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On September 1, 2025, Prof. Kang Cai of Nankai University was invited to our university to serve as a thesis defense committee member. During his visit, he kindly delivered an insightful academic lecture for our group.

On September 1, 2025, our doctoral student Jia Liu successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and was officially awarded the doctoral degree, becoming the first Ph.D. graduate of Guanglu Lab. Since joining the group, Jia has focused on cucurbituril-based noncovalent assembly systems, making steady progress in areas such as chiral folding assemblies and binary assemblies driven by π–π stacking.

On July 23, 2025, the group warmly welcomed a familiar face—former member Shen Yuancheng, who returned to his alma mater to attend the group meeting and deliver an engaging presentation on his recent research progress in the field of heteroatom-modified polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

From June 1 to 5, 2025, Guanglu attended the 2025 Joint International Conference on Calixarenes and Cucurbiturils (JCCC2025), held in Macao. As a major biennial event in the field of calixarenes and cucurbituril chemistry, the conference brought together over 300 leading scientists from 24 countries and regions, offering a vibrant platform for academic exchange in supramolecular chemistry.

From May 24 to 31, 2025, the 19th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry 2025 (ISMSC2025) was successfully held in Kyoto, Japan. As a premier global event in the field, the conference brought together over 1,000 leading experts and emerging scholars from around the world to discuss the latest advances in macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry.

On May 23, 2025, our group member Zixiang Wang successfully defended his master’s thesis. During the defense, Zixiang demonstrated great scientific literacy and presentation skills, earning unanimous praise from the examination committee.

On May 14, 2025, Professor Wei Zhang from University of Colorado Boulder, was invited to visit us and delivered an engaging academic lecture titled ‘Unlocking Innovative Crystalline Polymer Architectures with Dynamic Covalent Chemistry.

From May 11 to 13, 2025, Prof. Rinaldo Poli, member of the Academia Europaea and faculty at the INP Toulouse, France, visited the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials.

“The 21st century is the century of biology.” In recent years, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has frequently been awarded to biologically-oriented research, reinforcing this statement and highlighting the increasing convergence between chemistry and life sciences.

On March 28, 2025, Dr Yu Xi from Tianjin University was invited to visit our institute and delivered a compelling academic lecture titled “Intelligent Agents for Polymer Composite Research Based on Heterogeneous Databases and Large Language Models.