Shengzhong (Frank) Liu received his Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, USA) in 1992.Upon his postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Illinois, USA), he joined high-tech companies in US for research including nanoscale materials, thin film solar cells, laser processing, diamond thin films, etc. His invention at BP Solar in semi-transparent photovoltaic module won R&D 100 award in 2002. Now he is a professor at Shaanxi Normal University and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.