News Network News On July 1, "Nature" magazine reported on Qingdao University's frontier achievements of the hybrid material photonics industry technology of the International Joint Research Center for Hybrid Materials Technology titled "Light touch from hybrid material heavyweights" in the "Nature Index 2021 Materials Science" column, and use a whole page reported the scientific category, application field and future prospects of hybrid materials established by Professor Tang Jianguo, as well as the representative innovation achievements made by the international team in the field of optical quantum industrial technology of hybrid materials.

The construction of new materials with heterogeneous components is a major problem that has plagued the scientific community for a long time, and they hope that the invented materials can combine the excellent properties of heterogeneous materials. Hybrid materials are the way to achieve this expectation. Since 2006, Professor Tang Jianguo of Qingdao University has developed hybrid materials, which are mainly characterized by the construction of nanostructures from molecules/atoms, which are composed of heterogeneous components connected by non-covalent bonds, to create new materials with higher performance. After fifteen years of hard work, they were the first in the world to report rare earth ion-induced polymer nanoaggregates (LIPAs) for polymer solar cells, and their achievements were authorized by US and European patents. Natural biological macromolecules LIPAs from living organisms induced by rare earth ions were developed into a new generation of biosensors for drug delivery and concentration sensing in situ, and highly sensitive sensors for environmental highly toxic heavy metal ions (such as Cr6+, etc.). The flexible hybrid polymer film developed using components with efficient photon quantum properties, such as LIPAs, characteristic quantum dots and isomerized carbon nanotubes, is applied to the utilization and conversion of photon quantum energy, and has formed preliminary industrialization capabilities.

The team is characterized by international cooperation, and has established a total of three national research platform (i.e "One Center and Two Bases"), namely "National Hybrid Materials Technology International Joint Research Center", "National Polymer Hybrid Materials Innovation and Intelligence Introducing Base (111 Program)" and "National International Science and Technology Cooperation Demonstration Base". Relying on these three national-level platforms, since 2016, it has undertaken a breakthrough in 2 national key R&D plans, 1 national-level specially-appointed talent plan project, and 1 Shandong Foreign Professional Double Hundred Team Project, etc.. Research is integrated into national strategies. Two offshore research bases have been established in Colorado State University and Belarus State University and introduced16 international frontier foreign experts in this field, including four non-Chinese foreign academicians and the chairman of the Nobel Prize Review Committee. A 32-person research team consisting of 16 Chinese teachers and 16 foreign experts has been formed, and these foreign experts won the Chinese Government Friendship Award.

“Nature” has a worldwide distribution of journals and online readers. The report on hybrid materials photonics industry technology innovation achievements of Qingdao University's National International Joint Research Center for Hybrid Materials Technology ("One Center and Two Bases") will help improve Qingdao University's international reputation and international influence.

The report page collected in this journal: Nature Vol 595, 1 July 2021, No.7865, page S37