On January 29, 2023, the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Photonic Nose and Molecular Materials Group held the 2022 annual report and summary meeting in No. 1668 conference room of Zhizhi Building, summarizing major progress of the group in teaching, research and team building in 2022, and planning the group’s work arrangement in 2023.

Group leader Prof. Fang Yu, group members and postdoctoral fellows attended the meeting.

First of all, Yang Xiaogang, director of the administrative office of the Institute of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials, reported on the progress of the Institute's infrastructure construction, the formulation of rules and regulations, the production of Chinese and English websites, and the development of cultural creative products.

Next, group members Liu Zhongshan, Liu Xiaoyan, Peng Haonan, Liu Taihong, Xue Dongxu, Ma Jiani, Peng Junxia, Bian Hongtao, Liu Kaiqiang, Liu Jing and Ding Liping reported on the research progress of colloidal and interface chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, photochemistry in fluorescence sensing, separation, moisturizing and interface bonding and group service, and put forward plans for the new year.

It can be seen from the reports that in the past year, although under repeated impact of the COVID outbreaks, the group has made significant progress in the control and application of the crystal state of dynamic covalent bonded organic framework materials, biomimetic lubrication functional polymer chemistry, energy transfer and mass transfer regulation of fluorescence sensing, two-photon technology and its application expansion, functionalization of metal-organic framework materials, ultrafast reaction mechanism, porous nanofiltration membranes and hygroscopic gels, fluorescence sensing arrays, ultrafast kinetics of anion recognition, supramolecular interface bonding and application based on supramolecular equilibrium control and interactive responsive fluorescence sensing.

After the presentations, Fang Yu first welcomed Dr. Liu Xiaoyan, who returned from her postdoctoral program in Sweden, and Dr. Bo Xin, who graduated from the University of New South Wales in Australia under the mentorship of Prof. Zhao Chuan. Then, in his concluding speech, Fang Yu affirmed the research results achieved by the group in 2022, and proposed that future research should be oriented to the world's scientific and technological frontier, the main economic battlefield, the major needs of China, and the life and health of the people. Fang Yu said that a qualified researcher must cultivate a bond with scientific research, do the most important thing in a limited life, learn to cooperate and learn from everyone's strengths, transform science and technology into productivity, combine science and art as one, and make seemingly boring academic research full of humanistic care for truth, goodness and beauty.

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