On October 13, the famous polymer scientist, Zhengdi Cheng, from Akron-University was invited to visit East China University of Science and Technology. President Xuhong Qian introduced the development of the school to Professor Cheng and hoped that Professor Cheng would strongly support the construction of polymer discipline. Then President Qian accompanied Professor Cheng to visit the analysis and testing center.

   After the visit, Professor Cheng gave an academic report named "Self assemblies of block copolymers in different environments" in the auditorium of Yifu Building. After the report, accompanied by Professor Jiaping Lin, Dean of the School of Materials, Professor Cheng visited the research center and the polymer material processing center and gave much valuable advice on the development of the polymer discipline.

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  Zhengdi Cheng was born in Shanghai in 1949. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics of East China Normal University in 1977. He obtained master degree from the Department of Chemical Fibers of China Textile University (now Donghua University) in 1981. The tutor is Professor Baojun Qian, who is the well-known polymer material expert in China. In 1985, he got his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, of RENSSELAER Institute of Technology (RPI) under the tutelage of Professor Bernhard Wunderlich. After two years of postdoctoral work in the RPI, he joined the Department of Polymer Science of AKRON University as associate professor in 1987 and were promoted to be a professor in 1995. He has won the US Presidential Young Scientist Award (1991), the JOHN H. DILLON Medal of the American Physical Society (1995), the METTLER-TOLEDO Award of the North American Society for Thermal Analysis (1999), and the International Thermal Analysis Association TA-Instrument Award (2004) ,the American Chemical Society Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Collaborative Research Award (2005) and so on. He works as Robert C. Musson & Trustees Chair Professor and Director of the Department of Polymer Science at AKRON University (2001-2005), Senior Editor-in-Chief of Polymer magazine, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Organic Chemistry.