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Prof. Chao Gao received his Ph. D. in 2001 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), M.S.C., and B.Sc. both on Chemical Engineering from Hunan University, in 1998 and 1995, respectively. Since 2001, he became a faculty member in SJTU, and associate professor in 2002. Since Nov. 2003, he worked with Prof. Sir Harry Kroto as a visiting scholar and post-doc research fellow in University of Sussex, UK, and then moved to Prof. Axel H. E. Müller’s group at Bayreuth University, Germany in July 2005 as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow. In 2008, he joined Zhejiang University, and was promoted as full professor. 

His research interests include graphene oxide, liquid crystals, macroscopic assembly and energy-related application of graphene, and polymer chemistry. He co-edited a book on hyperbranched polymers (published by John, Wiley & Sons) and published more than 100 papers with citation of more than 6000 times. His research of graphene fiber knot has been selected by Nature as“Images of the Year”in 2011. He was awarded or funded with National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2013), the least dense solid Guinness World Records (2013), “Gold Kangaroo”World Innovation Award (2013), Academician of Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM) (2013), and Zhejiang Youth Technology Award (2013).