Yun was elected to serve in the Early Career Advisory Board of JACS Au, an open-access sister journal of JACS.
Group spring outing at the National Botanic Garden. The students look a lot happier when the advisor is not around lecturing…
Welcome Yunfan (郑云帆) to join us as an undergraduate researcher on another challenging mechanochemistry project with Weixiu!
Welcome Jiaheng (刘家恒) to join us as an undergraduate researcher on a challenging mechanochemistry project with Yiting!
Shihao's paper is accepted in JACS! Congrats to Shihao, Yiting, and Tianyi. Working with my colleague Rong Zhu here at PKU and my staunch collaborator Jan Meisner at HHU, we turned a bicyclohexene into a multimodal mechanophore.
Yun is teaching Orgo B (有机化学B) in the spring semester. Yun will be introducing the beautiful world of organic chemistry to the freshman in the med school!
Yun participates in organizing the 4th Soft Matters Frontiers Forum (软物质前沿论坛) at Peking University.
Liu Group end-of-year celebration! It has been a productive year and everyone deserves a grand applause.
Yun has won the Peking University Junior Faculty Teaching Award (first prize)! Yun presented a 20-min short course on why some polymers are stronger than the others.
The first paper from our group is accepted in JACS! Congrats to Tianyi, Jieyu, Miaomiao, Xingjian. They worked their magic in making poly(disulfide)s in a highly controlled and regioselective manner. We thank Boming and Peiyuan at SUSTech for their help with DFT calculations.
Yun participated in organizing this year's “Beijing-Fudan-Zhejiang-Suzhou” Joint Symposium on Polymer Science (北大-复旦-浙大-苏大四校高分子交流会). We made a whole lot of new friends so we call it a success! Thanks to all the colleagues and volunteers for their unrelenting help and support!
Shihao has racked up a departmental scholarship!
Yun is teaching Chemistry Today (今日化学) in the fall semester. Yun will be introducing polymer science to the freshman in the CCME!
We welcome first-year graduate students, Yechen (刘业辰) and Guangke (王光珂), to join the crew! They both come to us from Shandong University.
Welcome Bowen (王博文) and Xu (张旭)! They join us as undergraduate researchers. Bowen will be working with Tianyu on making some sticky polymers, and Xu will be working with Weixiu to cook up some shinny molecules.
A wave is coming. Congrats to Tianyu, Weixiu, and Shihao for passing their qualification exam! Many bottles to open in the summer.
Welcome Yechen! Yechen (刘业辰) come to us as a senior undergraduate from Shangdong University and will be doing his thesis with us in the spring.
Group outing at …… different places!! Team one went out early to the Fragrant Hills (香山), team two got stuck in the traffic and decided to stay in Beiwu Park (北坞). After a long day, we treated ourselves with some good food for sure!
Group outing at Beijing Zoo. We found a nice corner to take group photos and we will use the best one for a group culture competition in celebrating the 90th anniversary of CCS.
Tianyi received a departmental scholarship!