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

Prof. Chen Jun, dean of College of Chemistry of Nankai University, was elected to the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the youngest academician among the selectees according to the results released from the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Nov. 28th. Chen Jun, an inorganic chemist, served as a professor of Nankai University and doctoral supervisor from 2002. He is currently the dean of College of Chemistry and the director of Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistr

From October 20th to 22nd, the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry held the 2017 Annual Symposium and the Fourth Session of the Seventh Academic Committee. Participants included the Director of the Academic Committee, Academician Cheng Jinpei, Deputy Director of the Academic Committee, Academician Zhou Qilin, Committee Members, Academician Tong Zhenhe, Academician Huang Naizheng, Academician Ma Shengming, Academician Tu Yongqiang, Professor Wang Meixiang, Prof. Xi Zhen, Prof. Zh

Academician Yuliang Li, a well-known chemist from Institute of Chemistry (Chinese Academy of Sciences), delivered a report named Molecule Materials Aggregation: From 1 Dimension to 2 Dimension to the undergraduates from College of Chemistry at 7:00 p.m. of October 27th. Prof. Jun Chen, dean of the College of Chemistry, presided over the lecture. The lecture was started with the Chinese history of Zheng Hes Voyages showing the national strength to the world in the early Ming Dynasty. Then he dw

On October 18th, Professor Yunhang Hu was invited by Professor Liangnian He, from the State Key Laboratory of Elemental Organic Chemistry, to deliver a speech on Highly Efficient Visible Light Photocatalysis for Hydrogen Production and CO2 Conversion . Professor Hu first introduced the status quo of the clean energy and the development of hydrogen and solar energy. He then presented his research on highly efficient visible light photocatalysis for hydrogen and CO2 conversion. His group increas

On September 29th, Boling Lecture invited academican He Tian to deliver a lecture on “Precise Chemistry 2.0”. He Tian was a professor at East China University of Science Technology (ECUST) and was selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Science in 2011. Professor Chen Jun, Dean of the College of Chemistry, presided over the lecture. Professor Tian first talked about the definition of precise chemistry. Precise Chemistry is a dynamic molecular system which can be selected and controlled

The “Nankai-Scripps” Organic Chemistry Seminar was held on September 21, 2017. Proessor Yu Jinquan and Professor Phil S. Baran (from the Scripps Research Institute), Dr. Martin D. Eastgate (from Bristol-Myers Squibb), Professor Liang Guangxin and Professor Zhu Shoufei (from Nankai University) gave reports on scientific progress in their respective fields. Approximately 200 teachers and students attended the seminar. Professor Chen Gong presided over the opening ceremony and Professor Chen Jun,

Recently, Tianjin Education Commission published the result of the award of the Outstanding Teachers in Higher Education of Tianjin. Professor Ruan Wenjuan in the College of Chemistry received the award. The award of the Outstanding Teachers in Higher Education is aimed at further reforming the undergraduate education, improving the quality of teaching and cultivating students. The award was set up for teachers who teach undergraduate courses for a long time and have made great contributions,

6th Total Synthesis of Natural Products—Academic Conference for Youth (Chinese Chemical Society) was held at Nankai University from August 19th to 20th. The purposes of this conference are developing excellent academic traditions of scientists of the older generations and highlighting the important role of the synthesis of natural products in organic chemistry as well as building a favorable academic platform for communication for young scholars. The conference commissioned by Chinese Chemical

The first Peking University- Nankai University Inorganic Chemical Materials Symposium was held at Shixian Building of Nankai University from June 9th to 10th. Vice president of Peking University-academician Song Gao, vice president of Nankai University-academician Chunhua Yan, academician Qilin Zhou from Nankai University attended the opening ceremony of the symposium. Approximately 150 teachers and students from inorganic chemistry and related disciplines of Peking University and Nankai Unive

In these years, the developments in the synthesis and self-assembly of patchy nanoparticles have aroused increasing attention. Co-assembly of polymeric nanoparticles and protein molecules combines the advantages of polymeric materials and biomolecules, and will produce new functional materials. In this research, patchy micelles with quaternized poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA) cores and poly (oligo (ethylene glycol) monomethyl ether methacrylate) (POEGMA) coronae were prepa

Recently, Professor Liangnian He published a paper on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, reporting a breakthrough on Carbon Dioxide Fixation. He’s group reported Betaine as an excellent and sustainable organocatalyst for reductive functionalization of CO2 with various amines and diphenylsilane. This is the first report of selective two-, four-, and six-electron reduction of CO2 coupled with C-N bond formation. Betaine catalysis afforded products with diversified energy content i.e. formamide, aminal and met

Gene therapy has shown broad application prospects in tackling some of the diseases that threaten human health, like cancer and Parkinson’s disease. However, some challenges remain, especially because LMW cationic polymers perform far less efficiently than their high-molecular-weight counterparts, mainly due to weaker nucleic acid encapsulation. Prof. Guo Tianying of Nankai University’s College of Chemistry and his group recently reported the design and synthesis of a dipicolylamine-based dis