Dr. Yuekun Lai is a Fujian province “Minjiang Scholar” special-appointed professor at the College of Chemical Engineering at Fuzhou University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University. During 2009–2011, he worked as a research fellow at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In July 2011, he moved to Muenster University with Prof. Harald Fuchs and Prof. Lifeng Chi. During 2013–2018, he was a full Professor at the National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, and School of Textile and Clothing Engineering in Soochow University. His research interests are focused on surface and interface modification, bioinspired responsive functional films with special wettability, TiO2 nanostructures, energy and environmental applications. He is selected as the 2018/2019/2020 Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics), 2019 Publons Peer Review Awards (Three fields) and the recipient of a 2016 Journal of Materials Chemistry A (JMCA, RSC) Emerging Investigators award, and published more than 160 peer-reviewed SCI papers with over 12000 citations (H-index 64), and as Associate Editor of Chemical Engineering Journal (IF=13.273) and Section Editor-in-Chief of Polymers (IF=4.329).