Recently, the 2022 Damo Institute Green Orange Award was announced. Yao Yonggang, a professor from the School of Materials and a supervisor of ICARE, won the award for "developing a precise and controllable electrothermal transient high-temperature synthesis technology, which is expected to promote the high efficiency, low carbon and clean materials manufacturing and chemical production". He is also the first young scholar at our university to be selected for this award.

The judging process for the 2022 Damo Academy Green Orange Award started on July 25, and nearly 500 valid applications were received from more than 700 outstanding young scholars aged 35 and below, covering 135 universities and research institutes across the country. Nearly 3 of them were born in the 1990s, and the youngest was 27 years old. Nearly 200 academicians, 19 university presidents, and 2 Nobel Prize winners from all over the world recommend candidates for the Green Orange Prize.

Professor Yao Yonggang received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2010 and 2013, and his doctor's degree from the University of Maryland in 2018. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and assistant researcher at the University of Maryland. In October 2020, he returned to China to join the School of Materials Science and Technology at our University. He has long been engaged in ultra-high temperature transient synthesis and manufacturing technology, especially the development of new energy materials and low-carbon rapid manufacturing technology. His achievements have been published in Science, Nature, Nat. Nano. Nat. Cata. He has published 44 papers, and his papers have been cited more than 10,000 times. He has been named to the Stanford University "Top 2% of Global Scientists" and Clarivate "Highly Cited Scientists" lists, and has received the U.S. 2020 R&D 100 award and 2022 Metals Young Investigator Award.