Principal Education and Working Experience:

• September 2009 —— June 2013  Materials Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University; bachelor's degree

• September 2013 —— June 2018  Materials Physics and Chemistry, Fudan University; doctor's degree

• June 2018 —— August 2020  Department of Materials Science, Fudan University; postdoctoral fellow

• September 2020 —— December 2023  Young Associate Researcher, Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, China

• December 2023 —— April 2025  Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, China

• April 2025 —— Present  Associate Professor, School of Smart Materials and Future Energy, Fudan University, China

• March 2024 —— Present  Rotating Program Director, Division B05, Department of Chemical Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China

Principal Research Directions:

• Chiral Liquid Crystal Materials; Functional Polymer Materials Chemistry; Smart and Biomimetic Materials

Principal Honors and Recognition:

• 2025  First Prize of Science and Technology Award (Basic Research) of Chinese Materials Research Society (as second contributor)

• 2024  First Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award (as third contributor)

• 2022  Shanghai Rising-Star Program

• 2018  Shanghai Super Postdoctoral Fellow

  
  

Principal Courses Taught:

• Liquid Crystal Materials and Displays

Publications:

1. Yaoqing Feng, Jia Wei, Lang Qin*, Yanlei Yu*. Three-dimensional liquid crystal polymer actuators assembled by athermal photo-welding. Soft Matter, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2SM01476A.

2. Xin Huang, Lang Qin, Jinlei Wang, Xiao Zhang, Bo Peng, Yanlei Yu*. Multiple Shape Manipulation of Liquid Crystal Polymers Containing Diels-Alder Network. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2022, 32(51), 2208312.
   

3. Yao Lu#, Lang Qin#, Quan Liu, Zichuan Li, Weijia Zhang, Chongyu Zhu*, Yanlei Yu*. Contactless manipulation of mixed phase fluids in liquid crystal polymer microtubes assisted with light-driven vortex. NPG Asia Mater., 2022, 14, 73.

4. Lang Qin, Xiaojun Liu, Yanlei Yu*. Soft actuators of liquid crystal polymers fueled by light from ultraviolet to near infrared. Adv. Optical Mater., 2021, 9(7), 2001743.

5. Lang Qin#, Xiaojun Liu#, Kunyun He, Guodong Yu, Hang Yuan, Ming Xu, Fuyou Li, Yanlei Yu*. Geminate labels programmed by two-tone inks combining structural and fluorescent color. Nat. Commun., 2021, 12, 699.

6. Xiao Zhang#, Lang Qin#, Yuyun Liu, Jia Wei, Yanlei Yu*. Manipulating small water droplets on a photo-switchable mat of fluorinated linear liquid crystal polymers. Giant, 2020, 2, 100019.

7. Lang Qin, Jia Wei, Yanlei Yu*. Photostationary RGB selective reflection from self-organized helical superstructures for continuous photopatterning. Adv. Optical Mater., 2019, 7 (18), 1900430.

8. Lang Qin, Wei Gu, Jia Wei, Yanlei Yu*. Piecewise phototuning of self-organized helical superstructures. Adv. Mater., 2018, 30 (8), 1704941.

9. Lang Qin, Wei Gu, Yingying Chen, Jia Wei*, Yanlei Yu. Efficient visible-light full-color tuning of self-organizedhelical superstructures enabled by fluorinated chiral switches. RSC Adv., 2018, 8 (68), 38935-38940.

10. Jiu-an Lv, Yuyun Liu, Jia Wei, Erqiang Chen, Lang Qin, Yanlei Yu*. Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystalpolymer microactuators. Nature, 2016, 537 (7619), 179-184.

11. Xinlei Pang, Lang Qin, Bo Xu, Quan Liu, Yanlei Yu*. Ultra-large contraction directed by light-driven unlocking ofprestored strain energy in linear liquid crystal polymer fibers. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2020, 30 (32), 2002451.