一、时间

2026年7月16日 

二、地点

8:30—12:00 逸夫科学馆

14:00—17:00 逸夫人文馆

三、日程

备注：报告每人25分钟，共11位报告人，包括9位中国学者、2位外国学者。

报告一：

  报告摘要

The ability to readily access small-molecule building blocks at will has important consequences for the discovery and development of novel medicines and materials. It is particularly beneficial when the chemical methods are convenient while at the same time economically and environmentally tenable and sustainable. A focus of our research program at ETH-Zurich is the identification, study, and development of novel reactions and methods for preparation of functionalized structures. We are especially interested in catalytic processes that are easily executed and utilize readily available starting materials. We will discuss several new reaction processes that provide ready access to a host of fundamentally versatile building blocks for synthesis. The presentation focuses on the unique reactivity of Ir- and Ru- complexes with novel ligands as well as recent progress with earth-abundant metal catalysts combined with photochemistry.

  报告人简介

Professor Erick M. Carreira obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1990 from Harvard University. Since 1998, he has been appointed Professor of Chemistry of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at ETH-Zürich, where his is currently Head of the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences.Professor Carreira has authored over 390 publications and 36 patents, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of J. Am. Chem. Soc.Professor Carreira is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, such as The American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry; The American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry; and Nobel Laureate Signature Award.

报告二：

  报告摘要

Chalcogen-containing polymers have attracted increasing attention, owing to their fascinating properties such as high refractive indices, metal coordination ability, self-healing capability, optoelectronic property, and so on. Currently, the lack of economic monomers and efficient synthetic approaches are the main challenges for the development of chalcogen-containing polymers. Elemental sulfur with large surplus from worldwide petroluem industry, and elemental selenium as byproduct from metal refinery industry, are hence idea sources for the preparation of chalcogen-containing polymers, despite of the challenges of poor solubility of sulfur/selenium in organic solvents and their toxicity to transition metal catalysts. In our work, a series of elemental sulfur-based multicomponent polymerizations (MCPs) will be introduced to directly convert elemental sulfur to sulfur-containing polymers such as polythioamides, polythioureas, polythiocarbonates, and polythiophenes with well-defined structures, good solubility, high yields, and high molecular weights ility, making them promising candidates for applications including precious metal enrichment and recovery, high-refractive-index materials, and solid-state electrolytes. These MCPs are economic, efficient, and convenient tools for the direct conversion from elemental chalcogen to profitable chalcogen-containing functional polymers, which could accelerate the development of chalcogen-containing polymers with diversified structures and functionalities, demonstrating their great potential in sustainable polymer materials.

  报告人简介

Rongrong Hu is a Professor of Stable Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices at South China University of Technology. She obtained her B. S. degree at Peking University and her Ph.D degree at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She started her independent career at South China University of Technology in 2014, and was promoted to full professor in 2016. She became Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2021, and served as the associate editor of Polymer Chemistry during 2019-2025. Her research interests are establishing new polymerization reactions, exploring new polymer structures, and developing new polymer materials. Her research group has developed more than 40 types of multicomponent polymerizations, including a series of elemental sulfur-based multicomponent polymerizations, which could directly convert sulfur to a large number of sulfur-containing functional polymer materials efficiently. She has published more than 160 SCI papers, including JACS, Chem, Chem. Sci., Macromolecules, which been cited for more than 10000 times. She has been the recipient of Hanwha-Total IUPAC Young Scientist Award and Young Chemist Award of Chinese Chemistry Society, and is funded as Distinguished Young Scholar from National Science Fund of China.

报告三：

  报告摘要

Exploring the intricate relationship between structure and properties in organic functional materials stands as one of the most captivating endeavors for material scientists. The current approach to molecular design of functional materials primarily adheres to a bottom-up research paradigm within molecular science. This paradigm underscores the pivotal role of molecular structure in dictating material properties. Within the framework of this molecular structure-property research paradigm, scientists have successfully designed various molecular materials with novel structures, often leveraging an intuition-driven, experience-based approach. Undoubtedly, the molecular structure-dominated research paradigm has been pivotal in advancing modern chemistry and materials science. However, as the scope of materials expands, this approach encounters emerging limitations. Increasingly, it's becoming evident that while molecular structure plays a crucial role, the aggregation modes of materials significantly impact their macroscopic performance. In this presentation, we aim to encapsulate our research in this field, shedding light on the profound influence of aggregation on materials properties. By offering valuable insights, we seek to facilitate the development of strategies aimed at optimizing material performance.

  报告人简介

Professor Zheng Zhao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen). Prof. Zhao received his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry from Shanghai institute of organic chemistry, Chinese academy of science.  After graduation, he conducted postdoctoral research in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Prof. Ben Zhong Tang. He has been recognized as a Presidential Young Scholar at CUHK-Shenzhen, and an Emerging Investigator in Materials Chemistry Frontiers, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Science China Chemistry and Chemical Communications. Since 2021, he has consistently been ranked among theWorld’s Top 2% Scientists. For his contributions to biomedical luminescent materials, he was awarded the Daoben Zhu Organic Solid Youth Awardby the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) . Additionally, he serves as theDeputy Directorof the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Functional Aggregate Materials. His research focuses on aggregate luminescent materials, organic photosensitizers, and NIR luminescent materials. He has publishedover 130 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Matter, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Advanced Materials, withover 16,000 citations and an H-index of 66. Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including National Science Review, Aggregate, and Smart Molecules.

报告四： 

  报告摘要

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have recently emerged as promising materials for (photo)electrochemical energy conversion. However, COFs prepared by conventional solvothermal synthesis typically form poorly defined, micron-sized aggregates of crystallites. Combined with the intrinsically limited long-range charge transport in COFs, this morphology severely limits the efficient utilization of photogenerated charge carriers in optoelectronic devices and hinders charge transfer from conductive substrates to catalytic active sites in electrocatalysis, representing a major obstacle to their practical applications. To overcome this challenge, we have developed a series of bottom-up synthetic strategies to precisely regulate COF nucleation and growth, enabling the formation of colloidally stable COF nanoparticles while preserving their high crystallinity. Compared with their bulk counterparts, thin-film devices and electrocatalysts fabricated from these colloidal COFs exhibit substantially enhanced photoelectrochemical and electrocatalytic performance. In the final part of the talk, I will also discuss our recent advances in cyclopalladated COFs for near-infrared-driven photocatalysis.

  报告人简介

Liang Yao is a Professor at South China University of Technology, where he leads a research group on functional organic materials for energy conversion. Following his Ph.D. at Jilin University, he pursued research at EPFL in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Project Leader, and Senior Scientist. His research focuses on the bottom-up synthesis of functional organic materials, particularly colloidal covalent organic frameworks and organic semiconductors, for applications in solar energy conversion, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, and artificial photosynthesis.

报告五： 

   报告摘要

Due to the topological divergence between [3]radialene and benzene, hexaphenyl[3]radialene (HPR) exhibits a dramatic bathochromic-shift in emission (619 nm) with a Stokes shift >150 nm, which is distinct from its structural analogue hexaphenylbenzene (HPB). Our mechanism analyses revealed the localized bond rearrangement and moderate short-range charge transfer, which lead to its long-wavelength emission and enhanced aggregation-induced emission (AIE) character. Ring-locked derivatives, tridibenzocycloheptadiene[3]radialene (THR) and tridimethylanthrone[3]radialene (TAR), were synthesized, exhibiting tunable emission wavelength (505–685 nm) and high crystalline-state quantum yields (up to 49.2%). Our results establish the [3]radialene backbone as a robust hydrocarbon scaffold for high-performance, long-wavelength emitters by elucidating topology-dependent excited-state dynamics.

   报告人简介

Prof. Zijie Qiu is the tenure-track Assistant Professor

and Presidential Young Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

(CUHK-Shenzhen). Prof. Qiu received his B.S. from Fudan University and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). After graduation, he conducted postdoctoral research as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and was promoted as the Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Germany. Prof. Qiu has published over 120 papers in prestigious journals such as Nat. Photon., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., Prog. Polym. Sci., Macromolecules , which have been cited more than 6,700 times. 

报告六：

   报告摘要

Unsaturated bonds are important functional groups in organicchemistry. Many useful compounds can be synthesized by the sequentialconversionof unsaturated bonds. However, due to the diversity of reaction sites andcomplex reaction modes of unsaturated bonds, it is still a challenge to realizetheir selective conversions and high-value applications. In recent years, wehave developed a series of unique strategies for unsaturated bond conversionsinvolving the directing effect of heteroatoms. By introducing different oxygen-,nitrogen-and halogen-atoms into the unsaturated bonds, the orderly coordinationbetween the substrates and transition metals was promoted and precise controlof reaction selectivity was realized. Moreover, some novel molecules withexcellent biological reactivities and fluorescence performance have beenconstructed and applied.

   报告人简介

Wanqing Wu received her B. S. degree from Hunan University and her Ph.D. degree from Peking University. She then conducted her postdoctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Huanfeng Jiang at South China University of Technology, where she was promoted to full professor in 2014. Her research focuses on the efficient conversion and value-added utilization of unsaturated hydrocarbons. She has published more than 120 SCI papers, including Acc. Chem. Res., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nat. Commun., and Sci. Adv., with total citations over 10000. She is a co-recipient of the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education (third contributor). Her professional honors include selection for the National Youth Talent Program, recognition as a ChemComm Emerging Investigator, and receipt of the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award.

报告七：

  报告摘要

Carboxylic acids are a class of fundamental chemicals characterized by diverse structures, stable chemical properties (enabling easy storage), and low cost. Utilizing simple carboxylic acids to achieve diverse and high-value-added synthesis is of significant importance. Toward this goal, our group has accomplished: 1) Exhaustive deoxygenative coupling of carboxylic acids to construct C–C, C–N, and C–H bonds at the carboxyl center; 2) meta C-H activation of aromatic carboxylic acids; 3) Divergent coupling of vinyl carboxylic acids to construct alfa-amino acids and beta-amino acids.  

 报告人简介

Liangbin Huang graduated from Beijing University of Chemical Technology with a bachelor's degree in June 2008, and in the same year, he was admitted to South China University of Technology for a combined master's and doctoral program, obtaining his Ph.D. degree in July 2013. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at TU Kaiserslautern in Germany with Prof. Lukas J. Goossen, the University of Rochester in the United States, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Prof. Daniel J. Weix. In November 2018, he joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at South China University of Technology as a full professor. He received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Guangdong Province in 2014, was awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany in 2014, was selected for the Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction Youth Program in 2018, received the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education (second contributor) in 2019, and was selected for the Pearl River Talent Program Youth Top-notch in 2019. 

报告八：

  报告摘要

Although design concepts that program aggregate-state structure to achieve numerous, coupled functions are still elusive, advanced material functions originate from collective molecular organization rather than the intrinsic features of isolated molecules. This problem is particularly important in organic crystals because long-lived phosphorescence and mechanical flexibility are typically incompatible. In cryogenic conditions, the rigidification required to suppress non-radiative decay for phosphorescence usually excludes the molecular slippage required for elasticity. Here, we describe an alkynyl-engineering technique that directs C≡C···π-hole interactions that organize anisotropic noncovalent networks and control crystal packing, transforming the C≡C linker from a passive conjugated bridge into an active supramolecular interaction site. Three positional isomers, p-, m-, and o-TPA-TRZ, crystallize into six different polymorphs whose mechanical behavior and emission color directly correlate with donor-acceptor substitution geometry: all three isomers can form green-emissive flexible crystals, whereas the sterically hindered ortho isomer is confined to this single packing mode, whereas the less constrained para and meta isomers undergo greater torsional reorganization and generate additional blue- or yellow-emissive block crystals. Aggregation always increases solid-state emission and limits intramolecular mobility. Surprisingly, the C≡C···π-hole networks continue to function at 77 K, allowing the elastic crystals to maintain their mechanical compliance while displaying persistent phosphorescence with a few seconds of afterglow. This behavior demonstrates that alkynyl engineering enables molecular crystals with both flexibility and long-lived phosphorescence, offering a general strategy to link mechanical and photonic functions through controlled molecular packing and motion.

  报告人简介

Dr. Parvej Alam is an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS), Tsinghua University. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Deen Dayal Upadhyay University, India, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) under the supervision of Prof. Ben Zhong Tang, focusing on aggregation-induced emission (AIE), room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP), and organic long-persistent luminescence (OLPL) materials.

Dr. Alam has published more than 74 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals, including Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition. His publications have received over 4,500 citations with an H-index of 35. He is the recipient of the NSFC Overseas Excellent Young Scientist Fund (2022–2025) and holds six granted patents (two US and four Chinese). His current research focuses on luminescent organic materials for bioimaging, phototheranostics, optoelectronics, and advanced photonic applications. Dr. Alam also serves as an active reviewer for leading journals, including Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemical Science, Materials Chemistry Frontiers, Carbon, Aggregate, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, and Chemical Engineering Journal.

报告九： 

   报告摘要

The widespread applications of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) are largely dependent on functional end groups. The use of initiators carrying the target functional group represents a simple and efficient route to end-functionalized PEG. There have been challenges lying in the poor tolerance of (polar or reactive) functional groups towards the anionic ring-opening polymerization conditions. In recent years, we have uncovered the unique chemoselectivity of two-component organocatalysts and developed a series of simple, efficient, and precise synthetic strategies for end-group (also pendant-group) functionalized PEG. Notably, in reaction systems containing two types of protonic groups, the epoxide reacts exclusively with the carboxyl or hydroxyl groups of the initiator and the growing chain end, while remaining inert towards nitrogen-containing protonic groups such as carbamates and amides. To explain this unique site selectivity, we have proposed and validated an “acidity reversal” mechanism that defies the classic pKa rule (Figure 1). On the other hand, poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) (PEtOx) is regarded as one of the most promising PEG alternatives. Compared to PEG, the end-group chemistry for PEtOx is much less developed, with a notable lack of efficient and general methods using functional initiators. Recently, we have established a new catalytic method and its underlying mechanism based on ion exchange, enabling weak-acid-initiated cationic ring-opening polymerization. This opens up a one-step, controllable, and diversified synthetic route to end-functionalized PEtOx by use of diversified functional initiators.

   报告人简介

Junpeng Zhao received his B.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) from University of Science and Technology of China under the supervision of Prof. Guangzhao Zhang. From 2007 to 2009, he undertook a CSC-supported joint Ph.D. appointment in National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece, under the supervision of Prof. Stergios Pispas. He was then a postdoctoral researcher at Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany, with Prof. Helmut Schlaad and Prof. Markus Antonietti (2011-2012), and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, with Prof. Nikos Hadjichristidis (2012-2014). In the beginning of 2015, he joined South China University of Technology (School of Materials Science and Engineering) and began his professorship. His research mainly focuses on synthesis and functionalization of polymers by ionic and organocatalytic/metal-free methods, and also includes synthesis of polymers from (bio)renewable resources, structure-property relationship of polymers especially in terms of interactions with bio-entities. He is the coauthor of 108 peer-reviewed papers on JACS, Macromolecules, ACS Macro Letters, etc., 16 issued Chinese patents and 1 US patent. He is now an editorial board member of ACS Macro Letters (ACS) and Polymer Chemsitry (RSC).

报告十：

报告摘要

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are intelligent shape-changing polymers that undergo large, reversible deformation under small stimuli through the order–disorder transition of mesogenic units. Mesogen alignment within polymer networks is therefore essential for programmable actuation. However, conventional fabrication methods often couple material synthesis with alignment programming, limiting the design of complex actuation behaviors and restricting many LCE actuators to thin-film structures with simple deformation modes. To address this challenge, our recent work focuses on decoupling LCE network formation from mesogen alignment. We developed three strategies: lyotropic phase-separation-induced alignment, network topological isomerism, and synergistic thermoelectric responsiveness. These mechanisms enable full-dimensional spatial deformation, sequential actuation control, and spatiotemporal multimode switching, offering new design principles for advanced soft robotic materials.

  报告人简介

Binjie Jin is a tenure-track Associate Professor at South China University of Technology. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Zhejiang University (ZJU). After completing his doctorate, he conducted postdoctoral research at ZJU, focusing on programmable shape-changing polymers. Prof. Jin has published more than 38 papers in prestigious journals, includingNature Communications(2),Science Advances(2),Advanced Materials(6), andAngewandte Chemie International Edition. He currently serves as a member of the Early Career Board ofACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

报告十一：

报告摘要

This report will focus on our recently established efficient and powerful polymerization based on triple-bond building blocks. This includes spontaneous thiol-yne, spontaneous amine-yne, and organobase-catalyzed hydroxyl-yne click polymerization, as well as the cyanide-azide click polymerization. Additionally, the properties of the resultant polymers and their applications in the fields of biology and optoelectronics will be discussed.

  报告人简介

Anjun Qin received his BS and PhD degrees from Shanxi University and Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He did his post-doctoral research at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Zhejiang University in 2005−2008. He joined Zhejiang University as an associate professor in 2008 and moved to SCUT with promotion to full professor in 2013. His current research interests include the development of new polymerizations based on triple-bond building blocks, and constructions of organic/polymeric functional materials for high-tech applications.