Recently, Yongsheng Chen and his group have made an unprecedented progress in the research of organic solar cells. They construct a tandem organic solar cell characteristic of absorbing a broader part of the solar spectrum using complementary absorptive subcells to minimize the thermalization loss of photon energy. The optimized devices achieve a power conversion efficiency of 12.50% (verified 12.70%), which represents a new level of capability for solution-processed, organic solar cells. The

Yang Shixian, one of the greatest chemists and educators in China, is the vanguard of Chinese pesticide chemistry, who was also the president of Nankai University and the founder of the Nankai Chemistry. January 8, 2017 is exactly the 120th anniversary of Yang’s birthday. The College of Chemistry held a seminar to commemorate Yang. The seminar was held at the Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry on December 5. The seminar was held by the Collaborative Innovation Center of 2011 and the Stat

January 8th, 2017 is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Yang Shixian, who is an outstanding representative of the scientists as well as educators of the older generation in China, a forefather of Pesticide Chemistry. He was the principal of Nankai University, and one of the major creators of the chemistry discipline. He played an important role in the nourishment of talents, improvement of scientific research and social service in the part of Nankai. He proposed that, “Chemistry should make

Last Friday, Professor Yu Jihong from Jilin University, the renowned Inorganic chemists and a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences gave a report entitled “Enter the Fantastic World of Nanoporous Materials: Construction and Application of Zeolitic nanoporous Materials” to undergraduates of Boling Class at the Academic hall of the Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry. Chen Jun, the Associate Dean of College of Chemistry hosted the lecture. Yu first introduced the main categories of porous m

Recently, Dr. Zhang Ning reported the application of nonstoichiometric ZnMn2O4/carbon composite as a new Zn-insertion cathode material in aqueous Zn(CF3SO3)2 electrolyte. This innovation improved the efficiency, safety and stability of the Zn-ion battery greatly. Related research has been published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. Zhang Ning is the first author and the instructor Cheng Fangyi is the corresponding author. The results are now patented. While lithium-ion batteries (L

The initiation and demonstration meeting of the National Key RD Program, the controllable mass preparation of macroscopic graphene material and its applications in optoelectronics, was held on October 29th and 30th. Professor Chen Yongsheng from Nankai University is in charge of the project. Gong Ke, the President of Nankai University, Yan Jinding, the director of High-tech Research and Development Center under the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Jia Di, Deputy Director of Tianjin Scie

Professor Chen Yongsheng, a devoted chemist of the college of Chemistry of Nankai University, presented a Boling lecture entitled “Nano and Polymer Functional Materials and Their Applications in Green Energy” for students from the Boling classes at the academic hall of the Institution of Elemento-organic Chemistry. Li Wei, associate dean of the college of Chemistry, hosted the lecture. At the beginning of the lecture, Chen briefly introduced himself and from his own experience, he exhorted th

From Oct 21st to Oct 23rd in 2016, the Third Meeting of the Seventh Academic Committee and Annual Academic Symposium were held under a lively academic atmosphere in Tianjin Binhai New Area. Academic Committee Members including Academician Cheng Jinpei, Academician Tong Zhenhe, Academician Huang Naizheng, Academician Lin Guoqiang, Academician Xi Zhenfeng, Academician Qian Xuhong, Academician Zhou Qilin, Professor Wang Meixiang, Professor Liu Yu, Professor Xi Zhen, Professor Cui Chunming, Profess

Professor Ben-Zhong Tang from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, an academician of Chinese Academy of Science and a well-known polymer chemist, gave a Boling lecture entitled “The Trilogy of Creative Research--things I learned from my research experience” at the academic hall of the Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry on the evening of Sep. 30, 2016. Academician Qilin Zhou addressed the opening ceremony. The evening saw so many students of varies grades being attracted to the

Recently, at the 6th New Returned Overseas Chinese Innovative and Entrepreneurship Achievements Exchange Meeting and inaugural meeting of the New Returned Overseas Chinese Innovative and Enterprising League, the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese commended individuals, achievements and groups that obtained Contribution Awards. Yu Liu, the Cheung Kong Scholar Distinguished Professor, and his group of supramolecular chemistry won the innovative team award of the 6th Contribution

Li Zhengming, a professor of the National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, is a famous organic chemist and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has undertaken about 10 research projects including 973 Program, National Key Technologies R D Program and projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China. So far he has already published 570 papers and applied for 32 patents. Lihas devoted himself to technological innovations and transformations of scientific achie

At the beginning of this semester, the College of Chemistry held a colloquium for young chemists who had been introduced in the past few years. Chen Jun, the deputy president of the College of Chemistry hosted the discussion, and Qu Kai, the party secretary and others attended the meeting. The 18 young scholars first briefly introduced their educational background, scientific research experience and research interests, after which, 6 of them, the freshly-recruited ones including Zi Weiwei, pr

Chen Gong’s and He Gang’s groups, from State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, reported an efficient strategy to achieve the syntheses of highly strained four-membered benzazetidines. Their method represents the first practical synthetic method for benzazetidines, which was thought to be a breakthrough in the synthesis of desired C-N cyclized products selectively. The journal Nature Chemistry published Chen’s research finding on August 1st. A heterocyclic compound is a cyclic compo

On July 15, 2016, the opening of the 3rd EOC forum was held at Union Buildings of Tianjin University and Nankai University. The EOC Symposium had launched by academician Zhou Qilin, and it opens annually in the charge of the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry with a different theme every year, and this years topic is “Transition Metal Catalysis for Organic Synthesis”. The symposium had invited 17 renowned chemists from worldwide to address academic lectures and 11 domestic ou

The International Talent Forum of Nankai University was inaugurated for the first time on June 24. Based on the platform of “State Key Disciplines” and “State Key Laboratories”, six sub-forums of different disciplines were to be held this year, among which, the “International Youth Chemists Forum”, the sub-forum of the College of Chemistry was the first. Zhu Liping, Deputy Secretary and Vice Chairman of Party Committee, and Xue Jinwen, Secretary of the Party Committee of Nankai University bot