Zhuolei Zhang, Ph.D., is a Professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and a recipient of the Huazhong Scholars Program and Hubei Provincial High-Level Talent Award. He obtained his B.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2015) in Chemistry from Jilin University. He then conducted postdoctoral research at Temple University (2015–2018) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher and scientific engineering associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2018–2022). His research interests focus on the design, synthesis, and device integration of emerging nanomaterials for multifunctional applications, spanning optics, electronics, mechanics, and catalysis. He has authored over 20 papers as first or corresponding author in journals including Science Advances, Advanced Materials, PNAS, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Materials Today, Nano Letters, and ACS Nano.

• Adv. Mater., 2025, accepted.

• Laser Photonics Rev., 2025, DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202500113.

• Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 135, e202212549.

• Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2020, 117, 29442.

• Mater. Today, 2020, 34, 51.

• Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2018, 115, 3776.

• Nano Lett., 2018, 18, 4346.

• Sci. Adv., 2017, 3, e1701008.

• ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 11739.

• Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 15708.

• Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 5052.