Welcome Ziyuan (黄子源) to join us as an undergraduate researcher. He will also work with Bowen on the mechanistic study of hydrogen-bonding catalysis!

Welcome Mingze (李明泽) to join us as an undergraduate researcher. He will work with Bowen on the mechanistic study of hydrogen-bonding catalysis!

Liu Group end-of-year celebration! Celebrating a year of fruitful achievements, our research team looks ahead to greater success in the future. Bravo!

Welcome Yekebing (吴也柯冰) to join us as an undergraduate researcher. He will work with Zhiyang on designing new mechanophores!

Welcome Shuo (陈硕) to join us. Shuo will be working with us on his thesis.

Yun was invited to give a talk at the Singapore Scientific Conference 2025 the day before and today in the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore.

Welcome Tong (磨瞳) to join us as an undergraduate researcher. She will work with Yiting on polymer mechanochemistry!

Yun delivered an invited talk in the 2025 National Meeting of CCS Polymer Division!

Welcome Bofan (萧博凡) to join us as an undergraduate researcher. He will work with Xingjian on poly(disulfide) synthesis!

Yun has received the recognition of Young Investigator Award from the Polymer Division of CCS and Chinese Polymer Platform (CPP)!

Yiting and Xingjian have racked up a departmental scholarship!

Shihao has been named to receive the National Scholarship, great job and big congrats!

We welcome first-year graduate students, Xu (张旭) and Zhiyang (刘志阳), to join the group! Xu is an undergraduate of Peking University and Zhiyang comes to us from Peking University, too.

Welcome Zhi (张智) to join us as an undergraduate researcher. He will work with Xingjian on poly(disulfide) synthesis!

Another graduate season…we are proud but also sad to see them go (or not?). Ruishi (shown) will stay for a little longer before leaving for the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Xiaofei will follow her step soon as well. Yunfan will join the Medical School of PKU for his graduate study. Zhiyang and Xu will enjoy their summer before returning as a graduate student in the department. All the others are too shy to have their photos posted, but we wish them the best!

Yun has been named by the department to receive NG Teng Fong / Sino Scholarship for Outstanding Youth from the University!

Tianyu was named to receive the Chancellor Fellowship of Peking University this year. Great job!

The No. 1 PhD from Liu Group! Tianyi successfully passed his thesis defense today. In the past four years with us, Tianyi have developed the first regioselective synthesis of poly(disulfide)s, discovered an intriguing catalytic mode, and then used this understanding to develop new catalysts with superior performance. What a serendipitous journey! In the next stop, he will join Midea (美的) to work on new exciting materials!

Tianyu's paper is also accepted in Angew Chem Int Ed! Wonderful work from our own team, congrats to Tianyu, Ruishi, Bowen, and Tianyi! We have discovered an old reaction from literature and turned it into our favor in making aryl-containing poly(disulfide)s.

Welcome Yichen (姜羿臣) to join us as an undergraduate researcher. He will work on many different projects, OMG!