2018年12月7日美国南佛罗里达大学李霄鹏教授学术报告

报告摘要：

Structural complexity dictates the properties and functions of biological and chemical systems. Coordination-driven self-assembly offers a ‘bottom-up' approach to mimic nature's activities.  For decades, supramolecular chemists continued to improve the design of metallo-supramolecules with comparable complexity as nature does. In many cases, metallo-supramolecules in previous reports are limited to simple polygons and polyhedrons using simple building blocks. The corresponding abiological assemblies, however, still suffered from a lack of complexity and thus were unable to reach the high degrees of functionality found in natural systems. With the goal of increasing the complexity of metallo-supramolecules, we designed and assembled a series of architectures, including Kandinsky circles, fractals, grids and polyhedrons. In this talk, I would like to share our story in the journey of observation of nature, inspiration by nature, expression of art and exploration of science driven by curiosity。

报告人简介：

李霄鹏，美国University of South Florida 化学系助理教授。 2004年获郑州大学化学专业学士学位，2008年获美国Cleveland State University 化学博士学位，2009-2012年在美国University of Akron从事博士后研究。 2012-2016年在Texas State University化学系开展独立工作。2016年受聘于南佛罗里达大学。曾获得多个奖项，包括英国皇家化学会Fellow、中美华人化学与化学生物学教授协会杰出青年教授奖、美国Research Corporation基金会Cottrell学者奖。共发表了110余篇论文，其中48篇发表于Nature, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, PNAS, JACS, Angew Chem, Nano Lett。研究工作集中于超分子化学和质谱表征技术。从2009年起，率先把离子淌度质谱运用到配位超分子表征，为超分子研究提供了新的表征手段。课题组从2012起逐步建立起独立的合成团队，提出了基于配位点密度 (Density of Coordination Sites) 的超分子设计理念, 基于此不断的拓宽配体的多样性，提高组装结构的复杂程度，最终赋予超分子新的功能。