6月27日，美国佐治亚理工大学夏幼南教授来实验室进行学术交流与访问，并为师生们作题为"Recent Developments in the Synthesis of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals"的学术报告。

报告人简介：
  Younan Xia is the Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987, a M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania (with Prof. Alan G. MacDiarmid) in 1993, and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University (with Prof. George M. Whitesides) in 1996. His group has invented a myriad of elegant approaches to the facile synthesis of metal nanocrystals with well-controlled sizes, shapes, structures, compositions, and properties, which did not exist previously. These novel nanocrystals open up a world of opportunities for many applications. For example, his technology on silver nanowires has been commercialized by Cambrios for flexible, transparent, and conductive coatings sought in applications such as touch screen, flexible electronics, and photovoltaics. He has co-authored more than 530 publications in peer-reviewed journals, together with a total citation of more than 63,000 and an h-index of 133. He has been named a Top 10 Chemist and Materials Scientist based on the number of citation per publication. He has received a number of prestigious awards, including American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2013); Materials Research Society (MRS) Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2013), NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006); ACS Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award (2005); David and Lucile Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering (2000); NSF CAREER Award (2000); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2000); and ACS Victor K. LaMer Award (1999). He has served as an Associate Editor of Nano Letters since 2002 and he is serving on the advisory boards of many journals including Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Nano Today.