On May 6, 2024, Prof. Amirla Prasanna de Silva, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Queen’s University of Northern Ireland, U.K. was invited to visit the Institute of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials, and presented a report titled “A Tool, an App and a Field: Products of Supramolecular Photoscience from Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka”.

Prof. AP de Silva first introduced his nearly 40 years of research work, with a focus on the PET design he completed in Sri Lanka, and detailed the Off-On sensor for selective detection of sodium ions, and shared the knowledge of molecular logic calculation, explaining molecular logic edge detection through animal vision and machine vision, and stressing the importance of molecular logic computation.

Teachers and graduate students from the major of Physical Chemistry of the Institute and the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering attended in the report, which was chaired by Prof. Ding Liping, and they exchanged ideas with Prof. AP de Silva.