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From October 15 to 17, 2026, the First Collegiate Life Sciences Competition Finals were held at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. Xiran Sun, an undergraduate member of our group, attended the competition with teammates Heyi Wang and Dongran Xu, accompanied by Yibin Sun.

Fei Li, a PhD student in the group, attended Mach-5 Molecular Machinery: Making, Measuring, Modelling in Liblice, Czech Republic, on September 6–9, 2026. The conference brought together researchers working on artificial molecular machines and their functional systems, with discussions spanning synthesis, measurement, and theoretical modelling.

On July 22, 2026, PhD students Fei Li and Haoyuan Qu completed their doctoral dissertation pre-defenses. Professors Lixin Wu, Wen Li, Youliang Zhu, Haichao Liu, and Jinsong Yuan served on the review committee.

Congratulations to Tianyi Yang on her doctoral dissertation, “Kinetics and Dynamic Regulation of Cucurbit[8]uril-Based Multicomponent Assembly Systems,” being recognized as a 2026 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation at Jilin University! (Guanglu Wu, writing and review)

On May 26, 2026, Dr. Mingshen Lin visited our university and delivered an engaging seminar on isothermal titration calorimetry to faculty and students. In his talk, Dr. Lin first gave a systematic introduction to the definition and importance of molecular interactions, noting that they are central to many areas of chemistry, biology, medicine, and related fields.

On May 22, 2026, master’s students Zhengkang Wang and Meng Yang successfully defended their master’s theses, completing an important milestone in their graduate training. Professors Lixin Wu, Wen Li, and Jinsong Yuan served on the examination committee for the formal defense.

On May 20, 2026, undergraduate students Borui Yao, Siyuan Xu, and Baiting Lu successfully defended their undergraduate theses, marking the completion of an important academic milestone in their undergraduate training.

From April 11 to 14, 2026, the 35th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Chemical Society was held at Chongqing Science Hall. Prof. Guanglu Wu attended the meeting with 11 students from the group.

On the evening of March 17, 2026, the Supramolecular Materials Interdisciplinary Innovation Team held its first online joint group meeting. The meeting featured a talk by Prof. Guanglu Wu titled “Understanding and Measuring Binding Constants,” focusing on the physical meaning, experimental measurement, and data analysis of binding constants in supramolecular systems.

On March 13, 2026, Hao Li from Zhejiang University visited our university and delivered an engaging academic lecture to faculty and students. Li received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Wuhan University before pursuing doctoral studies at Northwestern University under the supervision of Sir J.