Hedong Qi received his B.E. degree at College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Tianjin University of Science and Technology in 2018. He is currently a graduate student in Prof. Dayong Yang's Lab. His-current research focuses on DNA functional materials

Yuwei Xu received her B.E. degree at Hebei University of Technology in 2019. She is currently a graduate student in Prof. Dayong Yang's Lab. Her current research focuses on DNA functional materials

Pin Hu received her B.E. degree from the College of Food Science and Technology of Nanjing Agricultural University in 2018. She is currently a graduate student in Prof. Dayong Yang's Lab. Her current research focuses on DNA functional materials

Chi Yao is an associate professor in the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology of Tianjin University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Fudan University in 2017. Her current research focuses on DNA functional materials and analytical chemistry

Dayong Yang is a professor in the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology of Tianjin University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China in 2002 and 2005, respectively. In 2008, he received his Ph.D. degree at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He did postdoctoral training at Cornell University in the USA and Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen in The Netherlands. The themes of his research include DNA materials, biofunctional polymers, and synthetic biology