Abstract:

The year of 2020 marks 35 years since the launch of Chemical Research in Chinese Universities. We take this opportunity to celebrate the 35th anniversary of our journal with this special issue.

Chemical Research in Chinese Universities is under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and sponsored by Jilin University, which is a bi-monthly comprehensive research journal covering a variety of chemistry related subject areas. The journal published its first issue in 1985 as the English version of Chemical Journal in Chinese Universities, a well-known Chinese research chemical journal in China founded in 1964. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities received its current name and became an independent journal in 1991. Tang Au-Chin and Zhou Qi-Feng served as the former editor-in-chief during the years of 1985—2007 and 2007—2019, respectively. In 2019, I was appointed as the new editor-in-chief, and established a new editorial board and the first youth executive editorial board.

Since 1999, under the guidance and support of the former chief editors and editorial boards, as well as the joint efforts of the editorial staff, the journal has been indexed by SCI and included in over 20 authoritative databases and abstracts from home and abroad. From 2006 to 2008, we cooperated with Elsevier to publish online editions of the journal. Since 2013, we have continued our online publication by cooperating with Springer-Nature. The journal has been awarded the Excellent Editing Quality Award of National University Sci-Tech Journals, the Excellent Sci-Tech Journal Award of Chinese Universities for five consecutive years, the Highest International Impact Academic Journals of China for seven consecutive years, and the First Excellent English Journal Award of Chinese Universities.

So far, Chemical Research in Chinese Universities has gone through 35 years of development. Our journal ushers in the opportunity for China to build world-class scientific and technological journals. To celebrate the 35th anniversary, we have invited some renowned Chinese experts and scholars in the field of Chemistry from domestic and overseas to contribute to this momentous occasion. A total of 18 invited articles are collected in this special issue along with two regular articles and three highlights.

Following this special issue, we plan to publish five themed issues on the topics of DNA nanotechnology, nano energy, two-dimensional materials, amorphous materials and solar photo catalysis.

Finally, we extend our great thanks to the authors for their contributions to this special issue in honor of the 35th anniversary of our journal. We are committed to utilizing diverse channels and platforms to promote top-quality research articles in a timely manner to our readers. With the guidance of the new editorial board, the continued efforts of the editorial staff, and the enthusiastic support of our devoted readers, I believe our journal will become a domestically outstanding, internationally renowned, and high-impact comprehensive chemical journal in the near future.