Xi's Group

Welcome to Xi's group,

2020
	Dec. 11th to Dec. 13th, 2020, Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu, together with Dr. Peng Sun and Dr. Bo Qin, attended the 1st Reversible Cross-Linked Polymer Symposium held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. During the meeting, Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu gave an invited lecture titled "Recyclable Cross-Linked Supramolecular Polyureas". Dr. Bo Qin also demonstrated his works related to recyclable cross-linked supramolecular polyureas though poster, and was awarded the Best Poster Award.
	Oct. 9th to Oct. 12th, 2020, Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu, together with Dr. Bin Yuan, Bohan Tang and Zihe Yin, attended the CCS 2nd Photofunctional Materials Symposium for Young Scholars held in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. During the meeting, Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu gave an invited lecture titled "Near Infrared Dyes based on Supramolecular Radicals". Dr. Bin Yuan gave an oral lecture titled " Self-Degradable Supramolecular Photosensitizer with High Photodynamic Therapeutic Efficiency and Improved Safety". Bohan Tang and Zihe Yin demonstrated their works related to near infrared dyes based on supramolecular radicals and dissipative supramolecular polymerization powered by light though posters, respectively. Bohan Tang was awarded the Materials Chemistry Frontiers Best Poster Award.
	Jun. 20th, 2020, Dr. Bin Yuan accomplished his defense of postdoctoral report successfully online. Members of the defense committee fully recognized Dr. Bin Yuan’s research related to novel photodynamic therapeutic strategies based on BODIPY derivatives. They also discussed the prospect and future plan of his research. Congratulations to Dr. Bin Yuan, and wish him all the best!
	May 16th, 2020, Xiaoyan Tang, Yuchong Yang and Bo Qin accomplished their defenses of the requirement for the degree of PhD. Xiaoyan Tang’s, Yuchong Yang’s and Bo Qin’s research focus on supramolecular catalysis, antibacterial supramolecular materials and quadruple hydrogen bond-based supramolecular polymers, respectively. Members of the defense committee showed great interest on their excellent works and fully recognized their works. Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the defense meeting was hold both at Room 310, Hetian Building, Tsinghua University and online. Some teachers and students attended the defense meeting at Room 310, and others participated in the meeting online. Congratulations to Xiaoyan Tang, Yuchong Yang and Bo Qin!
2019
	Nov. 9th, 2019, Prof. Peng Zheng from Nanjing University, China, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “Investigations of Metalloproteins by Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy”.
	Oct. 16th to 19th, 2019, Prof. Xi Zhang and Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu, together with many postdoctoral fellow and PhD students, attended the 2019 Polymer Division (CCS) Congress held in Xi’an, China. Prof. Xi Zhang served as the chairman of the conference and delivered speeches at the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony, respectively. He also gave a lecture titled "Chemistry in Stamps" in Polymer Education Chapter. Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu gave an invited lecture titled "New Methods for Controllable Supramolecular Polymerization" in Macromolecular Self-assembly and Supramolecular Systems Chapter. Dr. Hua Wang gave an oral lecture titled “Supramolecular Peptide: a Platform for Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery” in Biomedical Polymer Chapter. All PhD students demonstrated their works though posters. Xiaoyan Tang was awarded the Best Poster Award, and Zihe Yin was awarded the CCS Chemistry Best Poster Award.
	Sept. 9th, 2019, Prof. Thomas Hermans from the University of Strasbourg, France, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “Dissipative Supramolecular Systems and Materials”.
	Jun. 23rd, 2019, Yincheng Chang and Yuetong Kang accomplished their defences of postdoctoral reports successfully. Members of the defense committee fully recognized Yincheng Chang’s research related to charge-reversal amphiphiles with cancer cell-selective membrane-disrupting activity and Yuetong Kang’s research related to the supramolecularly catalyzed polymerization based on cucurbit[8]uril and stilbazolium dyes. They also discussed the prospect and future plan of their research. Best wishes to Dr. Yincheng Chang and Dr. Yuetong Kang!
	Jun. 2nd to Jun. 7th, 2019, Yuchong Yang and Bohan Tang attended the 14th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems held in Berlin, Germany. During the meeting, they demonstrated their works though posters. Yuchong Yang’s poster is related to supramolecular stabilized radical anion for photothermal anti-bacterial therapy, and Bohan Tang’s poster is related to supramolecular activated radical cation.
	June 2nd, 2019, Linghui Chen and Lingda Zeng accomplished their defences of the requirement for the degree of PhD. Linghui Chen’s and Lingda Zeng’s research focus on photodynamic antibacterial and charge-reversal systems respectively. Members of the defense committee showed great interest on their excellent works and fully recognized their works.
	May 19th to May 24th, 2019, Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu, together with Dr. Bin Yuan, Shuai Zhang and Zihe Yin, attended the 2019 Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry, Gordon Research Conference held in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. During the meeting, Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu, Dr. Bin Yuan, Shuai Zhang and Zihe Yin demonstrated their works though posters. Their posters are related to supramolecular interfacial polymerization, tumor photodynamic therapy, supramolecular emulsion interfacial polymerization, and dissipative supramolecular polymerization, respectively.
	May 10th, 2019, the joint seminar between our group and the research groups of Prof. Junqi Sun, Prof. Wenke Zhang, Prof. Bo Zou, and Prof. Liyan Wang from Jilin University was held in Jilin University, China. Prof. Xi Zhang and Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu, together with other postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and undergraduates, attended the joint seminar. Prof. Wenke Zhang gave opening remarks at the beginning of the joint seminar. Bo Qin, Xiaoyan Tang, and Yuchong Yang from our group, together with Siheng Li, Zhiwei Ma, and Zhandong Li from Jilin University made oral reports. Prof. Xi Zhang and Prof. Liyan Wang summarized respectively. Prof. Xi Zhang said that the joint seminar promoted communication and cooperation between different research groups, and would continue to be held in the future.
	Apr. 22nd to Apr. 26th, 2019, Dr. Yincheng Chang and Han Wu attended the 2019 MRS Spring Meeting held in Phoenix, the United States. During the meeting, they mainly focused on the Supramolecular Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine and Drug Delivery Section. They also demonstrated their works though posters. Dr. Yincheng Chang’s poster is related to anticancer charge-reversal amphiphile, and Han Wu’s poster is related to supramolecular polymeric chemotherapy.
2018
	Dec. 19th, 2018, Prof. Karen Wooley from Taxas A&M University, the United States, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “Expanding the Scopes of Synthetic Organic and Polymer Chemistries: Utilization of the Inherent Stereochemical and Functional Diversities of Natural Products to Produce Functional Polymer Materials Designed for Advanced Applications and Sustainability”.
	Nov. 30th, 2018, Prof. Juyoung Yoon from Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “Recent Progress on Activatable Photosensitizers and Fluorescent Probes”.
	Nov. 21st, 2018, Prof. Takashi Nakanishi from the National Insitiute for Materials Science, Japan, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “Development of Solvent-free 'Liquid' Chromophores via Alkyl-π Engineering”.
	Nov. 14th, 2018, Prof. Omar M. Yaghi from University of California, Berkeley, the United States, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “Reticular Chemistry”.
	Oct. 17th, 2018, Prof. Itamar Willner from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “‘Smart Materials’ and Their Applications”.
	Oct. 15th, 2018, Prof. S. Ramakrishnan from Indian Institute of Science, India, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “Immiscibility-Driven Folding of Synthetic Polymers: Accessing sub-10 nm Scale Microphase Separation”.
	Aug. 29th, 2018, Prof. Jan H. van Esch from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “Fuel-Driven Active Materials”.
	Jul. 13th, 2018, Hao Chen accomplished his defence of postdoctoral reports successfully. Members of the defense committee fully recognized his research. They also discussed the prospect and future plan of the research. Wish Dr. Hao Chen all the best!
	May 29th, 2018, Prof. Christian Salesse from Laval University, Canada, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture titled “Photochemistry of vision”.
	May 25th, 2018, Zehuan Huang and Yang Jiao accomplished their defences of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	May 5th to 8th, 2018, Prof. Xi Zhang and Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu, together with other postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and undergraduates, attended the 31st Chinese Chemical Society Congress held in Hangzhou, China. Prof. Xi Zhang delivered a speech on behalf of the National Natural Science Foundation of China on the opening ceremony, and he also gave a lecture titled “Supramolecular Chemotherapy” on the Chemistry-An Innovation Forum. Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu gave an invited lecture titled "Supramolecular Interfacial Polymerization" in Supramolecular Self-assembly and Soft Materials Chapter. Many postdoctoral fellows and PhD students demonstrated their works though posters, and Yang Jiao and Yuchong Yang were awarded the Best Poster Award.
	Apr. 20th, 2018, Prof. Xin-Yuan Liu from Southern University of Science and Technology, China, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Radical-Mediated Asymmetric Reactions”.
2017
	Dec. 10th to 14th, 2017, Prof. Xi Zhang and Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu, together with all students, attended the 15th Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC-15) held in Xiamen, China. Prof. Xi Zhang served as chairman of the conference. Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu gave an invited lecture titled "Controllable Supramolecular Polymerization: From Solution to Interface". Dr. Hao Chen, Dr. Yuetong Kang, Zehuan Huang and Bo Qin demonstrated their works though posters, and Zehuan Huang was awarded the ACS Omega Best Poster Award.
	Dec. 9th, 2017, Tsinghua Polymer Symposium was held in the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University. Six famous scholars from research institutes around the world, including Stephen Z. D. Cheng, David Haddleton, Francoise Winnik, Mitsuo Sawamoto, Timothy P. Lodge and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, attended the symposium. Prof. Xi Zhang presided over the symposium and delivered opening remarks. Ten speakers were invited to give lectures related to research frontiers of polymer science. Prof. Stephen Z. D. Cheng made a brilliant summary of the symposium in his closing remarks. Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu gave a wonderful lecture entitled "Supramolecular Interfacial Polymerization". All the students in our group joined the symposium and served as volunteers.
	Oct. 16th 2017, Tsinghua-US Polymer Symposium was held in Tsinghua University. The symposium was organized by Prof. Huaping Xu and 14 lectures were delivered by the professors from American Chemical Society and Tsinghua University. Prof. Xi Zhang attended the symposium and gave opening remarks. Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu made a report about “Controllable Supramolecular Polymerization: From in Solutions to at Interfaces”. All the members joined the symposium and served as volunteers.
	Sep. 16th 2017, the final reports for the program of “Chemistry of molecular assemblies: Construction and dynamic regulation of hierarchical functional assemblies”, the National Basic Research Program (973), was held. Prof. Xi Zhang, the chief scientist of this program, hosted the meeting. Collaborative research groups from Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Jilin University, Institute of Chemistry, CAS and Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, gave reports on their research progress.
	Aug. 28th 2017, 3rd Tsinghua-Bristol Joint Symposium on “Frontiers of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” was held in Tsinghua University. During the symposium, 18 lectures were given by the professors and students from Tsinghua University and University of Bristol, UK. Prof. Xi Zhang served as the chair of Session 1. Zehuan Huang made a report about “Supramolecular Chemotherapy: Decreased Cytotoxicity and Enhanced Activity of Antitumor Drugs by Host-Guest Chemistry”. All the members joined the symposium and served as volunteers.
	Jul. 2nd – 6th 2017, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu and Zehuan Huang, Yang Jiao, Lingda Zeng, Linghui Chen, Bo Qin, Yuchong Yang attended the 12th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC-12) held in Cambridge, UK. Prof. Xi Zhang gave a plenary lecture about “Supramolecular free radicals”.
	May 27th 2017, Bin Yuan, Qiao Song and Yuetong Kang accomplished their defences of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	Mar. 27th 2017, Prof. Fengwei Huo from Nanjing Tech University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Parallel Scanning Optical Microscopy (PSOM)”.
	Mar. 27th 2017, Dr. Jiaxing Huang from Northwestern University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Curious Minds and Materials Discoveries”.
	Mar. 1st 2017, Dr. Mingfeng Wang from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Bioinspired multifunctional polymers: Emerging synthesis, processing and applications”.
	Feb. 23th 2017, Prof. Nicolas Giuseppone from University of Strasbourg, France, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Triarylamine-based Supramolecular Polymers: Structures, Dynamics, Functions”.
2016
	Dec. 10th 2016, Ruochen Fang accomplished his defense of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	Oct. 27th 2016, Prof. Zhibo Li from Qingdao University of Science and Technology visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about the principles and applications of Cryo-TEM.
	Oct. 26th 2016, Dr. Chao Wang from University of California, Riverside, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Self-Healing Polymers for Electronics, Energy Storage and Actuators”.
	Prof. Xi Zhang was honored with Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award (2016).
	Oct. 21th 2016, the joint seminar was held between our group and the research group of Prof. Shu Wang from Institute of Chemistry, CAS. During the seminar, Prof. Xi Zhang and Prof. Shu Wang gave wonderful opening remarks about the importance of communications and collaborations. Qiao Song, Zehuan Huang, Yang Jiao from our group and Haotian Bai, Han Sun, Lingyun Zhou from Shu Wang’s Group made oral reports on their research works.
	Oct. 19th 2016, Prof. Zheng-Rong Lu from Case Western Reserve University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the design of antitumor drug systems.
	Oct. 13th 2016, Prof. Quan Chen from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about Molecular rheology of polymers.
	Sep. 27th 2016, Prof. Christoph A. Schalley from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Supramolecular Gels: From Superhydrophobic and Slippery Surfaces to Directional Transport”.
	Sep. 23th 2016, Prof. Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Amphidynamic Materials and Molecular Machines Supramolecular and Extended Architectures”.
	Prof. Xi Zhang was elected as American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow in 2016.
	Jul. 1st – 4th 2016, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr. Jiang-Fei Xu and Ruochen Fang, Yuetong Kang, Bin Yuan, Zehuan Huang, Xiaoguang Liu, Linghui Chen, Lingda Zeng, Bo Qin, Xiaoyan Tang, Yuchong Yang, Yunhao Bai attended the 30th Chinese Chemical Society Congress held in Dalian University of Technology. Prof. Xi Zhang gave an invited lecture about “Supramolecular free radicals”.
	Jun. 23th 2016, Jiangfei Xu accomplished his defence of postdoctoral reports successfully.
	Jun. 15th 2016, Prof. Liming Zhang from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Oxidative Gold Catalysis: A “Golden” Strategy to Structural Complexity”.
	Jun. 14th 2016, Prof. Xiaodong Chen from Nanyang Technological University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Silk Electronic Road: Adding Autonomy to An Ancient Material”.
	May 25th 2016, Prof. Jihong Yu from Jilin University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “The Design and Construction of Porous Molecular Sieve Materials”.
	May 24th 2016, Jun Xu accomplished his defense of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	May 13th 2016, Prof. Hans-Jürgen Butt from Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Design Principles of Super Liquid-Repellent Surfaces”.
	May 11th 2016, Dr. David A. Fulton from Newcastle University, UK, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Structurally-Adaptive Polymers with Dynamic Covalent Chemistry”.
	Apr. 7th 2016, Dr. Subi Jacob George from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Thermodynamic and Kinetic Control over Growth of Supramolecular Stacks”.
	Mar. 24th 2016, Prof. Runhui Liu from East China University of Science and Technology visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Antimicrobial Nylon-3 as Synthetic Mimics of Host Defense Peptide”.
	Mar. 11th 2016, Prof. Yongfeng Zhou from Shanghai Jiao Tong University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “The Unique Self-Assembly Properties of Hyperbranched Polymers”.
	Mar. 11th 2016, Prof. Chao Gao from Zhejiang University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Graphene-Based Macro-Assembled Materials”.
2015
	Dec. 15th to 20th 2015, Prof. Xi Zhang and Zehuan Huang, Linghui Chen attended the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies 2015 held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Prof. Xi Zhang gave two lectures about “Molecular self-sorting for controllable suprapolymerization” and “Supra-amphiphiles: From molecular architectures to functions”, respectively.
	Dec. 9th to 13th 2015, Prof. Xi Zhang and Zehuan Huang attended the 14th Pacific Polymer Conference held in Kauai Island, Hawaii, USA. During the conference, Prof. Xi Zhang gave a plenary lecture about “Controllable suprapolymerization” and was elected as new president of Pacific Polymer Federation.
	Nov. 19th 2015, Prof. Rint Sijbesma, from Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Mechanofunctional polymers: Luminescent probes & Catalytic triggers”.
	Nov. 7th 2015, the joint seminar was held among our group, the research group of Prof. Huaping Xu, Tsinghua University, and the research group of Prof. Yapei Wang, Renmin University of China. During the seminar, Prof. Xi Zhang gave a wonderful lecture about “The story behind the discovery of Qinghaosu” for a brief introduction of 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Yang Jiao, Zhen Wang, Yonglin He, Linghui Chen and Xinyue Zhang made oral reports on their research works.
	Sep. 6th – 9th 2015, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr. Jiangfei Xu and Yuetong Kang, Qiao Song, Zehuan Huang, Yang Jiao, Xiaoguang Liu, Linghui Chen attended the 4th International Supramolecular System Symposium held in Changchun. Prof. Xi Zhang gave a plenary lecture about “Controllable Supramolecular Polymerization”.
	Sep. 4th 2015, Prof. Rafal Klajn from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Dynamically Self-assembling Nanoflasks”.
	Aug. 26th 2015, Prof. Shanju Zhang, from California Polytechnic State University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Directed Self-Assembly of Conjugated Molecules”.
	Jun. 28th – Jul. 2nd 2015, Dr. Jiangfei Xu and Yuetong Kang, Yang Jiao attended the 10th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC-10) held in Strasbourg, France.
	Jun. 24th 2015, Dr. Jianguo Mei from Purdue University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “From Silicon to Carbon: Organic Semiconductors for Emerging Electronic Applications”.
	Jun. 5th 2015, Prof. Zhenan Bao from Stanford University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Skin-inspired Electronics from Organic and Carbon Nanomaterials”.
	Jun. 4th 2015, Huifeng Ren, Guangtong Wang and Xinxin Tan accomplished their defences of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	Jun. 3rd 2015, Prof. Lifeng Chi from Soochow University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “On-surface Chemistry”.
	May 15th 2015, Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Macromolecular Engineering by Taming Free Radicals”.
	May 13th 2015, Prof. Yue Zhao from Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Control of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers by New Methods and Materials Design”.
	May 5th 2015, Prof. Chi Wu from The Chinese University of Hong Kong visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “How to map phase diagram of a polymer solution? Microfluidics marries light scattering”.
	Apr. 22th 2015, Linlin Yang accomplished his defence of postdoctoral reports successfully.
	Apr. 15th – 17th 2015, Xinxin Tan and Bin Yuan attended the 7th Sino-German Joint Symposium on Frontiers of Functional Supramolecular Systems held in Münster University, Germany.
	Mar. 22th – 26th 2015, Prof. Xi Zhang and Ruochen Fang, Qiao Song, Bin Yuan attended the 249th American Chemical Society Congress held in Denver, USA. During the conference, Prof. Xi Zhang gave a lecture about “New Methodology for Controlled Supramolecular Polymerization”.
	Jan. 20th 2015, Dr. Wenxin Wang, from University College Dublin, Ireland, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Controlled Polymerization of Multivinyl Monomers”.
2014
	Dec. 26th 2014, Prof. Xuesi Chen from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Preparation and evaluation of anticancer nanodrugs with polyamino acid carrier”.
	Dec. 18th 2014, Prof. Pascal Jonkheijm from University of Twente, Netherlands, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Molecularly Engineering Cell-surface Interfaces”.
	Dec. 12th 2014, Prof. Bo Zou from Jilin University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Supramolecular chemistry under high pressure and their applications”.
	Dec. 9th 2014, Prof. Zhuang Liu from Soochow University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Nano-theranostics for imaging-guided photo therapy of cancer”.
	Nov. 27th 2014, Prof. Hongbin Li from University of British Columbia, Canada, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Rationally Designed Protein Hydrogels with Dynamically Tunable Mechanical Properties”.
	Nov. 27th 2014, Prof. Goran Ungar from University of Sheffield, UK, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Periodic and Aperiodic Tiling by Self-Assembling Molecules”.
	Nov. 13th 2014, Guanglu Wu accomplished his defence of postdoctoral report successfully.
	Oct. 17th 2014, Tsinghua-Delft Bilateral Workshop was held in Tsinghua University. Prof. Xi Zhang made an opening speech. Dr. Huaping Xu gave a lecture about “ROS responsive Selenium-containing Polymers”. All the group members joined this symposium and served as volunteers.
	Oct. 15th 2014, Prof. Andrew K. Whittaker from University of Queensland, Australia visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Molecular Imaging Agents Responsive to In Vivo Signals”.
	Oct. 13th 2014, Dr. Lidong Qin, from Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Molecular and Cellular Diagnostics via Innovative Microfluidics Biotechnology”.
	Sep. 24th 2014, Prof. Thomas McCarthy, from University of Massachusetts, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Interface Science with Silicone Chemistry”.
	Sep. 18th – 21th 2014, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr. Huaping Xu and Xinxin Tan, Bin Yuan, Zehuan Huang, Lu Wang attended the 6th Sino-German Joint Symposium on Frontiers of Functional Supramolecular Systems held in SuZhou University.
	Sep. 15th 2014, Prof. Niveen M. Khashab, from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Electrostatic Self Assembly of Smart Nano Carriers”.
	Aug. 9th – 14th 2014, Prof. Xi Zhang and Guangtong Wang, Zehuan Huang attended the 248th American Chemical Society Congress held in San Francisco, USA. During the conference, Prof. Xi Zhang gave 3 lectures about “Supra-amphiphiles”, “Controlled Supramolecular Polymerization” and “Selenium-containing Polymers”, respectively.
	Aug. 8th 2014, the midterm panel evaluation for the program of “Chemistry of molecular assemblies: Construction and dynamic regulation of hierarchical functional assemblies”, the National Basic Research Program (973), was held in Wenjin International hotel.
	Aug. 4th – 7th 2014, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr. Huaping Xu, Dr. Guanglu Wu and Kai Liu, Wei Cao, Zehuan Huang, Jun Xu attended the 29th Chinese Chemical Society Congress held in Peking University, Beijing.
	Jun. 18th 2014, Prof. Jin Zhong Zhang, from University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Novel Optical Properties of Nanomaterials and Their Energy and Biomedical Applications”.
	Jun. 13th 2014, Prof. Jeremy K. M. Sanders, from University of Cambridge, UK, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Adventures in Molecular Recognition：Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry and Supramolecular Nanotubes”.
	Jun. 7th – 11th 2014, Prof. Xi Zhang attended the 9th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC-9) held in Shanghai, China. During the conference, Prof. Xi Zhang gave a plenary lecture about “Supramolecular Polymerization Based on Host-enhanced Noncovalent Interactions: From Monomers to Supramonomers”.
	Jun. 3rd 2014, Peng Han, Yan Ding and Kai Liu accomplished their defences of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	May to June 2014, Fei Li and Hui Yang accomplished their defences of postdoctoral reports successfully, respectively.
	Apr. 2nd 2014, Dr. Peter Gregory, editor in chief of Advanced Materials, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Publishing in Wiley Materials Science Journals：How to Maximise Your Success”.
	Feb. 28th 2014, Prof. Lee Cronin, from University of Glasgow, UK, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Networking Complex Chemical Systems”.
	Jan. 13th 2014, Dr. Thien H. Ngo, from National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Functional Porphyrinoid Conjugates — A journey from Corrole Synthesis to Supramolecular Chemistry”.
2013
	Dec. 20th 2013, Dr. Chao Wang from Stanford University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Self-Healing Electronic Skin and Lithium Ion Battery”.
	Nov. 18th – 20th 2013, Dr. LiulinYang and Dr. Hui Yang attended the 3rd International Conference on Cucurbiturils held in Canberra, Australia.
	Nov. 20th 2013, Prof. Xiong Gong from University of Akron, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “High performance polymer solar cells through device engineering and novel materials”.
	Oct. 21st 2013, Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize winner in1987, from University of Strasbourg, France, visited Department of Chemistry and gave two lectures about “Perspectives in Chemistry: From Molecular to Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry” at lectur hall 301 of Chemistry Building and Tsinghua School, respectively.
	Oct. 17th 2013, 3rd CCS-PD/ACS-PMSE Joint Symposium on Polymers (Beijing) was held in Tsinghua University. Prof. Xi Zhang made an opening speech. Dr. Huaping Xu made a report on “Selenium-containing Polymers: A Promising New Biomaterial?”.
	Oct. 12th – 16th, 2013, 17th Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr. Huaping Xu, Dr. Liulin Yang and Peng Han, Huifeng Ren, Wei Cao attended the 17th China Polymer Symposium held in Donghua University in Shanghai. During the conference, Prof. Xi Zhang gave a plenary lecture on supramolecular polymers, Dr. Huaping Xu made a speech about selenium-containing polymers.
	Sep. 20th 2013, Prof. Helmut Zacharias, from University of Münster, Germany, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Helical organic molecules: effective electron spin filters”.
	Sep. 9th 2013, 1st Tsinghua-Bristol Joint Nanoscience Symposium was held in Tsinghua University. Prof. Xi Zhang made an opening speech. Dr. Huaping Xu made a report on “Redox responsive selenium-containing polymer assemblies”.
	Sep. 6th 2013, Prof. Richard Weiss, senior editor for Langmuir, from Georgetown University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Simple Molecules and Simple Chemistry Yield Complex Materials through Self-Assembly”.
	Sep. 4th 2013, Asst. Prof. Xing Yi Ling from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Chemical etching and self-assembly of Ag nanowires to increase hot spots for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy application”.
	Jun. 30th – Jul. 5th, 2013, Dr. Huaping Xu attended the 7th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT2013) in Singapore. Jul. 17th – 19th, 2013, Dr. Huaping Xu attended the 1st Asian conference for “MONODUKURI” Strategy by Synthetic Organic Chemistry (ACMS) in Japan. Jul. 29th – 30th, 2013, Dr. Huaping Xu attended the 3rd Fudan-Warwick Macromolecular Symposia: Extending the UK-China Network in Zhejiang. Sep. 4th – 7th, 2013, Dr. Huaping Xu attended the ChinaNANO2013 Conference in Beijing.
	Jul. 5th, 2013, Prof. Stuart J. Rowan from Case Western Reserve University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Using dynamic chemistry to access stimuli-responsive materials”.
	Jun. 28th, 2013, Prof. Myongsoo Lee from Jilin University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a fascinating lecture on “Beyond molecules: from molecular assembly to supramolecular materials”.
	Jun. 5th – 8th, 2013, Prof. Xi Zhang and Xinxin Tan, Wei Cao, Bin Yuan attended the 5th International TRR61 Symposium held in Munster, Germany. During the conference, Xinxin Tan gave an oral report about single molecular force spectroscopy.
	May 29th, 2013, Yiliu Liu accomplished his defence of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	May 21th – 23th, 2013, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr. Guanglu Wu and Ruochen Fang attended the 3rd International Symposium - Frontiers in Polymer Science 2013 held in Spain. During the conference, Prof. Zhang gave a plenary lecture about “Supramolecular polymerization driven by host-enhanced π-π noncovalent interactions”.
	May 17th, 2013, Prof. Hongbin Li from University of British Columbia, Canada, visited our group and gave a lecture on “How does the simple metalloprotein rubredoxin unfold – a single molecule force spectroscopy perspective”.
	May 17th, 2013, Dr. Chao Wang from Stanford University, USA, visited our group and gave an interesting lecture on “A self-healing electronic skin”.
	May 14th, 2013, Prof. Shaoyi Jiang from University of Washington, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “Molecular understanding, design and development of ultra low fouling zwitterionic-based functional materials”.
	May 5th – 10th, 2013, Prof. Xi Zhang and Yan Ding, Guangtong Wang, Jun Xu attended the Gordon Research Conference on Self-assembly & Supramolecular Chemistry held in Switzerland. During the conference, Prof. Zhang gave a plenary lecture about “Supra-amphiphiles for controlled self-assembly and disassembly”.
	Apr. 21st - 24th, 2013, Sino-German Joint Symposium on Frontiers of Functional Supramolecular Systems was held in Tsinghua University. Prof. Xi Zhang made an opening speech and gave a lecture about “Supramolecular polymerization driven by host-enhanced noncovalent interactions”. Dr. Huaping Xu made a report on “Selenium-containing polymers”.
	Mar. 18th, 2013, Prof. Adah Almutairi from University of California, San Diego, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “The art of falling apart: exploiting nanomaterial disassembly for health sciences”.
	Feb. 27th, 2013, Dr. Laurean Ilies from University of Tokyo, Japan, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Organoiron species in catalysis: C-H activation and related stories”.
	Jan. 15th, 2013, Dr. Oren Scherman from University of Cambridge, UK, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Dynamic self-assembled materials in water”.
	Jan. 15th, 2013, Prof. Alexander(DeQuan) Li from Washington State University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “Photoswitching-enabled revolutionary imaging technologies impart ultrasensitive detections in biological applications”.
2012
	Dec. 14th, 2012, Guanglu Wu accomplished his defences of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	Nov. 28th, 2012, Prof. Steve Granick from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave an interesting lecture on “Some surprises and open questions in materials chemistry”.
	Nov. 28th, 2012, Dr. Peter Gregory, the editor-in-chief of Advanced Materials , visited Department of Chemistry and gave a talk on “Publishing in Wiley Materials Science Journals: how to maximize your success”.
	Nov. 1st, 2012, Prof. Marie Paule Pileni from University Pierre & Marie Curie, France, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “Nanocrystallinity and supracrystallinity: a real challenge”.
	Oct. 31st, 2012, Prof. Wai-Yeung Wong from Hong Kong Baptist University, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Multifunctional metallopolyynes and metallophosphors: from molecular design and synthesis to applications”.
	Oct. 26th, 2012, Prof. Eiichi Nakamura from University of Tokyo, Japan, visited Department of Chemistry and gave an interesting lecture on “Organoelectronis research guided by new reactions and new molecules”.
	Oct. 25th, 2012, Prof. Zheng-Rong Lu from Case Western Reserve University , USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Peptide targeted paramagnetic chelates for MR molecular imaging”.
	Oct. 20th, 2012, Prof. Sankaran Thayumanavan from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Stimuli-sensitive polymeric supramolecular assemblies”.
	Sep. 26th – 29th, 2012, Dr. Huaping Xu attended the 3rd Sino-French Bilateral Seminar on Macromolecules and Soft Matte r held in Hefei, China, and gave a lecture about “Selenium-containing polymers: from molecular design to controlled self-assembly and disassembly”.
	Sep. 17th, 2012, Yiliu Liu and Jun Xu attended the 3rd Unilever-RSC International Symposium on Functional Materials Science held in ICCAS, Beijing. During the conference, Yiliu Liu gave a report on “Host-enhanced noncovalent interaction for supramolecular polymerization”.
	Sep. 2nd – 6th, 2012, Prof. Xi Zhang and Dr. Huaping Xu attended the 4th Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium held in Beijing, China. Dr. Xu gave a lecture on “Stimuli-responsive selenium-containing polymer assemblies”.
	Sep. 4th, 2012, 1st Polymer Chemistry International Symposium was held in Tsinghua University. Prof. Xi Zhang attended the symposium and made opening remarks. All the group members joined this symposium and served as volunteers.
	Aug. 30th, 2012, Prof. Rein Ulijn from University of Strathclyde, UK, visited our lab and gave a lecture on “Bio-inspired adaptive chemical systems”.
	Aug. 28th, 2012, Dr. Charl FJ Faul from Bristol University, UK, visited our lab and gave a lecture about “Designer function and supramolecular structure in electroactive materials”.
	Jun. 9th – 12th, 2012, Dr. Huaping Xu and Kai Liu attended the Warwick Polymer Conference 2012 held in University of Warwick, UK. Dr. Xu gave a lecture about “Selenium-containing polymers”. After the conference, Dr. Xu and Kai Liu visited the University of Bristol.
	Jun. 24th – 29th, 2012, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr Huaping Xu, Yiliu Liu and Peng Han attended the World Polymer Congress held in Virginia Tech University, USA. During the conference, Prof. Zhang gave a plenary lecture about “Single-molecule force spectroscopy and polymer interactions”, Dr. Xu made an oral report on “Selenium-containing polymers”.
	Jun. 7th, 2012, Dr. Qiaobin Xu from Tufts University, USA, visited our lab and gave a lecture about “Nanotechnology for drug delivery and tissue engineering”.
	May 31th, 2012, Prof. Harm-Anton Klok from Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “Combating diseases with peptide-synthetic polymer conjugates”.
	May 29th – 31st, 2012, Dr. Huaping Xu attended the 61 st SPSJ Annual Meeting as An Invited Lecturer of Asian Excellence. Dr. Xu gave a lecture about “Selenium-containing Polymers: from Molecular Design to Controlled Self-assembly and Disassembly”. After the conference, Dr. Xu visited the School of Engineering of the University of Tokyo.
	May 29th, 2012, Prof. Yuri M. Lvov from Louisiana Tech University, USA, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Nanocontainers for sustained release of protective agents and drugs: tubes and capsules”.
	May 29th, 2012, Dr. Xiaodong Chen from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “Bio-inspired material for energy conversion and storage”.
	May 28th, 2012, Prof. Chi Wu Chen from Chinese University of Hong Kong visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “How free cationic chains promote gene transfection”.
	May 25th, 2012, Yibo Xing accomplished his defences of the requirement for the MS degree.
	May 22nd, 2012, Prof. Jacob Klein from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “Hydrophobic interactions: not what you think”.
	May 13rd – 18th, 2012, Prof. Xi Zhang attended the 14th Conference of the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists held in Sendai, Japan. During the conference, Prof. Zhang gave a plenary lecture about “Supra-amphiphiles for controlled assembly and disassembly”.
	Apr. 25th, 2012, Prof. Jonathan W. Steed from Durham University, UK, visited our lab and gave a wonderful lecture about “Supramolecular gels: responsive soft materials”.
	Apr. 13rd – 16th, 2012, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr Huaping Xu, Kai Liu and Yibo Xing attended the 28th Chinese Chemical Society Congress held in Sichuan University, Chengdu. During the conference, Prof. Zhang attended the China-Netherland Joint Symposium on Frontiers of Supramolecular Science and made an opening speech. Dr. Xu was honored with the 2011 Young Chemist Award of the Chinese Chemical Society and gave an invited talk on “Selenium-containing polymers and controlled self-assembly”.
	Apr. 11st, 2012, Tsinghua-Netherland Joint Symposium on Frontiers of Supramolecular Science was held in Tsinghua University. Prof. Xi Zhang made an opening speech and gave a lecture about “Supramolecular polymerization driven by host-enhanced noncovalent interactions”. All the group members joined this symposium and served as volunteers.
	Apr. 3rd, 2012, Dr. Jun Ma from University of South Australia visited our lab and gave a lecture about “From silicate layers to graphene platelets for polymer nanocomposites”.
	Feb. 20th, 2012, Dr. Koji Harano from the University of Tokyo, Japan, visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “Supramolecular chemistry on functionalized nanocarbons: vesicles and crystal growth”.
	Feb. 12nd – 15th, 2012, Prof. Xi Zhang attended the Australian Polymer Sciences Conference held in Tasmania, Australia. During the conference, Prof. Zhang gave a plenary lecture about “Stimuli-responsive polymeric superamphiphiles for controlled self-assembly”.
	D r. Huaping Xu was honored the 2011 Young Chemist Award of the Chinese Chemical Society. In total 10 young scientists received the award this year.
2011
	D ec. 27th, 2011, Prof. Shi-Qing Wang from University of Akron visited our lab and gave a lecture on “ What has happened in polymer rheology five years later: emergence of a new worldview ”.
	D ec. 26th, 2011, Dr. Fengwei Huo from Nanyang Technological University visited our lab and gave a lecture about “ Imparting functionality to metal-organic framework materials by controlled nanomaterials encapsulation ”.
	Dec. 1st, 2011, Prof. Steve Granick from UIUC visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “ Some curious aspect of soft and squishly matter ”.
	Nov. 22rd, 2011, Prof. Ivan HUC from Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “ Foldamers: expanding the chemical space ”.
	O ct. 22rd, 2011, Prof. Zhiyuan Zhong from Soochow University visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “ Biologically responsive polymeric nano-drug and gene carrier ”.
	Oct. 19th, 2011, Prof. Jeffrey Moore from UIUC visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “ The mechanophore: a functional π-system for mechanoresponsive materials ”.
	Oct. 16th, 2011, Prof. Frank Würthner from Universität Würzburg visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “ Functional nanosystems based on dye aggregates ”.
	Sep. 24th – 28th, 2011, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr Huaping Xu, Jiawei Zhang, Huifeng Ren and Guangtong Wang attended the National Polymer Symposium of China. During the conference, Prof. Zhang gave an invited talk about “ A new supramolecular polymerization method based on multiple host enhanced charge-transfer interactions ” , Dr. Xu gave an oral report on “ Selenium containing polymers ” .
	Sep. 15th, 2011, Prof. David Hu from Georgia Institute of Technology visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “ Ant rafts and other mater-repellent systems ”.
	Sep. 6th, 2011, Prof. Oren Scherman from Cambridge University visited our lab and gave a lecture about “Cucurbiturils at interface between supramolecular chemistry and material science”. In the afternoon, the joint seminar between our group and the research group of Prof. Oren was held, Feng Tian, Yiliu Liu, Dezhi Jiao, Kai Liu reported their works.
	Sep. 2nd - 5th, 2011, Prof. Xi Zhang joined The International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS6) in Peking University, and gave a plenary lecture on “Superamphiphiles for controlled self-assembly”. All the group members attended this symposium.
	Aug. 6th, 2011, Prof. Mitchell A Winnik from University of Toronto visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “ One-dimensional patterned nanowires of uniform length by self-assembly of coil-crystalline block copolymers ”.
	June 22th, 2011, 50 Years Angewandte Chemie International Edition Symposium was held in Tsinghua University. Prof. Xi Zhang made an opening speech and gave a lecture about “ Superamphiphiles for Controlled Self-Assembly and Disassembly ”. Dr. Huaping Xu served as secretary of the symposium. All the group members joined this symposium and served as volunteers, Dr. Chao Wang was awarded the best poster paper of the conference.
	May 24th, 2011, Fang Liu, Pengbo Wan, Zhenhua Jiang, Zhihua Liu, Chao Wang accomplished their defences of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	May 8th - 11st, 2011, Prof. Xi Zhang joined The 1st International Symposium on Colloids and Materials in Amsterdam, Dutch. Prof. Zhang gave a plenary lecture on “ Superamphiphile for controlled self-assembly ”.
	Apr.5th, 2011, Prof. Carsten Schmuck from University of Duisburg-Essen visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture on “ Fascination Supramolecular Chemistry: from the recognition of biomolecules to switchable nanoassemblies ”.
	Apr. 2nd - 6th, 2011, Prof. Charl FJ Faul from University of Bristol visited our group and gave a series of lectures on liquid crystals to the group members.
	Mar. 21st, 2011, Dr. Pascal Jonkheijm from University of Twente visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture about “ Strategies for immobilization of biomolecules ”.
2010
	Dr. Huaping Xu et al. have reported the selective load and transfer of positively charged functional species using a surface molecular imprinted layer-by-layer film attached to PDMS stamps (SMILbL-PDMS). This work was published on Advanced Materials (2010, 22, 2689), and Highlighted by NPG Asia Materials titled by“Surface printing: Stamp of approval”.
	Sep. 6th, 2010, the joint seminar between our group and the research group of Dr. Zhibo Li, Institute of Chemistry, CAS were held at Room 406, Hetian building.
	In Aug. 11th-15th, 2010, Dr. Huaping Xu joined third Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium at Kloster Seeon, Germany, which was first initiated by German Chemical Society (GDCh) and Chinese Chemical Society (CCS). After this main symposium, Dr. Huaping Xu and 6 other Chinese delegates joined the Satellite Meeting-Materials Chemistry at Konstanz from Aug. 15th to 17th.
	In July 18th-21th, 2010, Prof. Zhang took part in 13th International Conference on Organized Molecular Films (LB13), which was hold in Quebec City, Canada. Prof. Zhang gave a report as an invited speaker and was selected to be on the International advisory committee of Organized Molecular Films.
	July 9th-31st, 2010, Steffen Kanzler, a PhD student from University of Müenster, Germany, stayed in our group for three weeks, to carry out an investigation on the collaboration between researchers from China and Germany in the TRR61 joint project.
	June 24th, 2010, “China-UK workshop on frontiers of supramolecular chemistry” was held in 406 Meeting Hall of Hetian building. The work shop was coorganized by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK and the department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University.
	Prof. Zhang was awarded the Akzo-Nobel chemical prize of CCS in June 20th, when he took part in the 27th Chinese Chemical Society Annual Meeting & Exposition, 2010,Xiamen.
	June 14th, 2010, Prof. Mitchell A. Winnik (University of Toronto, Canada) visited our lab.
	June 11th, 2010, Yiheng Zhang, Jian Gao and Ying Yu accomplished their defences of the requirement for the degree of PhD.
	During April-May, 2010, some professors from Europe and Suzhou--Charl FJ Faul (University of Bristol, UK), Prof. Gerhard Wilde and Prof. Yong Lei (University of Muenster, Germany), and Hongwei Ma (Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), CAS, China) visited our lab and gave a lecture to the department.
	April 22nd, 2010, the ceremony of EDIC Cup Scholarship was held in the Lecture Hall of School of Science, Tsinghua University. Chao Wang from our group was awarded as the first level and gave a presentation at the ceremony.
	March 18th -20th, 2010, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr. Huaping Xu, Ning Ma and Chao Wang attended the United States for ACS Spring 2010 Annual Meeting & Exposition at San Francisco.
	March 15th -20th, 2010, Bart Jan Ravoo from University of Müenster, WWU, Germany, came to Tsinghua. He gave three tutorials to our group member as well as a general lecture to all the members in department of chemistry.
	Jan. 29th, 2010, the joint seminar between our group and the research group of Prof. Tingbing Cao were held at Renmin university of China.
2009
	Oct. 26th-31st, 2009, “US-China Workshop for Early Career Chemical Scientists-SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY” was held at Tsinghua University. Prof. Xi Zhang gave a talk about “Supramolecular Amphiphiles for Controlled Self-assembly and Disassembly”.
	Oct 14th, 2009, Prof. Takashi Kato from Tokyo University visited Department of Chemistry.
	Oct. 5th-7th, 2009, the Second International TRR 61 Symposium was held at University of Münster, Germany. Some of our group members attended the symposium and Prof. Xi Zhang gave an invited talk about “How to realize controlled self-assembly and disassembly”. Consequently, a workshop of the German and Chinese students was also organized.
	On Oct. 8th, Prof. Xi Zhang, Dr. Huaping Xu and 9 Ph. D. students visited MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, the Netherlands, where a joint symposium was held together with four groups from Twente (MnF, SMCT, MTP, BNT).
	The Paper about Redox Responsive Supramolecular Amphiphiles was selected as Hot Article by Chemical Communications.
	Sept.2nd, Prof. Marie-Paule Pileni (University of Pierre & Marie Curie, France) visited our lab and gave a lecture.
	Sep. 1st , Prof. Alexander (Sasha) V. Kabanov (University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA) visited our lab and gave a lecture.
	Aug. 18th to 22nd, in the National Polymer Symposium of China, Prof. Xi was awarded “Prize for Honored Invited Lecture in Polymer Science” and invited to give a plenary lecture of “Molecular Self-Assembly and Ordered Thin Film”.
	Aug. 10th to 17th, 2009, the summer school about “Chemistry beyond Molecular Level: Molecular Self-Assembly and Biological Simulation” was held in Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University.
	July 17th to 21st, 2009, Prof. Wim Dehaen (KULeuven, Belgium) visited our lab and gave a lecture.
	June 12th, four group members, Bo Song, Yugui Jiang, Yapei Wang, Senlin Chen got promoted in their PhD defense.
	May 27th, Prof. James S. Nowick (University of California at Irvine, USA) visited Department of Chemistry and gave a lecture.
	In the end of March, 2009, some professors from US and Europe--T. Bronich (USA), H. Fuchs (Germany), J. Huskens (the Netherlands) visited our lab and gave a lecture to the department. Many our group members introduced their work to them and got lots of helpful suggestions.
	The Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) announced the list of Young Chemist Award winners at Jan. 20th, 2009. Our senior group member, Dr. Shuxun Cui is honored to be one of them.Dr. Cui got his PhD degree in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Xi Zhang.
2008
	From Dec. 7st to Dec. 11th, 2008, Prof. Xi Zhang went to Germany, to presented at the startup of the German-Chinese Transregio Program, "Multilevel Molecular Assemblies: Structure, Dynamics and Functions" held in University of Münster.
	Nov. 28th, 2008, the midterm panel view for the program of "chemistry of molecular assembly system – self-assembly of molecules and function of assembly system", the National Basic Research Program (973), was held in Wenjin International hotel.
	Nov.11th, 2008, Prof. E. W. Meijer (Bert) (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) visited our lab and gave a lecture about "The non-covalent synthesis of supramolecular systems" at Room 406 of Hetian building.
	Oct.30th, 2008, Prof. Alexander V. Kabanov (University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA) visited our lab and gave a lecture about “Block Ionomer Complexes for Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery”.
	Oct.27th, 2008, Prof. Joseph DeSimone (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,USA) visited our lab and gave a lecture about “Complex Particles and Patterned Surfaces: Opportunities in Life and Materials Science”.
	Oct.13th, 2008, ACS Langmuir Symposium was held at Department of Chemistry. Prof. David G. Whitten (Editor of Langmuir, University of New Mexico, USA) and Prof. Kirk S. Schanze (Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, University of Florida, USA) gave an introduc-tion about the two journals.