We will hold the first XACS workshop on 22-24 April 2022. The predecessors of XACS workshops were XMVB workshops hosted by Xiamen University. XACS workshop will be hybrid online/offline domestic (i.e., held for participants in China) event with offline part only for Xiamen University staff and students due to the current epidemic situation.This 3-day workshop has the following tentative schedul...

To celebrate Xiamen University's 100th anniversary, Advanced Materials published a Special Issue presenting a snapshot of cutting-edge research activities on materials carried out by the faculty and alumni of Xiamen University. This issue covers a broad scope of topics, including adaptive materials, biomaterials, catalytic materials, energy materials, hybrid materials, optical materials. Profes...

Recently, the International Battery Materials Association (IBA) issued a notice that Prof. Yang Yong from Xiamen university will serve as the first Vice-Chairman of IBA from November 2021. This is the first time that a Chinese scholar has served in the managing team of IBA.  Yong Yang is a distinguished professor of College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Xiamen University. He also ser...

On December 2, 2021, Professor Jian-Feng Li, a member of the lab, cooperated with Professor Pan Feng from Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, published a paper in Nature entitled In situ Raman spectroscopy reveals the structure and dissociation of interfacial water, which revealed the properties of interfacial water and their effects on the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (...

On November 18, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced the list of latest academician additions. Professor Su-yuan Xie, deputy director of the lab, was elected as academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.Professor Xie has focused on carbon clusters for more than twenty years. He proposed the "strain relief" and "local aromaticity" principles for the stabilization of fused-pentagon fulleren...

On October 25-29, 2021, the IBA 2021 annual meeting was successfully held in Xiamen at the Harbourview Millennium Hotel, under the sponsorship of the International Battery Materials Association, Battery Technology Association of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Xiamen University (XMU), and State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces. Prof. Jianl...

The International Symposium on Machine Learning in Quantum Chemistry (SMLQC) will be held in Nov. 12–14, 2021. It will gather the theoretical and computational chemists, who use machine learning to accelerate and improve quantum chemical simulations. The topics of the conference include, but not be limited to, the development of new quantum chemical techniques improved by machine learning, dev...

On November 3, 2021, the 2020 National Science and Technology Award conference was held in the Great Hall of the people. "Chelation chemistry of carbon chain and metal", the scientific research achievement of Haiping Xia 's team won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award. Haiping Xia, Hong Zhang, Jun Zhu, Congqing Zhu and Tongdao Wang, the key contributors of the achievement, at...

Recently, "NMR and MRI of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials and Devices" edited by Prof. Yong Yang of Xiamen University was officially published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (DOI: 10.1039/9781839160097).  Energy storage materials and devices are the important research objects in the multidisciplinary fields such as the materials science, energy science, and chemical science. During ...

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology needs a very large number of electronic components to process information and transmit data, which leads to intensive energy consumption. A shift in computation from calculation and storage to pattern recognition and other AI tasks also drives the need for more energy-efficient architectures. The development in brain science has g...