Professor Ruren Xu is Professor of Chemistry at Jilin University, P. R. China and an elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. With over 400 papers in international journals and 6 research monographs, he is known worldwide for contributions in the synthesis of new families of microporous materials, establishment of solvothermal synthetic route, and pioneering work in the rational micropore-synthesis. Prof. Xu has served as a main editor or on the editorial board for 12 journals in the field. He was a councilor of International Zeolite Association from1998 to 2004 and is the current Pr...