Chen Chaoji

Chaoji Chen, Professor of School of Resource and Environmental Sciences at the Wuhan University. Dr. Chen focuses on the engineering, functionalization and potential sustainable uses of biomass resources such as wood, bamboo, cellulose and chitin, toward addressing the material-energy-environmental challenges. As the first, co-first or corresponding author, Chen has published more than 80 SCI articles, including Nature (2), Science, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Sustainability, among others. Chen has made several breakthroughs in the field of wood nanotechnology toward sustainability, including super wood that is as strong as steel but six-times lighter to replace steel, moldable wood that is as strong as Al alloy and highly formable, patternable transparent aesthetic wood, wood batteries and supercapacitors for green energy storage, wood solar evaporators for clean water, and biodegradable lignocellulosic bioplastics. His works have been widely cited by global researchers for over 12,000 times with an H-factor of 60 (google scholar), with 27 as ESI Highly Cited Paper, and broadly covered by Nature, Science, MIT Technology Review, VOA, New York Post, Scientific American, The Sun, Xinhua Net, The Indian Express, among others. In the past two years, he was featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020/2021 Lists and Career-Long List from 1960-2020 (Stanford University). Chen received multiple awards including 2021 MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” Asia Pacific Award, 2021 China's Rising Start of Science and Technology Outstanding Impact Award, 2018 R&D 100 Awards, 2018 Invention of the Year of UMD in Physical Science, 100 Most Influential International Articles of China in 2015. He serves as the editorial board member or youth editorial board member of several journals including Batteries, The Innovation, SusMat, Environmental Science & Ecotechnology, and the advisory board member of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN).