Bai Feng, born in August 1976, is a professor and doctoral supervisor. He is the winner of the Excellent Youth Fund of National Foundation of China. In 2005, he graduated from The Institute of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Nankai University. He has been engaged in post-doctoral research in Tsinghua University and The University of New Mexico. He was employed as the Yellow River Scholar of Henan University in September 2010 and is now the deputy director of the Key Lab of Special Functional Materials, Ministry of Education in Henan University.
For many years, Bai Feng has been engaged in the synthesis of self-assembled units, the preparation of self-assembled nanomaterials and the systematic research on their properties, and has made a series of innovative achievements, with certain characteristics and advantages. Currently, he is in charge of one general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and one Outstanding Youth Fund of the National Foundation of China, and have been approved the Science and Technology Innovation Talent Support Plan for Colleges and universities by the Education Department of Henan Province. Since 2004, he has published 35 SCI academic papers in journals like Nano Lettes (3 papers), Angee.Chem. Inter. Ed. (1 paper), ACS Nano (1 paper), Advanced Materials (1 paper) and other international famous journals as the first author or corresponding author. All these papers have been cited more than 1,200 times and the H-index is 21. He has been authorized 6 Chinese/US invention patents. He has won the R&D 100 Awards with the “Oscar for Science and Technology Innovation” (ranked third).
Professor Bai’s main academic research focuses on the following aspects: first, controllable supramolecular self-assembly and application; Controlled co-assembly of porphyrins was achieved by acid-base neutralization/micellar limiting and microemulsion assisted/mesoporous transfer. Monodispersed porphyrins nanodisks with multiple pore structures and one-dimensional porous nano-materials with controllable size were prepared. Second, a general method for the assembly of single dispersed nanocrystals has been developed, namely the EBS (Emulsion based bottom-up self-assembly) assembly strategy, which realizes the three-dimensional self-assembly of different colloidal crystals. The self-assembly has been applied in the fields of biomarkers, mesoporous materials, lithium ion batteries, solar cells and so on. Thirdly, a solution processing method of rapid self-assembly of coating film has been developed to prepare highly effective anti-reflective multilayer optical coating. This part of work won the American R&D 100 Award in 2010. The award-winning project is “Multifunctional Optical by Rapid Self-Assembly”.
