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.