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Richard received his B.S. degree in Materials Science at Anhui University of Technology in 1982 and M.S. degree in Materials Science at Beijing University of Science & Technology in 1985. Richard was hired as a research engineer at Beijing Research Institute of Iron and Steel (BRIIS) until 1988. He received his Ph.D degree in Solid State Physics at Copenhagen University in Denmark in 1991.

Thereafter, Richard started his industrial R&D life as a Senior Scientist at NKT A/S, Denmark, and the Corporate Fellow at American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC: a MIT spinoff company) in MA, US since 1993. He gained six year experiences in tribology, wear, friction, erosion, corrosion, electrochemistry of metallic materials during Master degree study and BRIIS tenure. Richard also worked on few metallic glass materials for three years as a Ph.D candidate. During his 13 years NKT and AMSC tenure, he becomes a distinguished scientist in high temperature superconductor industrial research community in US and Europe.

Since 2003, Richard started to transform his career to be an entrepreneur. He started as a corporate advisor for few companies including A123 Systems Inc: A MIT spin off company in Li-ion battery, and Taiwan NeoSolar Corporation: A largest solar cell manufacture in Taiwan.

In 2005, he started his carbon nanotube venture as a visiting Professor at Tsinghua University. He founded a holding company (CNano Group Ltd.) in 2006, and rose A and B round funding from US and Taiwanese VCs. In 2007, he founded CNano Technology Ltd and Beijing CNano subsidiary. He was the Managing Director, President and CTO of CNano. He led the team not only built the world largest CNT plant and also developed first CNT dispersed paste for Li-ion battery applications.

In 2011, Richard founded SuperC Technology Ltd. and rose A round funding. In 2012, SuperC incorporated a China subsidiary in Guangdong. SuperC is aimed to be the leading company in graphene production and applications. Within less than two years, Richard led SuperC team built two production lines with world largest annual production capacity and developed more than 20 application products in polymer composites, advanced paints, and energy storage systems. Richard is now as the Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of SuperC.  

Through his 32 years career, Richard holds more than 40 patents and over 60 publications.