Concerned about safety, stability and limited resources of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), researchers now works for eco-friendly, large-scale next-generation electrochemical energy storage (EES) technology to find alternatives, among which sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are considered as a promising candidates. However, SIBs’ conversion is still limited owing to low energy density, poor cycling and rate performance and so on. Academician Jun Chen’s group has broken through in SIBs’ core issues inclu

On the occasion of the forthcoming centennial ceremony of the chemistry discipline of Nankai University, the 2021 Nankai International Forum for Young Chemists was successfully convened by means of online conference. Held for discussion of further development of the first-rate discipline, the forum adumbrated a brilliant future scenario of Nankai Chemistry in the next century. Five young scholars from home and abroad were selected by the College of Chemistry to attend the conference. Other atten

Metallic lithium is one of the most tempting anode candidates for building next-generation high-energy-density rechargeable batteries because of its ultrahigh specific capacity and low redox potential. However, the intrinsic issue is the unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) that induces the heterogeneous ionic diffusion and deposition of Li, ultimately causing uncontrolled dendrite growth. Propagation of dendrites and repeating breakup and reformation of SEI lead to the loss of active Li

The initial planning meeting of the 54th IChO Scientific Committee has been held in Tianjin on 27th and 28th January 2022. More than 30 experts and scholars from 11 universities gathered together. Professor Duan Lianyun from Peking University, chief director of the Competition Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, Professor Zheng Suping, Executive Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Chemical Society, and Professor Zhu Shoufei, Dean of the College of Chemistry, Nankai University attended

On 15 February 2021, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) announced the election of 174 new members as AIMBE Fellows in recognition of their outstanding achievements in medical and biological engineering. Prof. Dai-Wen Pang, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, was elected for outstanding contributions to the development of quantum dot-based methodologies for single-virus tracking. Other four Chinese scientists, Academician Kwok-fai So (Jinan University), Aca

On December 25, Prof. Yong Cui from SJTU (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) gave a lecture on design, synthesis and properties of chiral porous materials at the Academic Hall in Shixian Building, Balitai campus, Nankai University.Prof. Shoufei Zhu, Dean of the College of Chemistry, presided over the lecture and presented Professor Cui Yong with the certificate of “The Speaker of Chemistry of Nankai University Centennial Grand Forum”. A number of teachers and students of the college participated in

On November 7, the “Nankai University College of Chemistry 100th Anniversary Lecture” was held at Yuncheng No. 1 Middle School. Zhu Shoufei, Dean of the College of Chemistry, Nankai University, gave a report entitled “Chirality and Chiral Synthesis”. In the one-hour report, Prof.Zhu have given profound and lucid explanations around chirality and chiral synthesis, so that students have a basic understanding of chiral chemistry.Chiral molecules and their synthesis research have a wide range of app

On October 9th, Prof. Liuzhu Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, USTC) attended the Boling Lecture of College of Chemistry, Nankai University, and gave a report entitled Asymmetric Organo-Metal Combined Catalysis: Our Journey and Perspective in the Academic Lecture Hall of Shixian building, Balitai Campus. All the students from Boling classes and other teachers and students of College of Chemistry participated in this report. In the nearly two-hour report, Professor Gong share

As a cheap and easy-to-obtain transition metal, iron is abundant in the crust of earth, and has good biocompatibility. Therefore, the development of iron-catalyzed reactions has received increasing attention, and some important progress has been received. Nevertheless, due to the limited types of developed ligands applicable at this stage, the reported iron-based catalysts still have many problems in terms of reactivity, selectivity, types of substrates, functional group tolerance and stabilit

Glycosylation is an important means of modifying bioactive molecules in nature, and many natural products with important physiological activities have glycosylation modifications. In addition to the common O-glycosides and N-glycosides, C-glycoside structures are also widely present in natural products with biological activity. Since the C-glycoside structure has higher stability than O-glycoside and N-glycoside, and is not easily degraded by hydrolytic enzymes in vivo, C-glycosidation transfo

Concentrating on innovative breakthrough from 0 to 1, Zunfeng Liu, a professor of materials science in the post-80s of Nankai University, believed that the world of new materials has infinite charm. Many of his research results were published in international authoritative journals. From his point of view, the basic qualities of scientific researcher are curiosity and willpower. Zunfeng Liu set his sights on a less researched field. At present, air conditioners and refrigerators are widely us

The Nature Index released the Nature Index 2019 Annual Tables on April 30th, showing the high-quality scientific research output of different countries and scientific research institutions in the field of natural sciences. Among them, the Nature Index Table of Chemistry shows that institutions of China, France, and Germany rank among the top in the world in terms of high-quality chemical research output; especially, among the top ten scientific research institutions, China occupies 8 and is in

Recently, Prof. Jun Chen (academician of CAS and professor of Nankai University) and co-workers were invited by the editorial board of Nature Reviews Chemistry to publish a review entitled “Prospects of organic electrode materials for practical lithium batteries. In this review, the structural characteristics, mechanism of action and structure-activity relationship of organic electrode materials were described in detail, and the actual status and application were analyzed emphatically. These s

Circular polarized light (CPL) is an essential light source in many applications, including quantum computation, optical information processing and magnetic recording. Conventional optical CPL detectors rely on achiral photodetector with linear polarizer and quarter waveplate. Such complicated device configuration do not meet the demands of miniaturization trends, which is also incompatible with the emerging wearable technology. How to apply intrinsic chiral semiconductor to detect circularly p

The National Science and Technology Awards Conference was solemnly held in Beijing on the morning of Jan 10th, 2020. The project Discovery of Highly Efficient Chiral Spiro Catalysts (mainly completed by: Zhou Qilin, Xie Jianhua, Zhu Shoufei, Wang Lixin) led by Zhou Qilin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor of College of Chemistry, Nankai University, won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award. This is also the only project that won the first prize of