Prof. Xuhui Sun received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in chemistry from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in material science from the City University of Hong Kong in 2002. He performed postdoctoral research at University of Western Ontario in 2003 and joined NASA Ames Research Center in 2005 as a research scientist. Before joined Institute of Nano Functional & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University in 2009 as a professor, he was a research scientist at Advanced Studies Lab, NASA Ames Research Center and adjunct assistant professor at Santa Clara University, CA. His research interests are focused in the area of the nanomaterials and their applications in nanoelectronics, sensors and energy harvesting. He is also interested in the development and application of synchrotron radiation techniques in nanomaterials study. He has published over 230 papers in high impact journals such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., ACS Nano, Chem. Rev., etc. and held 5 US patents and 60 Chinese patents. His publications have been cited over 10000 times and H-index is 58. He is a senior member of IEEE and has served associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Nanotechnology and editor board member of Frontiers in Materials. He has been PI or co-PI of a number of projects from the nation key research program, the national high-tech R&D Program and National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).