On October 15, the first “Frontiers in Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Sciences-Nankai Summit” was grandly held in the lecture hall of Shixian Building. This academic summit coincides with the 99th anniversary of Nankai University. The College of Chemistry invited 12 distinguished alumni from home and abroad as representatives to gather in Nankai and give cutting-edge academic reports on the development of chemistry and interdisciplinary subjects for celebrating the birthday of Nankai Universi

The Academician Chen Jun at College of Chemistry, Nankai University has made breakthroughs in the construction of sodium-free pre-filled “respirable” sodium-CO2 batteries using inexpensive sodium carbonate and carbon nanotubes. The research results are published in the first issue of Research. The primary version of the breathable battery is a lithium-oxygen battery, with lithium as the negative electrode and carbon, noble metal or transition metal oxide as air positive electrode. Greenhouse

To gain a deeper understanding of the effects of molecular self-assembly behavior on life activities, supramolecular chemists have designed different nano-assembly systems to accurately simulate and control the motion processes of living organisms. Among them, microtubules, as an important part of the cytoskeleton, play a key role in the process of cell mitosis. However, the polymerization and depolymerization of tubulin at the molecular level has always been a challenging task. Recently, Liu

Recently, the Vice President of Indiana University Shawn Reynolds and his team visited College of Chemistry, Nankai University. Dean and CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Academician Jun Chen, accompanied with Li Li (Vice Director of the International Academic Exchange Office) and Guangxin Liang (Vice Dean of College of Chemistry), welcomed the visitors in the chemistry building. On behalf of College of Chemistry, Dean Chen sent the warmest welcome to the guests and gave a short introduction

Zhang Donghui, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, deliver a report named “Watching Chemical Reactions in Computer” for students at the Academic Lecture Hall in Shixian Building at 7:00 pm on May 25th. Through attractive personal stories and dramatic research evidence, the report showed researchers’ effort in the development and application of calculational chemistry with passion and enthusiasm. Science of physical and calculational chemi

Silasubstitution of bioactive molecules has been regarded as a useful and efficient strategy for the development of new drugs. From a drug discovery viewpoint, investigations of sila(benzo)suberones are of great significance and in great demand. However, sila(benzo)suberones are surprisingly under-represented to date because of the lack of methodology to incorporate the silicon element into (benzo)suberones. Could the C-C δ-bond of cyclopropenones and the C-Si δ-bond of (benzo)silacyclobutanes

The Tianjin International Labor Day awards ceremony was held on April 26th. Tianjin party’s secretary Hongzhong Li and other leaders of Tianjin attended the ceremony. Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, prof. Jun Chen from Nankai University was awarded the “National May 1 Labor Medal”granted by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Leaders presented awards for Chen and other award-winning representatives. Jun Chen, an inorganic chemist, has been a professor and doctoral supervisor

Nankai International Talent Forum—2018 International Youth Chemists Forum was successfully held in the Academic Hall of Shixian Building, Nankai University on April 21, 2018. The Dean of College of Chemistry Chen Jun, party secretary Zhang Shoumin, vice Dean Sun Pingchuan, academic leaders of various disciplines, and 18 reporters as well as some teachers and students participated in this forum. First, Professor Chen Jun, the young teachers’ representative of college, Researcher Peng Qian and

Recently, 20 achievements from Nankai University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and other institutions were selected as top ten progresses of “basic researches” and top ten of “applied researches” at the “2017 China Optics Ten Progress” conference, held by Chinese Laser Press. The project Solution-processed organic tandem solar cells with power conversion efficiencies 12.7%, led by Prof. Chen Yongsheng (College of Chemistry, Nankai University), was honored

Developing high-performance rechargeable batteries is vital for regulating the energy output of intermittent solar and wind energy, which have been expected to occupy increasing proportions in energy distribution in light of the environmental issues caused by fossil energy. Batteries using organic electrodes are attractive electrochemical energy storage devices because organic compounds can be lightweight, environmentally friendly, and sustainable. Rechargeable zinc batteries (ZBs) are one of

Potassium-ion batteries (KIBs) are an emerging, promising battery technology for large-scale electric energy storage, because of the abundant potassium resources and redox potential of K+/K close to Li+/Li (-2.93 V vs.-3.04 V). These merit KIBs with potentially low cost and high energy density. The KIBs are based on the extraction/insertion of K+ from/into electrodes. However, the structure stability of electrode materials is plagued by the large-sized K+ (2.76 Å in size). How to build a KIB w

Two dimensional (2D) materials led by graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides exhibit unique physical properties dominated by their 2D honeycomb structures. They have attracted intense interest because of their significance for both basic science and potential applications. Inspired by the success of these systems, designing new artificial honeycomb lattices is a rapidly expanding area of research aimed at developing novel 2D materials with properties beyond those of existing systems. The

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 2018 International Youth Chemists Forum at Nankai University, which will be held on April 20-23th of 2018 in Tianjin, China. The topics of the forum cover all conventional areas of chemistry, as well as material science, energy chemistry, environmental chemistry, and chemical biology. Application for speaking at this forum is now open with the due date of March 20th, 2018. Applicants shall possess a PhD degree in chemistry or relate

The delegation from the ICCBS of the University of Karachi(Pakistan) visited the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry on 2nd Jan. On 3rd Jan, a constructive conversation between the members from delegation and principle members from the Key Lab was held. Academician Jun Chen, Dean of College of Chemistry, attended the meeting and extended warm welcome to the delegation on behalf of the college. Prof. Chunming Cui, director of the Key Lab, introduced Nankai University, College of

On November 28th, the fourth Nankai Chemistry Young Teachers Forum was held at the Yang Shixian Building. College leaders, academic leaders, middle-aged and young teachers, young teachers from other universities and graduate students attended the forum. Zhang Yongjun, Shi Wei and Wang Xiaochen, from College of Chemistry, Liu Zunfeng, from State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, respectively delivered speeches on hydrogels for biomedical applications, functional complex chemistry, b