12月17日，美国佛罗里达大学的Prof. Y. Charles Cao前来实验室进行学术交流与访问，并为师生们作了题为“Colloidal Superparticles: A New Frontier of Nanomaterials”的学术报告。

报告人简介：
　　Dr. Charles Cao is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida. He received his BSc (1990), MSc (1993), and PhD degrees (1996) from Jilin University in Changchun. He then worked as a postdoctorial fellow in the Institute of Photographic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Northwestern University at Evanston, before he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida in 2003. His research interests focus on the science of nanomaterials. His work seeks todevelop methodologies for controlling the surface and interior structures of materials at the nanometer scale, for better understanding the thermodynamic and quantum mechanical properties of these materials and for using them in technology applications. Dr. Cao has published over 60 papers in highly regarded research journals, including Nature, Science, the Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie. He was a guest editor for special issues of two international journals on the topic of nanomedicine. His accomplishments have been recognized with an NSF Career Award and covered in several highlight articles in Chemical Engineering News, Science, and many popular magazines, newspapers and trade journals. His research program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and Department of Energy.