Meng Qin received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Yanlin Song. Afterwards, she worked as a research associate at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA. She is currently an associate professor at the College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University. Her research is focused on structural-color based materials and their biomedical applications.

Structural-color materials, hydrogels, biosensors, theranostics

1. Chuanshun Hu, Jieyu Zhou, Jin Zhang, Yonghang Zhao, Chunyu Xie, Wei Yin, Jing Xie, Huiying Li, Xin Xu, Lei Zhao, Meng Qin,* Jianshu Li,* A structural color hydrogel for diagnosis of halitosis and screening of periodontitis, Materials Horizons, 2024, 11, 519.

2. Dengfeng Lu, Meng Qin,* Yonghang Zhao, Hongxiang Li, Longbo Luo, Chunmei Ding, Pei Cheng, Meng Su, Huiying Li, Yanlin Song, Jianshu Li,*, Supramolecular photonic hydrogel for high-sensitivity alkaline phosphatase detection via synergistic driving force, Small, 2023, 19, 2206461.

3. Xiaoning Sun, Chunmei Ding, Meng Qin,* Jianshu Li,* Hydrogel-based biosensors for bacterial infections, Small, 2024, 20, 2306960.

4. Meng Qin,† Mo Sun,† Ruobing Bai, Yiqi Mao, Xiaoshi Qian, Dipika Sikka, Yuan Zhao, Hang Jerry Qi, Zhigang Suo, Ximin He,* Bioinspired hydrogel interferometer for adaptive coloration and chemical sensing. Advanced Materials, 2018, 30, 1800468.

5. Meng Qin, Yu Huang, Yanan Li, Meng Su, Bingda Chen, Heng Sun, Peiyi Yong, Changqing Ye, Fengyu Li,* Yanlin Song,* A rainbow structural-color chip for multisaccharide recognition. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55, 6911.