He graduated from Shandong University in 1999 with a B.S. in chemistry, and received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, CAS, in 2004, after studying the size and shape-controlled synthesis of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, chemical functionalization and hierarchical assembly of nanocrystals, design and fabrication of organic/inorganic nanocomposites, surface self-assembly and the fabrication of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). He then moved to Institute of Physics and joined Prof. Enge Wang’s group as a postdoctoral research associate. In 2006, he became a faculty member of Institute of Physics. From Oct. 2006 to Mar. 2008, he has been working as a visiting scholar at International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan.