Congratulations to students Renhui Qiu and Yuan Liu on successfully defending their thesis and graduating! Your hard work and talent have been perfectly showcased, and we hope you will continue to achieve even greater success in your future academic endeavors.

The Chen group members attended "The 18th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular chemistry (ISMSC 2024)" held in Hangzhou during 05/06-10/2024. Professor Hongliang Chen served as the secretary of the conference and participated in presiding over the conference.

Ping Zhou was received the Outstanding Report Award in the National Doctoral Academic Forum of Intelligent Chemistry and Green Synthesis in 2023.

Congratulations to Dr. Wang for awarding the Annual Awards 2023 Academic Star of SIMS.

Renhui Qiu has received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Fundamental Research Program for Undergraduate Students.

Zhou Ping has obtained the qualification of studying abroad sponsored by the Chinese Government Scholarship.

The article "Robust Single-Supermolecule Switches Operating in Response to Two Different Noncovalent Interactions" was accepted by Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Kai Qu has been awarded funding from the 73^rd batch of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation for General Projects.

Ping Zhou was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 33^th CCS Congress on 20 June 2023.

Dr. Kai Qu was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 10^th National Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry on 14 May 2023.

The book "Interface Engineering in Organic Field-Effect Transistors" by Xuefeng Guo and Hongliang Chen was accepted by Wiley-VCH.

The article "Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion in a Porphyrinic Molecular Container" by Hongliang Chen et al. was accepted by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Leng Wang was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 2022 12^nd National Conference in Organic Chemistry for her project "The Construction of Macrocyclic Circuits".

A recent Review Article "The Story of the Little Blue Box: A Tribute to Siegfried Hünig" was accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

A collaboration work "Vibration-Assisted Charge Transport through Positively Charged Dimer Junctions" between PKU/NKU/ZJU was accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Welcom three postdoctoral research fellow: Leng Wang, Fangjun Liu, Kai Qu!

Welcom three graduate students: Ping Zhou, Ting Pan, Yaxuan Zhang!

The article "A Roadmap for Mechanically Interlocked Molecular Junctions at Nanoscale" by Chaoqing Yang was accepted by ACS Applied Nano Materials.

After 137 days, our clean room at the first floor of No.9 building was ready for use.

The article "Reactions in Single-Molecule Junctions" by Hongliang Chen et al. was accepted by Nature Reviews Materials.

Ruiqi Cao joined us as a STM engineer! He will take care of the UHV-STM and AFM in the following three year.

Our brand-new laboratory at the west wing of No.9 building was ready for use.

Yanjun Fu joined us as a stackoverflow engineer and lab manager. He developed this website and will work on java, python, matlab, labview programs.

Ping Zhou joined the group as an exchange student. She was also the first student joining the group. A warm welcome!

Hongliang Chen's first day at Zhejiang University.