Advanced Materials for Multidisciplinary Applications

This book provides an overview of recent research in the area of advanced materials for improving human healthcare, protecting the environment and alternative energy resources. It also provides insights into the nature of energy extraction, management and usage related to fossil fuels and sustainable energy.

Marinda Li Wu has over 45 years of experience in the chemical industry. She worked many years in research for Dow Chemical R&D where she earned 7 U.S. patents and as a business leader for Dow Plastics. Dr. Wu subsequently held management roles at several smaller chemical companies. As a strong advocate of STEM education, she founded “Science is Fun!” to interest young students in science and enhance public support for science education. Dr. Wu has served in many leadership roles for the American Chemical Society including President (2013), Board of Directors (2006-2014), Councilor (1996-present) and Chair of CEPA, the Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs (2003-2005). Dr. Wu has also served on numerous other national ACS committees and ACS Board Committees. She has helped countless chemists as a certified ACS career consultant for almost 30 years. At her local ACS California Section, Dr. Wu was a 2001 centennial chair, the chair of the Women Chemists Committee (WCC) four times, the chair for the Government Affairs Committee (GAC), the chair or a member of over half a dozen other committees and continues to serve on the CALACS Executive Committee.

Wei Gao is a fellow in Analytical Science, Corporate Research and Development, at the Dow Chemical Company. She received her B.S. degree from Fudan University and Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics from Peking University. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow and an associate professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2006, Wei joined Rohm and Haas/Dow. She intensively works on polymer and particle characterization, the synthesis-structure-property relationship of polymeric and colloidal systems and sustainable polymers. As an active member and alternate council for Polymer Division of American Chemical Society (ACS), she has organized ACS symposia in the areas of Separation and Characterization of Macromolecules and Particles, Polymer Sciences for Everyday Things, Polymer Colloids, Industrial Innovation of Polymer Science and Natural Polymers. She is a lifetime member of Chinese American Chemical Society (CACS).

Dr. Lei Li is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1994. Three years later, he received his master’s degree in polymer science from Tsinghua University. In 2001, he received his Ph.D. degree in Macromolecular Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. After spending nine years at Seagate Technology LLC as a postdoc, a research staff member, a research manager and a Sr. research manager, Dr. Li started his academic career at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010. Dr. Li’s research focuses on surface, interface, 2D materials and ultrathin films, ranging from polymer nanocoatings, graphene surface and ionic liquid nanofilms to 3D-printed membrane for water treatment. His work has been published in high-impact journals, including Nature Materials, Accounts of Chemical Research, ACS Nano and Chemical Science. Dr. Li also holds ten U.S. patents. As the principal investigator, Dr. Li has directed projects supported by NSF, Department of Energy, ACS Petroleum Research Funds and Advanced Storage Research Consortium. Currently, Dr. Li serves as the 2021 president for CACS.

Jasmine Lu is currently a general manager at Viwit Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining Viwit in 2022, she was the director of Alliance Management at Atomwise, a preclinical pharma company revolutionizing how drugs are discovered with AI. In addition, she worked for the US Innovation Center of Shimadzu, a top-five global instrumentation company, and AcceleDev, a US-Sino CDMO company, as the director of Project Management. Her earlier careers include Senior Medicinal Chemist in Morphochem and Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery, focusing on drug discovery for oncology and immunosuppressants projects. Jasmine is a life member of the Chinese American Chemical Society (CACS). She has served on the Board of its East Chapter since 2012 and was the chair of 2019. She joined the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 1994 and has served as an alternate councilor in ACS North Jersey Chapter. She has also served on the Board of NJACS Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group and was the chair of 2017. Dr. Lu holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Dartmouth College, an M.S. from Southern Methodist University and a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Peking University.

Dr. Jingbo Louise Liu has >150 scholarly products and >180 talks about sustainable energy, catalysis, and environmental and biomedical applications of advanced nanostructured materials. She participated in > 42 funded projects to promote STEM education and energy materials and technology. For her contribution, she was named the Women of the Year by Texas Diversity Council (2023) and the Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2021) due to her devotion and leadership. She was elected as a fellow by three professional societies, the American Chemical Society, the Linnean Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. She holds the chartered scientist and the chartered chemist status due to her expertise in improving the core knowledge and research activities in chemical and materials sciences. She was appointed as the distinguished scientist by the Office of Naval Research to advance the high energy density battery and a DEBI faculty fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop functionalized materials to improve human health. She is an ACS certified career consultant, the ACS Energy and Fuels Division councilor and the ACS Diversity Equity Inclusion and Respect Committee member. Dr. J. Louise Liu is a full professor of Chemistry and served as the director of the Center for Teaching Effectiveness at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (2021-2023). She is affiliated^ 200 undergraduates and 45 graduate students and hosted 15 visiting scholars/researchers in her research laboratory during her tenure/post-tenure timeline and further served as the NSF panelist reviewer, the journal guest editor and the book editor.