摘要
This special issue is dedicated to Professor Daoben Zhu on the occasion of his 80th birthday and in recognition of his prominent contributions to the interdisciplinary fi eld of molecular materials and devices.Professor Zhu was born in Shanghai in 1942.He fi nished his graduate courses at East China University of Science and Technology in 1968.He joined the Institute of Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences(ICCAS)as an assistant professor,and was promoted to associate professor in 1985 and professor in 1987.He worked as a visiting scholar from 1977 to 1979 and a visiting scientist from 1985 to 1986 at the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg,Germany.
