Prof. Yanlin Song was born in 1969. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry at Peking University in 1996. Then he conducted research as a postdoctoral follow in the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University from 1996 to 1998. He has been working at Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) since 1998. His research interests include information function materials, application of polymers photonic crystals, green-printing materials and technology. He has published more than 200 academic papers in scientific journals, 1 book and 5 chapters and has been granted more than 50 patents. He won the First Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Award in 2004 the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award in 2005 and 2008 the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2006 the Prestigious Chinese Chemical Society-Akzo Nobel Chemistry Award in 2010 Outstanding Youth Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010 and the outstanding youth science and Technology Achievement Award in 2011.