On December 8-9, Liu Baosheng who is the party secretary, chairman of the board and general manager of sailing Co.,Ltd., Zhen Zhijun who is the Standing Deputy General Manager of Fengfan Co.,Ltd., Zhang Yufeng who is the deputy general manager and chief engineer of Fengfan Co.,Ltd., and their four companions visited Energy Storage Division of DICP. They aimed to cooperate with each other in the novel battery area. Wang Hua, who is the deputy director of DICP, attended their mutual discussion conference.
Wang Hua welcomed Liu Baosheng and his companions to visit DICP, and introduced the history and current statis of DICP to guests. At the same time, Liu Baosheng introduced Fengfan Co., Ltd., and expressed the hope to cooperate closely with DICP in the filed of new battery technology. During the visit period, Professor Zhang Huamin accompanied the guests to visit the Energy Storage Division and Rongke Power Co., Ltd. The research stuffs of energy storage technology introduced the current statue of some energy torage batteries. Previous to this visit, both sides had a number of communications. As a result of this visitor, the DICP and Fengfan co. Ltd reached a consensus on the cooperation in novel battery area. Fengfan Co., Ltd. also invited Professor Zhang Huamin as their novel battery technology experts, which provides a reliable guarantee for the smooth implementation of technical cooperation of both sides.
Fengfan Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, is the strongest market share of automotive starter battery production enterprises, whose predecessor is one of 156 national key construction projects in the "first five" period. Fengfan Co., Ltd. has a post-doctoral workstations, national power lithium battery laboratory and the only one national technical center identified by NDRC and Ministry of Science and Technology as well as Chairman of the acid storage battery branch unit of Chinese chemical and physical power industry association and the lead-acid batteries branch of Chinese Battery Industry Association , owing strong capability of product engineering and industrialization.

Peter J. Stang, prof. of University of Utah, editor-in-chief of Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), visited DICP from Dec. 10th to 11th. This visit was financial supported by ‘Zhang Dayu Lectureship’, the special fund project of DICP.
On Dec. 10th, Prof. Stang attended an academic salon, which was organized by the postdoctoral fellowship of DICP. In this salon, Prof. Stang talked with the young scientists and post-doctors about how to choose research direction, how to innovate in scientific research, and how to submit a manuscript to JACS. Later in the afternoon, Prof. Stang visited Group 1810, the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis.
ZhangDayu lectureship (X VI) was held at Conference Hall of Biotechnology Building On the morning of Dec. 11th. Prof. Keli Han hosts this lecture. Prof. Tao Zhang, the director of DICP, awarded the certification of “ZhangDayu Lectureship” and certification of honorary professorto Prof. Stang.
After that, Prof. Stang delivered the speech named “Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination”. The use of just two types of building blocks, Prof. Stang said, linear and angular, in conjunction with symmetry considerations allows the rational design of a wide range of metallocyclic polygons and polyhedra via the coordination motif. ‘The powerful of self-assembly,’ said by Prof. Stang. He and his colleagues have used this approach to self-assemble a variety of 2D supramolecular polygons such as triangles, rectangles, squares, hexagons, etc. as well as a number of 3D supramolecular polyhedra: truncated tetrahedra, triginal prisms, cubooctahedra and dodecahedra. Prof. Stang gave us an optimistic perspective of the applications of these novel metallocyclic assemblies. About 150 researchers were presented at this lecture.
Background Information
Prof. Peter J. Stang is an internationally recognized scientist in chemistry. He is a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Association for Advancement of Science, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has received National Medal of Science, F. A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research, Priestly Medal, Linus Pauling Medal from ACS, FredBasolo Medal for Outstanding Research in Inorganic Chemistry. Now he is the Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the University of Utah. He is also the senior fellow of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute in the University of Southern California, the chief editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS).
Prof. Peter J. Stang mainly engaged in the research of supramolecular self-assembly. He has made the significant contribution to the coordination chemistry, organic metal and iodine chemistry. He is one of the best-known scientists in the field of the molecule construction and molecular assembly. So far he has more than 500 scientific publications and a number of patents which produced important influence on the field of chemistry.
‘ZhangDayu Lectureship’ is the top academic forum of DICP. No more than 4 top scientists who are active in the front of sciences will be invited to DICP to have a short time academic visit per year. These scientists are internationally recognized in their research field. They will be employed as an honorary professor of DICP after their visit.(Photo/ Text by Junxia Ding and Songqiu Yang)
 

On Nov. 21st, 2014, Prof. Yafeng Guan was invited to University of Adelaide for the launch of Centre of Excellence for NanoscaleBiophotonics (CNBP) (http://www.cnbp.org.au).
The CNBP is officially supported by Australian Research Council (ARC) and links the Australian key community from University of Adelaide, Macquarie University and RMIT University, in partnership with 11 other international institutions. The mission of the CNBP is to discover new approaches to the measurement of nano-scale dynamic phenomena in living systems.
Several leading scientists were elected to serve as members of the CNBP International Science Committee (ISC). The purpose of the CNBP ISC is to advise on the strategic directions of the scientific endeavours of the Centre and support delivery of other Centre outcomes. The chair of ISC is Prof. Dennis L. Matthews (University of California, Davis), and the members include Nobel Prize winner Prof. Robert Grubbs (California Institute of Technology), Prof. Paul French (Imperial College London), Prof. Francesco Pavone (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy) and so on. Prof. Yafeng Guan in DICP had the honor to be invited as a member of CNBP ISC. In symposium, Prof. Guanmade the deep discussion with other committee members on the recent development of highly sensitive fluorescent detection technique.

Prof. Rainer Lehmann, Prof. Oliver Kohlbacher of University of Tübingen (Germany) and their PhD students visited DICP from Nov 23th to Dec 4th. Prof. Lehmann and Prof. Kohlbacher presented lectures with the titles of “Metabolomics from research to diagnostics - Capabilities, perspectives, pitfalls” and “Highly-sensitive feature detection for nontargeted metabolomics and integration into complex systems biology studies” Staffs and students from DICP and Dalian Medical University attended lectures. Active discussion was carried out between students.
During the 1-2 weeks of their visit, the German scientists discussed scientific results and developed future cooperative research projects with Prof. Guowang Xu and his colleagues in the group 1808, DICP. Though this visit and face-to-face discussion, the cooperation will be further strengthened and extended. (by Xinjie Zhao, Yaorui Ye)
 

DICP Research Group102 led by Prof. Haiyang Li became the first to use stand-alone ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) via acid-enhanced vaporization technique to detect in organic explosives. A detection limit of 100 pg and detection period less than 5 seconds was achieved. The group’s result was published in Scientific Reports (http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/141016/srep06631/full/srep06631.html).

   
In China, inorganic explosives are important because they are readily available, have a relatively low cost, and components to make the explosives are not legally restricted to purchasers. Every year, the illegal construction and use of inorganic explosives leads to significant property loss and death. However, up to now, there have been no instruments and methods for field-detection of these inorganic explosives. While ion mobility spectrometry has become the main method for organic explosives detection, the detection of inorganic explosives has remained a challenge due to their low volatilities. Prof. Li et al proposed an innovative strategy for detecting trace inorganic explosives by thermal desorption IMS based on in situ acidification of the sampling swabs with a sample-to-sample analysis time of less than 5s. The detection response for common oxidizers in inorganic explosives, such as KNO3, KClO3 and KClO4, were enhanced by at least 3000 times over previous methods, with detection limits as low as 100 pg. Typical inorganic explosives, such as black powders, firecrackers, and matches, could be detected at high sensitivity as well.
It is easy to imagine that this new type of IMS and analytical method for the detection of trace organic and inorganic explosives can be useful in transportation security, such as inspection stations at airports and railway stations.

On November 26th, Chinese Academy of Sciences organized several specialists to investigate our special fund project for instruments, i.e., Cell behavior characterization platform. The work panel members are from NSSC, IOCAS, ICT, and XIEG. Our director assistant, Prof. Xu Guowang, the relevant officials and the platform technicians attended the meeting.

The project leader, Prof. Zhang Qing gave a work report, and answered several questions from the work panel. Then, the work panel inspected the running conditions of each instruments, and checked every equipment archives. Under a series of reviews, the work panel agreed our project to pass the final examination and they also made a good remark to this inspection.
The cell behavior characterization platform Program was supported by the special funding from Ministry of Finance of PRC, and purchased 3 sets of instruments, i.e., Andor Live Cell Imaging System, Beckman Flow Cyctometer and Small Animal MRI, which can strongly support the key cultivation direction of DICP “135 plan”, i.e., Biological analysis and biological conversion technology.