Why so charming the science is? I think this question always lingers in our mind.

When I was a child, I remember the best day maybe the day I got a box of crayons from my parents, I used them to draw a bird, a cloud, and my happy family. Over time, I became a master student at Peking University (China), and my major research field is organic materials synthesis and application.

Luckily, this summer I became a summer student of HZB, have to say, I really enjoy the life here, so I decided to make an electrochromic graffito as a gift for HZB. As you can see in the picture and video, I wrote the letter “H“ “Z“ “B“ on the ITO glass using three kinds of electrochromic materials that I synthesized. It’s just like using crayons to draw a picture on my childhood, but the biggest difference is that the color of the letter ‘ HZB ‘ can be changed under different potentials! Actually, this phenomenon is defined as electrochromism, the color change is caused by the redox process happened inside of the electrochromic polymers under the different potential bias. This is really an interesting research area, and I’ve made a lot of efforts to synthesize electrochromic polymers with several different colors. I think it is a fulfilling thing to draw a picture using the materials you synthesized.

From crayons to electrochromic materials, I think that’s the answer to why science is so charming. For me, when I was a kid, I liked to play with crayons, and fortunately, when I become a young scientist, I still like to play “science” and I believe that for every scientist, their research field was also full of interesting or meaningful things. Precisely, owing to the deep love of science, we can go further in our research field.

 

69 Comments

  1. What a wonderful job! Hope your work will become application soon!

  2. Hahaha.Tks for your admiration!

  3. love your story as much as I love your amazing work…looking forward to more to come…science needs creative ideas, and such ideas are definitely come from beautiful minds like you?

  4. Nice work！ I really like your works and working style. Colorful research with colorful you. Enjoy your colorful life in science.

  5. What’s a nice work!

  6. Brilliant work, like a girl’s dream come true! Keep going and let children find their dreams in your work.

  7. well done! Everything start with naive childhood dream , and grow into something magnificent, so proud of you!

  8. Brilliant ！I’m shocked by your talant ！

  9. Yeah.I can’t agree more that success or failure both make sense! I’ll keep on going. Thanks for your encouragement!

  10. It’s really interesting! Why is science so interesting
    I think it brings us closer to our dreams. Success or failure makes sense One day you will be rewarded
    Come on “Jiaoyi” !

  12. Tks for your encouragement！

  14. Tks for your encouragement❤

  15. After watching it, I felt excellent. You need a research heart for everything you do. My generation is unkengweng people, model!

  16. WOW! It looks great and intresting! Good job! Fighting~

  17. Tks! You are the person who lead me to this colorful electrochromic research field. Tks a lot!

  18. Tks! Let’s work together to make electrochromic commercializd.

  20. Tks for your encouragement!

  21. Tks! I’m impressed by your comments! Looking forward to your breakthrough in computation field.

  22. Tks! Let’s work together to create more beauty.

  25. Tks for your encouragement!

  26. Tks for your encouragement!

  27. Tks! Looking forward to seeing your research findings one day!

  28. Tks. Enjoy your science! It’s also full of challenges and chances~

  29. Tks! I’m so glad that you like it~

  30. Tks. This is our common aspiration to make electrochromic materials commercializd.

  32. You are so smart.! Actually the most potential application of electrochromic is smart window, recently some inorganic electrochromic materials have been commercialized,and our group is trying our best to make organic electrochromic materials commercialize.Hope that day will come soon!

  33. What a cute idea and wish you good luck

  34. Tks! Looking forward to seeing your breakthrough at your research field too!

  35. very interesting and inspiring!

  37. Tks！you are also respectable person!

  38. FANCY job. Good expression of our deep love in science!

  39. respect you! skr

  40. I got to say you really did a interesting and meaningful job! Congratulations! It is always happy to use scientific skills to fullfil your little dreams. I am looking forward to seeing you make a big progress in electrochromic.Best wishes.

  41. Yeah, keep on trying and enjoying the process will give us enough strength to make a difference…I think.

  43. This looks awesome! Could it be used in smart windows, which can change its color to save energy?

  44. Amazing

  45. Great work and so lovely! I will learn from you! For our young scientists, making difference should be our dreams and we should try for it.

  46. Marvelous experiment ! Looking forward to practical application.

  47. Wow! Amazing work!!? Science can be very interesting!

  48. It’s such a good example to introduce science to unprofessional audience. Young people can enjoy science better in this way

  49. Good job,it will be very useful in future‘s life

  50. Such an excellent study. Looking forward to see more blog like this.

  51. Good job. Looking forward to future results!

  52. Interesting story and good job!

  53. Terrific work! Looking forward to your further research.

  54. Interesting words！Wanna see more.

  55. It’s amazing to find the beauty from science and step further with them.

  56. Nice work indeed! And can’t agree more that science comes from interest! May you find more happiness in scientific adventure in the future~

  57. What an excellent job！

  58. Such an excellent study. Looking forward to see more blog like this.

  59. Wonderful! Looking forward to further work!

  61. it’s good.i really want to know what will be happend

  62. it is an amazing work made to show the combination between science and art. Through this project, it is reasonable that the electrochromic could engage in human’s daliy life which make the future more colorful

  63. Nice story, charming work, and colorful experience！

  64. The electrochromic polymers with several different colors are so amazing! Hope more colors in the future~ Good luck and fighting!!!

  65. A nice show combine science and life!

  66. Are there three kinds of EC materials? Seems like tiny differences ~~LOL But the change of “H” is really obvious.

  67. It’s a great to change the color of the electrochromism

  68. Wow! So interesting to find HZB mark under the reaction of electrochromism with different color! Nice…

  69. Lovely! What a nice idea to visualize your research by writing HZB on a substrate with different “inks” made by electrochromic materials. Thank you very much!

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