Professor Liang-Yin Chu is the School Dean of Chemical Engineering at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. Professor Chu has received numerous honours and awards including the National Natural Science Award nominated by the Ministry of Education of China (2003), Distinguished Young Scholar issued by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2008), Distinguished Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program issued by the Ministry of Education (2009), Te-Pang Hou Chemical Science and Technology Innovation Award issued by the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (2013). He has authored/coauthored more than 400 papers, 37 patents, 14 book chapters and four books. Currently, Professor Chu directs a talented research group with a diverse and interdisciplinary focus on the development of advanced functional materials, microfluidics, membranes and biomaterials. Dr. Wei Wang is an associate professor of School of Chemical Engineering at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. His research mainly focuses on functional materials, microfluidics, and interfacial sciences. He has authored and co-authored 76 papers that published in peer-reviewed journals. He was awarded many honours and awards, including the Emerging Investigator 2014 of Lab on a Chip (The Royal Society of Chemistry), Materials Horizons Paper Prize at the 8th Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium (2016), and the Excellent Paper Award issued by the Organization Committee of the 3rd Asian Conference on Colloids and Interface Science (2009).