Meet the editors

Yanan Gao is the vice director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Tropical Island Resources, Ministry of Education, at Hainan University, China. He received his bachelor's degree in 1999 and Ph.D. in 2005 from Shandong University. He continued his research at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (2006-2008), University of Akron (2008-2009) and the University of York (2009-2011)

as a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2011 he joined the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a principal investigator in the Ionic Liquids Lab and the leader of the Porous Organic Framework Material Group. His current research interests focus on the design, synthesis and application of covalent organic frameworks (COFs).

Fei Lu is a professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology at Hainan University. She received her bachelor's degree in material chemistry from Qufu Normal University in 2010 and a Ph.D. in colloid and interface chemistry from Shandong University in 2015. From 2015 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Shandong University and the University of Waterloo. She was promoted to full professor at

Shandong Normal University in 2019. Her current research interests are in porous materials for energy storage.

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