Professor Yuan Hu is Director of the Institute of Fire Safety Materials at USTC. He obtained his PhD from USTC in 1997. He been active in fire safety materials research for more than 30 years. His main research interests include polymer/inorganic compound nanocomposites, new flame retardants and their flame retardant polymers, synthesis and properties of inorganic nanomaterials, combustion, and the decomposition mechanisms of polymers. Prof. Hu has published more than 600 SCI papers and he has more than 40 patents to his credit. In 2017, he was awarded the 2nd Prize of the National Natural Science Award by the Chinese Government. Hafezeh Nabipour is currently working as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). She received her PhD degree from the Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University (Iran, 2015). She worked at Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University and the University of Tehran for three years. From 2018, she moved to the USTC as a visiting scholar and a post-doctoral researcher working with Prof. Yuan Hu. She has authored more than 50 ISI-indexed articles in peer-reviewed international journals. She was also awarded the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the research fund for international young researchers, the Chinese Academy of Science President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) and the President Award of Iran National Science Foundation. Her research interests focus on the design of novel bio-based flame retardants and bio-nanocomposite with high performance. Dr. Xin Wang is currently working as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He completed his PhD in Safety Science and Engineering from USTC in 2013. His research interests focus on synthesis and application of bio-based flame retardants, preparation of layered nanomaterials and their use in flame retardant polymer nanocomposites. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 SCI-indexed papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 5 book chapters and 1 monograph. He was also awarded the 2nd Prize of the National Natural Science Award, by the Chinese Government in 2017.