Li Sidian, deputy Party secretary of Shanxi University, and Wei Xuehong, director of the Large Scientific Instrument Center, were invited to participate in an academic exchange event and explore scientific cooperation in Germany and France from Aug 26 to Sept 7.

The two Shanxi University professors paid a 13-day visit to the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Aachen University of Technology in Germany and the University of Strasbourg in France and met with Professor Ulli Englert and Professor Jern-Merie Lehn, who has won the Bell Chemistry Prize and is considered the father of supramolecules.

Li Sidian delivered an academic report entitled “Boron Nanomaterials: from planar borophenes, cage-like borospherenes, to boronanotubes” at the Aachen University of Technology and one entitled “B/C Analogy andFluxional Bonds in Chemistry: From Planar Borophenes, Cage-Like Borospherenes, and Boron Nanotubes to Their Metal-Doped Nanostructures” at the University of Strasbourg.

Li Sidian, deputy Party secretary of Shanxi University, meets with Professor Ulli Englert at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of Aachen University of Technology in Germany. [Photo/sxu.edu.cn]

Li Sidian, deputy Party secretary of Shanxi University, and Wei Xuehong, director of the Large Scientific Instrument Center, pose for a photo with Professor Jern-Merie Lehn, who has won the Bell Chemistry Prize and is considered the father of supramolecules, at the University of Strasbourg in France. [Photo/sxu.edu.cn]

Li Sidian delivers an academic report at the University of Strasbourg in France. [Photo/sxu.edu.cn]