Dr. Di is a Professor at the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Di received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. Before joining SINANO, he worked as a Research Associate at NanoTech Institute of University of Texas at Dallas from 2013 to 2016. Dr. Di's research interest is Nanocarbonbased

smart materials. He has filed 48 patents and has over 90 publications, some of them were published in Science Advances, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Materials Horizons, and Small,etc. He has received CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program (2019), Jiangsu Province Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent (2018), and Outstanding Mentor Award of University of Science and Technology of China (2023).