents. From 2014 to 2021, he/she was consecutively selected as a highly cited Chinese Researcher for eight years, with an H-index of 71. The technology of synthesizing fully biodegradable plastics from carbon dioxide that he has led the research and development of over 20 years is currently being industrialized in five large enterprises, namely Shandong Lianxin Environmental Protection Technology (Taixing) Co., LTD., Sinochem Energy Co., LTD. (Quanzhou Petrochemical), China Coal Xuyang Energy Co., LTD., Hebei Xinnuo Lixing Group Co., LTD., and Guangdong Tianxin New Materials Technology Co., LTD. The technology transfer fee exceeded 200 million yuan.

As the chief scientist, he/she undertook a major directional project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As the project leader, I have undertaken multiple key and exploratory projects of the National 863 Program, key research and development projects of the National Key Research and Development Program, key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, major guiding research projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, outstanding team projects of the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and projects of Guangdong Province More than 60 major projects, including the "Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction" major special project, the key breakthrough technology bidding project in key fields between Guangdong and Hong Kong, and the key projects of the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province and the cooperation projects with enterprises. The total research funds exceed 300 million yuan.

Prof. Zhenyu Zhang

Dalian University of Technology, China

Biography: 

Zhenyu Zhang is a professor at Dalian University of Technology. His main research areas include precision and ultra-precision processing technology, grinding, polishing, additive manufacturing, laser processing technology and equipment, etc. He is a National Special-appointed Professor, the first batch of Young Chang Jiang Scholars of the Ministry of Education, a National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a Dalian Outstanding Youth, a talent at the hundred-level of the Liaoning Province's "Thousand, Hundred, Ten" Talent Program, an outstanding science and technology worker of Liaoning Province, and an outstanding master's thesis supervisor of Liaoning Province. He has won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (innovation team) once (10/15). As the first inventor, he has obtained 60 national invention patents and 6 US patents. As the first or corresponding author, he has published 27 SCI cover articles, including 1 with an impact factor greater than 30 and 14 with an impact factor greater than 10. As the first inventor, he has won one first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of Hainan Province and one first prize of the Innovation Award of the China Association of Industry-University-Research Cooperation. His research results have been applied in key national units such as the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China Ordnance Industry, the Ninth Institute of China Nuclear Industry, and the Ninth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.