On November 9, the AMR Conference co-sponsored by the journal Accounts of Materials Research (AMR) and ACS Publications came to a successful conclusion.
With the theme of “Materials for a Better Future”, this conference focused on the frontier hot topics and future directions of nano and porous materials research. The conference invited well-known domestic and foreign scholars including Omar Yaghi and Yang Peidong, members of the US National Academy of Sciences, and Zhao Dongyuan and Jiang Lei, members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to share their latest research progress and experiences in related fields.
Yin Jie, Executive Vice President and Provost of ShanghaiTech, and Sarah Tegen, Senior Vice President of ACS Publications, attended the opening ceremony of the conference and delivered speeches. Liu Zhi, Vice Provost of ShanghaiTech, Director of CTS, and Vice Dean of SPST, hosted the opening ceremony and also introduced the AMR. Huang Jiaxing, Editor-in-Chief of AMR and Chair Professor of West Lake University, hosted the keynote speeches.
In 2020, ShanghaiTech University and ACS Publications announced their first publishing collaboration to create AMR, a new journal in China for the worldwide research community. It is sponsored by ShanghaiTech, and jointly published by ShanghaiTech and ACS. Three years later, the journal’s impact factor has reached 14.6. Yin Jie offered congratulations on the remarkable achievements and hoped the attending experts and authors continue to support the development of the journal, thus further expanding the journal’s influence. Sarah Tegen said, “This conference was held not only to celebrate the AMR’s third anniversary but also to demonstrate the important role of international cooperation and dialogue in promoting global research and scientific progress.”
The conference concentrated on nanomaterials, which involves one-dimensional inorganic nanomaterials and their optoelectronic and catalytic applications, super hydrophilicity and super fluidity–quantum limited superfluid, synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes with controllable structure, precise control of chemical reactions on metal surfaces, mesoporous inorganic materials with chiral anisotropy and their biological functions, curvature nanocarbon materials, environmental scanning electron microscopy revealing the basic mechanism of gas-solid interface interactions, and so on.
In terms of porous materials, the scholars discussed topics such as the ChatGPT porous framework materials for coping with climate change, single micelle-directed functional mesoporous material molecular aggregates, chiral aggregation and crystallization, assembly, identification and separation of supramolecular coordination, separation and catalytic conversion applications of crystalline porous polymerization, construction of multifunctional olefin MOF single crystals, design and application of MOF thin films, and low-dimensional tin halide perovskites.
Professors from Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xiamen University, Suzhou University, Jinan University, Nanjing Tech University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Jiangnan University, University of Science and Technology of China and ShanghaiTech University gave informative reports.
This conference attracted more than 300 participants who enjoyed in-depth discussions in a vibrant academic atmosphere.
Yin Jie, Executive Vice President and Provost of ShanghaiTech
Sarah Tegen, Senior Vice President of ACS Publications
Liu Zhi, Vice Provost of ShanghaiTech, Director of CTS, and Vice Dean of SPST
AMR Editor-in-Chief Huang Jiaxing
Group photo of participants