Advanced Materialsreleased its published online article in New Year’s first week, unveiling the review entitledBiomimetic and Bioinspired Synthesis of Nanomaterials/Nanostructurescomposed by Professor Wu Qingsheng’s research group from the Department of Chemistry on invitation. The article, for the first time, has systematically summarized the original achievements of Tongji University. The article hadProfessor Wu as the corresponding author, his doctoral student Zan Guangtao as the first author and Department of Chemistry, Tongji University as the first unit. (Article link:. Adv Mater, 2016, DOI:. 10.1002 / adma.201503215)

Professor Wu Qingsheng’s research group has been long dedicated to the study of Biomimetic and Bioinspired Synthesis of Nanomaterials and its application in the overlapping fields like life science, medicine, environment and energy. This article not only reviews the progress made till now, but also dwell upon the future developments of this field in the future with theoretical innovation. Considering the current conceptual confusion in the biomimetic synthesis of nanomaterials, the article initiates a systematic classification of this domain into “functional biomimetic synthesis” and “process biomimetic synthesis”. Previously confused, they are actually two major different directions, the former as “property” and the latter as “methodology”. Alongside, biological processes that can be used for process biomimetic synthesis are compiled and categorized by intelligent levels in the article, based on which the two concepts “Functional Biomimetic Synthesis” and “Process Biomimetic Synthesis” are firstly defined. Five directions of “process biomimetic synthesis” are collated from 515 references, three of which were introduced by Professor Wu Qingsheng’s research group, thus establishing the group’s significant position in the Process Biomimetic Synthesis field.

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