Hongxia Yan is currently a full professor at the School of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering in Northwestern Polytechnical University. She
received her Ph.D. degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University in
2006. She was elected to a member of the Molecular Aggregation
Luminescence Professional Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society and
the famous teacher of Shaanxi Province. Her research interests include
synthesis of functional polymer materials and their applications in
bioimaging and tribology. She has published more than 200 papers in
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, Macromolecules, and so on,
and has 40 domestic patents.