Faculty

Dr. Zhou Yang is professor in the department of Material Physics and Chemistry of the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). He received his PhD degree in chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. Then he did postdoctoral research in Prof. Peter Günter’s group (ETH, Zürich) as a postdoctoral researcher from 2003 to 2007. He has been a professor at the University of Science & Technology Beijing since 2008. As Chief Professor of the Laboratory of Polymer Display and Energy Materials of USTB, his research interests cover the development of organic and polymeric materials for nonlinear optics, design and synthesis of organic dyes for photonic, electronic and medical applications. He has more than 230 papers in international journals including Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., and has more than 4000 citations.

Professor Yang and his research team have carried out a series of research work in the field of liquid crystals and light adjusting film materials. A series of innovative achievements have been made in the development of light brightening film, light transmittance temperature self-regulating film (TLC) and polymer dispersed liquid crystal film (PDLC) and the preparation technology of key materials for liquid crystal display (LCD). The project named" Preparation Technology of Special Liquid Crystal Materials and Light Adjusting Film " in cooperation with Peking University has won the First Prize of Technical Invention Award from Ministry Education of China in 2014 and the Second Prize of 2015 China’s National Award for Technological Invention (3^rd completed).