Dr. GUO Zhiguang, a professor at the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has been invited by Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya from the University of Tokyo to serve as a member of the editorial board of Chemistry Letters.

Chemistry Letters was founded in 1972 for the rapid distribution of important research results. It is a monthly publication of The Chemical Society of Japan that covers a wide range of chemical research. It is included in SCI and SCI-E. Its impact factor in 2013 was 1.3. The Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry Letters is Mitsuhiko Shionoya, the University of Tokyo.

Introduction to GUO Zhiguang

Dr. GUO Zhiguang is a research professor at the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics. His has been long engaged in the study on biotribology, mainly the design and preparation of functional surfaces, study of their properties and mechanism. He has published more than 100 papers in Chem. Soc. Rev., JACS、Advanced Materials，Chem. Commun., Nanoscale, Tribology and so on. He is also the member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Bionic Engineering and Tribology.