Our research paper on "A Donor–Acceptor Cage for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: toward a New Kind of TADF Exciplex Emitters" has been published in ACS Matter Lett, which is an invited contribution from the editorial office for an Outreach Special Issue! Congratulations to Lihua for their nice work! This is a fruitful collaborative work with Dr. Fabrice Mathevet @Sorbonne Université and Prof. Chihaya Adachi @Kyushu University.

Dr. Chenfei Li joins our research group as Postdoctoral Research Fellow! Chenfei obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of St Andrews, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman, and conducted a postdoc research with Dr. Felipe García and Prof. Han Sen Soo @ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Welcome Chenfei!

Our research paper on "A Pair of Interconverting Cages Formed from Achiral Precursors Spontaneously Resolve into Homochiral Conformers" has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.! Congratulations to Yong, Xiaoning and Enguang for their nice work!

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Our joint paper on "Circularly Polarized Laser Emission from Homochiral Superstructures Self-Assembled by Achiral Molecules with Conformal Flexibility" with Prof. Qing-Zheng Yang @BNU and Prof. Qing Liao @SNU has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.! Congratulations to Zheng-Fei and Pan and thanks to the Zhou group and the Liao group for this fruitful collaboration!

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Our Postdoc Dr. Zhenyu Yang left the lab and will join Yancheng Teachers University as a faculty member. Congratulations to Zhenyu for your excellent achievements! We had excellent time with you during your stay in the lab, and we indeed appreciate your contributions to the Zhang Research Group. We all wish you a bright future and colorful life for your new endeavors!

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Miss. XIaorong He and Miss. Chi Zhang join our research group as Ph.D. Student and UROP, respectively! Welcome Xiaorong and Chi!

Zhenyu, Yong, Lihua and Weihao attended The 20th Supramolecular Chemistry Symposium at Shijiazhuang, Hebei. Zhenyu, Yong, Lihua and Weihao gave poster presentations and Yong received the best poster award. Congratulations to Yong!

Jiajia's baby girl Muxi Zhang is born. Congrats Jiajia! He is the second parent in the group!

Our Master student Mr. Jiaolong Chen and Postdoc Mr. Pan Li graduated and left the lab. Congratulations to Jiaolong and Pan for your excellent achievements! We wish you a bright future and colorful life for your new endeavors! We are also very grateful for your contributions to the Zhang Research Group.

Our joint paper on "Visible light-controlled living cationic polymerization of methoxystyrene" with Prof. Yong Feng Zhou has been published in Nat. Commun.! Congratulations to Lei and thanks to the Zhou group members for this nice collaboration!

Our research paper on "Heterochiral Diastereomer-Discriminative Diphanes that Form Hierarchical Superstructures with Nonlinear Optical Properties" has been published in JACS Au.! Congratulations to Jiaolong and other group members for their nice work!

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During the lockdown in Shanghai, Shaodong with six undergraduates and Ph.D students played "Hey Jude" by The Beatles, to wish we can do it better !

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During this special period, Mengyang, a first-year graduate in the Zhang's group, took the initiative to volunteer in epidemic prevention on campus. We hope that the epidemic situation @Shanghai and SJTU will end soon.

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Our research paper on "Supramolecular Proton Conductors Self-Assembled by Organic Cages " has been published in JACS Au.! Congratulations to Zhenyu and other group members for their nice work! We also appreciate the collaboration with Prof. Xiaodong Zhuang @SJTU, Prof. Ming Li and Prof. Sanliang Ling @University of Nottingham!.Please Click the image below for the details!

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Zhenyu just successfully defended his thesis! CONGRATULATIONS! Dr. Yang! He has made incredible progress during his stay @ The Zhang Research Group, and we wish him a bright future!

Mr. Nachuan Li and Mr. Yonghang Xin join our research group as UROP! They are currently undergraduate students at SJTU. Welcome Nachuan and Yonghang!

Our former memeber Yihao Wu, currently Ph.D student at the Department of Philosophy @ Pekin University, came to visit us . He also shared his opinon on philosophy and natural science.

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Our research paper on "Spontaneous Resolution of Racemic Cage-Catenanes via Sequential Diastereomeric Enrichment and Supramolecular Narcissistic Self-Sorting" has been published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Congratulations to Pan and other group members for their nice work! We also appreciate the collaboration with Prof. Jinming Hu @USTC and Prof. Zhiqiang Liu @ZJUT!.Please Click the image below for the details!

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Our First Ph.D. Xiaoning just successfully defended her thesis! CONGRATULATIONS, Dr. Liu! We really appreciate her hardwork and contribution to the Zhang Research Group, and wish her a bright future!

Our research paper on "A Class of Organic Cages Featuring Twin Cavities" has been accepted in Nat. Commun.! Congratulations to Zhenyu and other group members for their nice work!.Thanks to Prof. Chunyang Yu for his great help of DFT calculation and molecular dynamic simulations. Please Click the image below for the details!

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Summer holidays are around the corner ! We organized a two-day tour at Qiandao Lake, where we enjoyed rafting, hiking and BBQ. Check out the pictures in GROUP PHOTOS！

Our research paper on "Guest-Mediated Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Dissymmetric Organic Cages to Form Supramolecular Ferroelectrics" has been published in CCS Chem., which is Chinese Chemical Society's flagship journal! Congratulations to Xiaoning and other group members for their nice work!.Please Click the image below for the details!

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Dr. Jiajia Zhang joins our research group as Postdoctoral Research Fellow! He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Quan Gan. Welcome Jiajia!

Our research paper with Prof. Zhiqiang Liu @Zhejiang University of Technology on "Single‐handed Double Helix and Spiral Platelet Formed by Racemate of Dissymmetric Cages" has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.! Congratulations to Xiaoning and other group members for their nice work! Please Click the image below for the details!

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Our research paper with Prof. Yongfeng Zhou on "Asymmetric Vesicles Self-Assembled by Amphiphilic Sequence-Controlled Polymers" has been published in ACS Macro Lett.! Congratulations to Pei for her nice work! Please Click the image below for the details!

Dr. Dandan Tao and Dr. Junbo Chen join our research group as Postdoctoral Research Fellow! They both obtained his Ph.D. degree from Xiamen University, under the supervision of Prof. Yunbao Jiang and Prof. Xiaoyu Cao, respectively. Welcome Dandan and Junbo!

Miss Fangyi Chen, Mr. Weihao Wang and Mr. Enguang Fu join our research group as UROP! They are currently undergraduate students at SJTU. Welcome Fangyi, Weihao and Enguang!

Mr. Shaoqiang Wang and Mr. Yoshiaki Kuboi join our research group as Master Student! Welcome Shaoqiang and Yoshiaki!

Dr. Qiangyu Zhu joins our research group as Postdoctoral Research Fellow! Qiangyu obtained his Ph.D. degree from Fuzhou Institute of Research on the Structure under the supervision of Prof. Qingfu Sun. Welcome Qiangyu!

Our research paper on "Catenated Cages Mediated by Enthalpic Reaction Intermediates" has been published in CCS Chemistry, which is Chinese Chemical Society's flagship journal! Congratulations to Shijun and Pan for their nice work! Please Click the image below for the details!

Our invited review on "Chiral Self-Sorting in Cage-like Compounds" has been accepted in Chem. Lett. ! Congratulations to Chuanlong, Yong and Yu-Quan for their nice work! Please Click the image below for the details!

Our Master students Miss Ziying Li, Miss Zhongwei Sun, and Mr. Shijun Xu graduated and left the lab. Congratulations to Ziying, Zhongwei and Shijun for your excellent achievements! We wish you a bright future and colorful life for your new endeavors! We are also very grateful for your contributions to the Zhang Research Group.

Pan, Xiaoning, Shijun and Prof. Zhang attended IUPAC 2019 at Paris, France. Pan, Xiaoning and Shijun gave poster presentations, and Prof. Zhang gave an oral presentation, respectively!

Our research paper on "Controlled Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Catenated Cages" has been published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. ! Congratulations to Zhongwei and Pan for their nice work! Please Click the image below for the details!

Our research paper with Prof. Zhiqiang Liu @Zhejiang University of Technology and Prof. Xiaoyun Liu @ECUST on "De novo Construction of Catenane with Dissymmetric Cages via Space-Discriminative Post-Assembly Modification" has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.! Congratulations to Pan and Shijun for their nice work! Please Click the image below for the details!

Our research paper with Prof. Xiaoyun Liu @ECUST on "Amphiphilic Organic Cages: Self-Assembly into Nanotubes and Enhanced Anion-Pi Interactions" has been published in ChemPlusChem ! Congratulations to Zi-Ying and Chuanlong for their nice work! Please Click the image below for the details!

Prof. Takuzo Aida visited our group and delivered a Master Distinguished Lecture with the tile "Supramolecular Polymerization: Its Significance and Applications to Materials Science" @SJTU !

Mr. Jiaolong Chen joins our research group as Master Student! Jiaolong obtained his Bachelor's degree from Soochow University . Welcome Jiaolong!

Pan's baby girl Yiyi Li is born. Congrats Pan! He is the first parent in the group!

Dr. Chuanlong Li joins our research group as Postoctoral Research Fellow! Chuanlong obtained his Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the supervision of Prof. Wei Huang and Prof. Yongfeng Zhou. Welcome Chuanlong!

The Zhang Research Group have more people now!

Miss. Jiayi Wu joins our research group as UROP from University of Edinburgh (UK)! Welcome Jiayi!

Dr. Bilal El Asaad joins our research group as Postdoctoral Research Fellow! Bilal obtained his Ph.D. degree from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France) and the Lebanese University (Lebanon) under the supervision of Prof. Marc Lemaire and Prof Iyad Karamé. Welcome Bilal!

Our joint paper with Dr. Wenge Jiang @Tianjin University and Prof. Marc D. McKee @McGill University on "homochirality in biomineral suprastructures induced by assembly of single-enantiomer amino acids from a nonracemic mixture" has been published in Nat. Commun.! Congratulations to Wenge and thanks to the McKee group for this fruitful collaboration! Please Click the image below for the details!

Group Members Lihua and Xiaoning won the Champion and third place in the Table Tennis Championship at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering! Well done, girls!

The Zhang Group won the runner-up in the Basketball Championship at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering! Well done!

Dr. Laurent Bouteiller from Sorbonne University (My Alma Matter) in France visited our group and delivered a lecture entitled "Supramolecular polymers as responsive and chirally amplified platforms for catalysis" at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering!

Prof. Virgil Percec visited our group again and delivered a lecture with the tile "Bioinspired Synthesis and Self-Organization of Programmed Complex Functional Systems" at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering!

Mr. Jianping Xu Joins our research group as Research Assistant. Jianping obtained his Master's Degree from Shantou University, where he worked on the design, synthesis and application of metal-organic cages with Prof. Dan Li. Welcome, Jianping!

Dr. Bertrand Donnio from Université de Strasbourg and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France visited our group and delivered a lecture entitled "Ligand-Directed Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles" at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering!