2021 Materials Today Rising Star Award Winners Announced

The Materials Today ‘Rising Star Awards’ recognize researchers in materials science and engineering who have demonstrated themselves to be exceptionally capable researchers with the potential to become future leaders in the field.

The nomination for 2021?Materials Today?‘Rising Star Awards’?was closed on 1st October 2021, and the winners were announced during the 2021 Materials Today Innovation Award Winner Presentation by Yury Gogotsi on 19th January 2022.

And there will be two webinars given by the four winners.

Webinar II: Research on Biomaterials & Bioscience

Date: 15th March 9:00 PM (EST) /16th March 9:00 AM (GMT+ 8)

Speakers: Dr. Jun Chen (University of California), Dr. Wei Tao (Harvard University)

Registration Link: Materials Today Rising Star Awards Webinar II

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Read below for more information on the winners!?

Category: Biomaterials

Dr. Wei Tao is an Omid C. Farokhzad Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, an Endowed Chair and a Principal Investigator in the Center for Nanomedicine, and a Faculty Member in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious journals such as Nature Rev. Mater., Nature Rev. Cardiol., Science Transl. Med., Nature Biomed. Eng., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Nature Protoc., Nature Commun., Science Adv., etc. His research interests include biomaterials, nanotechnology, RNA medicine, and drug delivery. He is among the Clarivate’s Global Highly Cited Researchers List (2021), World's Top 2% Scientists List (from Mendeley Data/Elsevier; singer year 2019, 2020), and MIT Technology Review Top Chinese Innovators Under 35 list (TR35; 2020), etc. He also serves on numerous editorial boards including as Associate Editor of Journal of Nanobiotechnology (IF=10.435; Springer Nature & BMC), Exploration (Wiley); Editorial Board Member of Bioactive Materials (IF= 14.593; Elsevier), Nano-Micro Letters (IF=16.419; Springer Nature); Advisory Board Member of Matter (IF=15.589, Cell Press) and so on.

Highlighted publications:

• Xiao Y, Tang Z, Huang X, Joseph J, Chen W, Liu C, Zhou J, Kong N, Joshi N, Du J, Tao W. Glucose-responsive oral insulin delivery platform for one-treatment-a-day in diabetes. Matter 2021, 4(10): 3269–3285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2021.08.011
• Feng C, Ouyang J, Tang Z, Kong N, Liu Y, Fu L, Ji X, Xie T, Farokhzad OC, Tao W. Germanene-based Theranostic Materials for Surgical Adjuvant Treatment: Inhibiting Tumor Recurrence and Wound Infection. Matter 2020, 3(1): 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.04.022
• Zhang X, Li L, Ouyang J, Zhang L, Xue J, Zhang H, Tao W. Electroactive electrospun nanofibers for tissue engineering. Nano Today 2021, 39: 101196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nantod.2021.101196

Category: Biomaterials

Dr. Jun Chen is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His group published two books, 200 journal articles, with 110 of them being a corresponding author in Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Materials Today, Joule, Matter, and many others.?With a current h-index of 80, Dr. Chen was identified to be one of the world’s most influential researchers in the field of Materials Science by the Web of Science Group. Among his many accolades are the?Materials Thought Leaders by Azom; 30 Life Sciences Leaders To Watch by Informa, UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award, Okawa Foundation Research Award, Advanced Materials Rising Star, ACS Nano Rising Stars Lectureship Award, Chem. Soc. Rev. Emerging Investigator Award, JMCA Emerging Investigator Award, Nanoscale Emerging Investigator Award, Frontiers in Chemistry Rising Stars, IAAM Scientist Medal, 2020 Altmetric Top 100, Top 10 Science Stories of 2020 by Ontario Science Centre, Highly Cited Researchers 2020/2019/2021 in Web of Science, MINE2020 Young Scientist Excellence Award. Beyond research, he is an associate editor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Highlighted publications:

• Xun Zhao, Hassan Askari, Jun Chen. Nanogenerators for smart cities in the era of 5G and Internet of Things. Joule 2021, 6(5): 1391-1431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.03.013
• Songlin Zhang, Michael Bick, Xiao Xiao, Guorui Chen, Ardo Nashalian, Jun Chen. Leveraging triboelectric nanogenerators for bioengineering. Matter 2021, 4 (2): 845-887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2021.01.006
• Keyu Meng, Shenlong Zhao, Yihao Zhou, Yufen Wu, Songlin Zhang, Qiang He, Xue Wang, Zhihao Zhou, Wenjing Fan, Xulong Tan, Jin Yang, Jun Chen. A Wireless Textile-Based Sensor System for Self-Powered Personalized Health Care. Matter 2020, 2 (4): 896-907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2019.12.025