According to Wuhan University official microblogging news on October 18, China's famous chemist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University, professor, doctoral supervisor Zhang Lina academician due to the disease was invalid, died on October 17 at 20:00, at the age of 80.This is a very regrettable and heartbreaking piece of news, another academician of China fell. Its contribution in the field of polymer is very great, her research results at home and abroad to produce impact.
Academician Zhang Lina graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Wuhan University and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. At the age of 46, she had her own clear research direction, and at that time the scientific research conditions were also quite difficult, there is no decent laboratory, experimental equipment, her laboratory is a table and a laboratory table, a variety of experimental equipment or their own to buy. Despite the difficult conditions, she overcame all the difficulties and created the Natural Polymer and Polymer Physics Research Group.
At the age of 60, when she should have retired, she began the most important part of her scientific journey, working on new solvents and materials for cellulose. Simply put, she was looking for new materials that could replace plastics, be biodegradable, and have a wide range of uses. Eventually she found that cellulose and chitin could be dissolved at low temperatures in a mixture of water, urea and sodium hydroxide. Her pioneering approach led to the synthesis of many new nature-friendly materials, for which she was awarded the 2011 Anselm Payne Prize. Payne Award.
After being honored as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhang Lina said it was a strong sense of mission to live on this land that motivated her to do this research. Even at the age of 70, Prof. Zhang Lina still stands at the three-foot podium to teach and conduct research tasks at the same time. She trained more than 100 doctoral and master's degree students, and often worked late at night in the lab with her students, or helped them revise their papers. She has dedicated her life to education and scientific research in China. She is a person worthy of our respect, is the backbone of China, I hope Zhang Lina academician go well.