Heavy! Sun Dawen's team published papers in the world's top journals: the introduction of mesh chemistry into agricultural chemistry

Recently, the world's top review journal, Chemical Society Reviews (IF s 42.846), included an article written by a team of sun da literary fellows at South China University of Technology
Introducing Reticular Chemistry into agrochemistry
(DOI:10.1039/C9CS00829B). This paper introduces moFs and COFs materials which use the "magic" of mesh chemistry to start a new journey in agricultural chemical evolution. This paper is co-authored by Sun Dawen of the Center for Modern Food Engineering Research of South China University of Technology, And huang Lunjie, a fellow doctoral student, and Associate Professor Pu Hongbin and Postdoctoral Ma Wei as co-authors. It is reported that in recent years, the field of agricultural chemistry research for the first time in the world's top chemical comprehensive journal milestone results.
modern agriculture has contributed to the survival of mankind by feeding 7 billion people. Agricultural chemistry is the core engine for modern agricultural development by manipulating the core relationship between plants, animals, insects, microorganisms and their environment, taking on the basic tasks of agricultural production, monitoring, protection and restoration. Compared to the natural or artificial configuration of water, soil, light and air, modern agronomy relies on the intervention of agrochemicals and a variety of functional materials. Agrochemicals can increase soil fertility, control pests and pathogens, and improve the growth and health of crops and livestock, thereby increasing the productivity of food, feed, fiber and fuel. In pursuit of high productivity, these agrochemicals, once known as "magic potions", cause serious negative hazards, including soil degradation, exposure to toxic substances, antibiotic resistance, loss of biodiversity, gas emissions and water pollution. In addition to the threat posed by agrochemicals, other global issues, such as environmental pressures (biological and non-biological), climate change, land and water shortages and agricultural waste, also indicate that current agrochemical practices are outdated. With the further intensiveization of modern agriculture, in the face of high demands on agricultural production, quality and safety, today's agrochemical strategies are technically and environmentally unsustainable. Therefore, the introduction of state-of-the-art chemical and material technologies to reconstruct ad agricultural chemistry to meet the yield, quality and sustainability requirements of agricultural systems would be an ideal solution.
mesh chemistry is a chemical that extends molecular chemistry to precise frames through links to molecular components. Mesh chemistry manufactures a variety of mesh materials (RMs), including metal organic skeletons (MOFs), zeolite mite skeletons (ZIFs) and co-priced organic frames (COFs). Since its invention, MOFs have been found to be used in many fields, including energy, biomedical, sensing, environmental science and food safety, and COFs have emerged in many fields due to their chemical diversity.
first time around two important porous materials in mesh chemistry, MOFs and COFs, this paper demonstrates the possibility of introducing mesh chemistry as an easy-to-use chemical toolbox into atrochemical technology. In this important review, the authors show how mesh chemistry is shaping the future of adrochemistry in a variety of areas, including agricultural sensing, ad-ecological conservation and reuse, pesticide formulation, smart indoor agriculture, and agricultural biotechnology. This work will be a systematic overview of general concerns in the fields of porous materials, mesh chemistry, ad agricultural chemistry, food chemistry and environmental science.
Since its establishment in 2012, the Center for Modern Food Engineering Research of South China University of Technology, led by Academician Sun Dawen, has focused on new technologies, methods and applications in the field of agricultural engineering and food engineering, with intelligent testing and control institutes, advanced frozen cold chains and new physical processing institutes. Intelligent detection and control so spectral imaging intelligent perception technology as the main body of research, since 2016, combined with new nanomaterials technology, the field of research extends to surface enhancement Raman spectroscopy (SERS), mesh chemical materials, carbon quantum dots, aggregation-induced luminescence (AIE) and nanoenzyme applications in agriculture and food. At present, nearly 40 relevant SCI papers have been published, with a total number of citations reaching more than 1100 times (Web of Science, 2020.11), which has opened up boundaries in the field of anachemistry and food testing and made important contributions to the application of nanomaterials in agriculture/food.
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Professor Da-Wen Sun, Director of the Center for Modern Food Engineering, South China University of Technology, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (European Academy of Humanities and Natural Sciences), Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Sciences of Ireland, Foreign Fellow of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk), Fellow of the International Academy of Food Sciences (IAFoST), Fellow of the International Academy of Agricultural and Systems Engineering (iAABE), Fellow of the International Academy of Refrigeration Sciences. The main research direction of food quality and safety rapid detection, food frozen cold chain and food new physical processing. From 2015 to 2020, it was awarded the title of "Highly Cited Scientist" by Corevian (formerly Thomson Reuters) for six consecutive years (SCIH index s 103, SCOPUS H index s 107, Google Scholar H index s 121). Won the first prize of the 2014 Guangdong Science and Technology Award, the second prize of the 2016 Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the 2018 China Light Industry Federation Science and Technology Progress Award, and the first prize of the 2018 Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award.