Background: Microfluidic technology, also called lab-on-a-chip, is a technology featured by fluid control in micrometer scale space that can minimize the basic functions of biological and chemical laboratories to a chip of several square centimeters. In recent years, China has developed microfluidic technology from nothing and has formed research forces spread in main universities and scientific research institutes nationwide. Meanwhile, the practical application prospect of microfluidic technology is also gaining more and more attention from the industry circles.

From November 29 to December 4, 2015, the undergraduate students of Professor Guo Xugang’s research group of SUSTC’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering including Wang Yulun, Zhu Xucheng and Peng Changliang and the undergraduate students of Professor Tian Leilei’s research group including Wei Zixiang and Luan Tianqi were invited to the Materials Research Society 2015 Fall Meeting held in Boston, the United States.

From December 4 to 6, 2015, “2015 Inorganic Nano Energy Materials Seminar”, hosted by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and co-hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Shenzhen Society of Chemistry and Chemical Industry, was held in the 110 Lecture Hall of the Library.

From December 5 to 6, 2015, over 180 domestic and foreign scholars came to our university to attend “2015 Inorganic Nano Energy Materials Seminar” hosted by the Department of Materials Science & Engineering. Vice President Tang Tao met and had an informal discussion with representatives attending the seminar in the Administrative Building on the morning of December 6.

Recently, Yongye Liang’s research group developed a newmolecular engineering approach for highly sensitive polymer photodetectors. He and his colleagues describe the new approach in a study ("Toward highlysensitive polymer photodetectors by molecular engineering") published in the journal "Advanced Materials" (impact factor 17.493).