**About the Editors**

#### **Jingpeng Li**

Jingpeng Li achieved his Ph.D. degree at the Chinese Academy of Forestry. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Bamboo and Wood, China National Bamboo Research Center. His current work focuses on the functionalization of natural polymers for advanced applications. He is also interested in the use of natural materials in the manufacturing of bioplastics. He has published above 50 SCI-indexed journal articles and has gained an h-index of 21, according to the citation report from Google Scholar.

#### **Yun Lu**

Yun Lu, a distinguished recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation's Outstanding Youth Project, currently holds a post as a professor at the Research Institute of Wood Industry at the Chinese Academy of Forestry. She earned her Ph.D. in 2014 from Northeast Forestry University. Her research interests prominently encompass the fields of wood supramolecular science, wood cell wall engineering and bionic intelligent technology. She has published more than 70 articles in SCI journals such as ACS Energy Letters, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental. As the primary inventor, she has secured 12 national invention patents and earned 8 research grants. Professional affiliations include her membership in the Chinese Society of Forestry and the Chinese Papermaking Society. She also serves as a young editorial board member for the Journal of Forestry Engineering, Chinese Journal of Wood Science and Technology, Journal of Central South University of Forestry & Technology, the editorial board member of Scientific Reports, and the guest editor of Polymers and Journal of Renewable Materials. Her accolades include receiving the first prize for the Liang Xi Science and Technology Award in 2021, the Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Award for Wood Science in 2021, and the Youth Science and Technology Award of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration in 2022.

#### **Huiqing Wang**

Huiqing Wang graduated from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2013. Her postdoc was conducted at Wuhan University in the laboratory directed by Prof. Lina Zhang. She is currently an Associate Professor of Polymer Science in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Hefei University of Technology, China. Her research group focuses on advanced functional cellulose/chitin materials, including new methods and novel structures of cellulose/chitin nanomaterials; the construction of fluorescent cellulose aerogels; high-strength antibacterial membranes; antibioadhesive coatings; porous carriers for drugs or enzymes; cellulose-induced chirality promotion; and nanocellulose for cell binding.
