June 3rd, Dr. Stephen Goldup (a senior lecturer from Queen Mary University of London) was invited to visit our school and made an academic report. Dr. Stephen first visited the Key Lab for Advanced Materials, and then discussed with young scholars about the academic exchanges in the future.

    After the discussion, Dr. Stephen gave a lecture titled "Small Functionalized Rotaxanes". Associate Professor Qu Dahui hosted the lecture and Academician Tian He, Professor Wang Qiaochun, Associate Professor Ma Xiang, Guo Zhiqian, Zou Lei also attended the lecture.

    His lecture mainly focused on the application of constructing a mechanical interlocking molecular with activity template method, which efficiently built a series of specific molecular sensing functions, chiral controllable rotaxane molecules and polymers. Finally he forecast their applications in organic optoelectronic functional materials, such as chiral catalysis. After the lecture, Dr. Stephen discussed with participants and exchanged opinions.

    In Dr. Stephen group they carry out research aimed at producing synthetic molecular machines with a view to applying them to the synthesis of complex molecules and materials which are inaccessible by other means. More generally they carry out fundamental investigations of the properties of reactions and interactions (including electronic, photochemical and magnetic interactions) confined to the restricted dimensions of interlocked architectures. Such devices have implications for molecular photonics, photosynthetic, electronic, magnetic, multiferroic and other smart materials.