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2010-7-13: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was granted a Scientific Research Project for Returned Scholars, Ministry of Education of China (40K RMB). Congratulations! We acknowledge Ministry of Education of China for the financial support.

2010-7-13: In collaboration with Prof. Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden), Chuanbao Chen and Shangfeng Yang's paper "The Spin-Flow Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules with Flexible Spin Density: Electrochemistry, ESR, Cluster and Spin Dynamics, and Bonding in TiSc2N@C80" was accepted by ACS Nano,Congratulations!

2010-7-2: Our group make a Farewell Party for Undergraduates Ms. Qinwen Zhu, Mr. Pan Xu, and Mr. Jinguo Yang <photos>. We thank them for their works and contributions to the growth of the group. Mr. Pan Xu and Ms. Qinwen Zhu will take their PhD study in State Univ. of New York (SUNY)-Stony Brook and Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (HKUST). Mr. Jinguo Yang joins our group for research work. We wish them all the best for the future!

2010-6-30: Graduate Mr. Tao Wei joined our group. Welcome!

2010-6-20 to 6-23: Prof. Shangfeng Yang, Mr. Minghua Li, Mr. Chuanbao Chen, Mr. Wenfeng Zhang (all PhD candidates) attended the 27th CCS Congress, which was held in Xiamen, China. Prof. Shangfeng Yang presented two talks: "Endohedral Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: a Novel Form of Fullerenes" (Nanochemistry Symposium) and "Novel Endohedral Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: Synthesis, Structure and Properties" (Inorganic Chemistry Symposium). Mr. Minghua Li presented a talk "Donor-p-Acceptor Double-Cable Polythiophenes Bearing Fullerene Pendant with Tunable Donor/Acceptor Ratio: A Facile Postpolymerization" (Electrochemistry and Energetic Chemistry Symposium) while both Mr. Chuanbao Chen and Mr. Wenfeng Zhang presented posters <photos>.

2010-6-18: Undergraduates Ms. Qinwen Zhu, Mr. Pan Xu, and Mr. Jinguo Yang passed their defences for the bachelor degree. Mr. Pan Xu was awarded the "Excellent Undergraduates 2010 of USTC". Congratulations!

2010-6-18: Prof. Shangfeng Yang passed a defence for a "Innovative Team Project" of USTC (1000K RMB), which is the integration of several research groups from different departments working in the field of new concept solar cells. Congratulations!

2010-6-14 to 6-17: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 8th National Symposium on Electronic Process Organic Solids, which was held in Xi'an, China, and presented an invited talk: "Donor-pi-Acceptor Double-Cable Polythiophenes Bearing Fullerene Pendant with Tunable Donor/Acceptor Ratio: A Facile Postpolymerization & An Introduction to Endohedral Fullerenes".

2010-6-14: Shangfeng Yang and Wenfeng Zhang's paper (in collaboration with Prof. Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden)) "A Facile Route to Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes Using Guanidinium Salts: A Selective Organic Solid as the Nitrogen Source" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J.,Congratulations!

2010-6-10: Undergraduate Mr. Boxue Chen joined our group. Welcome!

2010-5-10: Shangfeng Yang and Fupin Liu's invited review paper "Novel Endohedral Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: Synthesis, Structure and Property" was accepted by Progress in Chemistry (Hua Xue Jin Zhan). Congratulations!

2010-5-9: Our group was gathered for a barbecue in Science Island, Hefei, and two talented undergraduates from School for the Gifted Young were invited as well as two beautiful girls. Everybody enjoyed the barbecue and it was the happy time for our big family <photos>.

2010-4-25: Prof. Shangfeng Yang received a travel grant in the amount of $300 for the 217th ECS Meeting. Congratulations!

2010-4-25 to 4-30: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 217th ECS Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada and presented two talks: "Putting Titanium (III) Metal into the C80-Ih Clusterfullerenes" -- the Keynote talk in H5 (Endofullerenes and Carbon Nanocapsules) session (one of two Keynote talks among 20 talks); "One-pot Synthesis of New Thio-Derivatives of C60 with the Unexpected Formation of a Thiazolidine-fulleropyrrolidine" in H2 (Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes) session.

2010-4-16: In collaboration with Prof. Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden), Shangfeng Yang's paper "An endohedral redox sytem in a fullerene cage: The Ce based mixed cluster fullerene Lu2CeN@C80" was accepted by Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Congratulations!

2010-4-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was awarded a travel grant in the amount of $300 for the 217th ECS Meeting by the Fullerenes, Nanotubes & Carbon Nanostructures Division.

2010-4-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited School of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University and gave a talk "Synthesis of Novel Endohedral Fullerenes and Functionalization of Fullerenes" upon the invitation of Prof. Louzhen Fan.

2010-4-6 to 4-8: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 370th XiangShan Meeting: "Symposium on the Development Strategy of Carbonaceous Nanomaterials" which was held in XiangShan, Beijing.

2010-3-18: Undergraduate Mr. Pan Xu of our group participated in "The Bangkok Business Challenge @ Sasin 2010" together with several undergraduates from MBA and Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and entered the Play-off Round Competition. The USTC team with the proposed project based on the technology of the plastics solar cells developed in our group finally won the "Recognition of Environmental Concerns" Award <news>. Congratulations!

2010-3-12: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Chuanbao Chen and Shangfeng Yang's paper "Chlorination of C86 to C84Cl32 with Non-classical Heptagon-containing Fullerene Cage Formed by Cage Shrinking" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations!

2010-3-11: In collaboration with Prof. Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden), Shangfeng Yang's paper "Metal Sulfide in a C82 Fullerene Cage: A New Form of Endohedral Clusterfullerenes" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations!

2010-3-8: Undergraduate Ms. Qinwen Zhu joined our group for the bachelor dissertation work. Welcome!

2010-3-2: Undergraduate Mr. Zhan Xu joined our group. Welcome!

2010-2-12: Minghua Li's paper "Donor-pi-Acceptor Double-Cable Polythiophenes Bearing Fullerene Pendant with Tunable Donor/Acceptor Ratio: A Facile Postpolymerization" was accepted by J. Mater. Chem. Congratulations!

2010-1-14: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was invited to attend the 217th ECS Meeting and will present our recent results on the synthesis of endohedral fullerenes as a Keynote speaker in H5 (Endofullerenes and Carbon Nanocapsules) session, which will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 25-30, 2010.

2009-1-5: The photo of group dinner and some useful reading resources (in Chinese) were uploaded.

2009-1-4: Prof. Xiaofang Li (Hunan University of Science and Technology) visited our group for collaborative experiments and will stay with us for one week.

2009-12-30: Our group get together for a dinner to celebrate the New Year -- the chinese Tiger Year.

2009-12-29: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was granted a provincial project (60K RMB). We acknowledge the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Anhui Province for the financial support.

2009-12-19: Pan Xu (an undergraduate of our group) participated in an innovative team which won the "Golden Prize" of university selection contest for "The 7th challenge cup" of Chinese college students business plan competition <news>. Their team will participte in the next competetion organized by Anhui Province <news>. The proposed project is based on the technology of plastic solar cells used in our group. Congratulations!

2009-12-18: Fei He's paper "Electrode Performance and Analysis of Intermediate Temperature Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Proton-Conducting Electrolyte of BaCe0.5Zr0.3Y0.2O3-δ" was just accepted by J. Power Sources. Congratulations!

2009-12-9: Minghua Li's paper "Fullerene Substitution of the Donor/Acceptor Branched Disubstituted Polyacetylenes: Significantly Accelerated Polymerization by the C60 Pendant" was just published as an Early View paper in Macromol. Chem. Phys.

2009-12-9: Chuanbao Chen's paper "One-pot Synthesis of New Thio Derivatives of C60 with the Unexpected Formation of Thiazolidine Fulleropyrrolidine" was just published as an Advance Article in New. J. Chem.

2009-11-1: Congratuations for the opening of our group homepage! Thanks to the great efforts of Muqing Chen and Hong Ying.

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Welcome to the Laboratory of Functional Fullerene Materials

2022-12-31: Our group organized an online annual summary meeting as a traditioanl group activity. All group members attended it and several excellent students were awarded. 2022-12-29: Yanbo Shang's paper "Lead Acetate as a Superior Lead Source Enables Highly Efficient and Stable All-inorganic Lead-Tin Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by Chem. Eng. J. Congratulations! 2022-12-14: In collaboration with Prof. Muqing Chen (Dongguan University of Technology, China) and Prof. Jiangzhao Chen (Chongqing University, China), Lingbo Jia's paper "Lowering the Dielectric Mismatch for Efficient Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells through Incorporating Cyano-functionalized Fullerene Additive" was accepted by Sci. China Mater. Congratulations! 2022-11-19 to 11-20: Ph.D. candidate Mr. Xingcheng Li attended the 12th Graduate Annual Meeting of School of Chemistry and Materials Science. He presented an oral presentation and was awarded the First Prize. Congratulations! 2022-11-18 to 11-20: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 8th Perovskite Materials and Devices Young Scholars Forum held in Suzhou and presented an invited talk entitled "Regulation of interfacial charge transport in perovskite solar cells". 2022-11-3: In collaboration with Prof. Zonglong Zhu (City University of Hong Kong, China), Xiaofen Jiang and Shangfeng Yang's paper "Highly Efficient Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells through Pentylammonium Acetate Modification over 23.6% efficiency" was accepted by Adv. Mater. Congratulations! 2022-10-31: In collaboration with Prof. Su-Yuan Xie (Xiamen University, China) and Dr. Alexey A. Popov (IFW-Dresden, Germany), Wenhao Xiang, Xiaole Jiang and Yang-Rong Yao's paper " paper "Monometallic endohedral azafullerene" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. as a Front Cover. Congratulations! 2022-10-25: Mr. Yanbo Shang passed his PhD thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! 2022-9-23: In collaboration with Prof. Zonglong Zhu (City University of Hong Kong, China), Xingcheng Li's paper "Modulating the deep-level defects and charge extraction for efficient perovskite solar cells with high fill factor over 86%" was accepted by Energy Environ. Sci. Congratulations! 2022-9-17: Our group organized a badminton match as a traditioanl group activity. All group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. After the match, our group had a welcome dinner for the new graduate students. <photos> 2022-9-15: In collaboration with Prof. Muqing Chen (Dongguan University of Technology, China), Xinyi Han's paper "Capturing the Long-Sought Dy@C2v(5)-C80 via Benzyl Radical Stabilization" was accepted by Nanomaterials. Congratulations! 2022-9-7: In collaboration with Prof. Xiang Zhao (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), Prof. Guan-Wu Wang (USTC, China) and Dr. Qianyan Zhang (Xiamen University, China), Muqing Chen's paper "Decisive role of non-rare earth metals in high-regioselectivity addition of μ3-carbido clusterfullerene" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Front. Congratulations! 2022-9-4: Visiting graduate students Miss Liufei Li and Miss Yandong Wang joined our group. Welcome! 2022-9-2 to 9-3: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the Bilateral Forum between School of Chemistry and Materials Science, USTC and Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences held in Fuzhou and presented an invited talk entitled "Metallofullerene Single Molecular Magnets". 2022-9-2: Graduate students Miss Rongyao Lv, Mr. Aile Wang, Mr. Chenyu Huang, Mr. Xinyu Li and Mr. Wenjie Zhao joined our group. Welcome! 2022-8-16: In collaboration with Dr. Qianyan Zhang (Xiamen University, China), Runnan Guan's paper "Self-Driven Carbon Atom Implantation into Fullerene Embedding Metal-Carbon Cluster" was accepted by PNAS. Congratulations! 2022-7-24 to 7-25: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 12th Symposium on Inorganic Non-metallic Materials held in Changsha. 2022-6-16: In collaboration with Prof. Zonglong Zhu (City University of Hong Kong, China), He Zhang's paper "Efficient and Stable Tin Perovskite Solar Cells by Pyridine-Functionalized Fullerene with Reduced Interfacial Energy Loss" was accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. Congratulations! 2022-6-13: In collaboration with Prof. Pingwu Du (USTC, China), Shangfeng Yang's paper "An Unexpected Dual-Emissive Luminogen with Tunable Aggregation-Induced Emission and Enhanced Chiroptical Property" was accepted by Nature Commun. Congratulations! 2022-5-29: Weiran Zhou's paper "An Improbable Amino-Functionalized Fullerene Spacer Enables 2D/3D Hybrid Perovskite with Enhanced Electron Transport in Solar Cells" was accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. Congratulations! 2022-5-24: Miss Lingbo Jia passed her PhD thesis defence successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2022-5-11: In collaboration with Prof. Guan-Wu Wang (USTC, China), Muqing Chen and Shangfeng Yang's paper "Unexpected Formation of Pyrazoline-Fused Metallofullerenes from the Multicomponent Cascade Reaction of Sc3N@Ih?C80 with Tetrazines, Water, and Oxygen" was accepted by Org. Lett. Congratulations! 2022-4-18: In collaboration with Prof. Weijie Song (Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, China), Shangfeng Yang's paper "A novel naphthalene diimide-based conjugated polymer as an electron transport material for non-fullerene organic solar cells" was accepted by New J. Chem. Congratulations! 2022-4-8: In collaboration with Dr. Zhimin Fang and Prof. Shengzhong (Frank) Liu (Shaanxi Normal University, China), Shangfeng Yang's paper "Ligand-Anchoring-Induced Oriented Crystal Growth for High-Efficiency Lead-Tin Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. Congratulations! 2022-3-24: Upon the invitation of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 5th FRSC Forum (online) and presented an invited talk entitled "Fullerene: Magic Molecule-based Optoelectronic Functional Materials". 2022-2-22: In collaboration with Prof. Shengzhong (Frank) Liu (Shaanxi Normal University, China), Shangfeng Yang's paper "Proton-transfer-induced in situ defect passivation for highly efficient wide-bandgap inverted perovskite solar cells" was accepted by InfoMat. Congratulations! 2022-1-28: Associate Professor Dr. Yangrong Yao joined our lab. Welcome! 2022-1-15: Our group organized an annual summary meeting as a traditioanl group activity. All group members attended it and several excellent students were awarded. 2021-12-18: In collaboration with Prof. Wenhua Zhang (Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, China), Xin Yu's paper "Multiple Bonding Effects of 1-Methanesulfonyl-Piperazine on the Two-step Processed Perovskite towards Efficient and Stable Solar Cells" was accepted by Nano Energy. Congratulations! 2021-12-8: Depty Governor of Anhui province Mr. Hui Liu visited our lab.<news> 2021-11-26 to 11-27: Dr. Muqing Chen and Mr. Xingcheng Li attended the 4th Symposium on the Development of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices held in Guangzhou, China,?Dr. Muqing Chen presented an invited talk entitled "Double-Site Defect Passivation of Perovskite Film via Fullerene Additive Engineering toward Highly Efficient and Stable Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells". 2021-11-24: Undergraduate student Miss Jiaxun Dai joined our group. Welcome! 2021-10-21 to 10-22 : Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended The National Dean Forum of MSE Discipline held by Huazhong University of Science and Technology and presented an invted talk introducing Department of MSE of USTC. 2021-9-26: Undergraduate students Mr. Jingbo Chai, Zhiqi Wang, Zeyan Cen joined our group. Welcome! 2021-9-24: Undergraduate student Mr. Shilong Wang was awarded the "GuoMoRuo Scholarship", the highest-honor Scholarship for Undergraduate students in USTC. Congratulations! 2021-9-23: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended The National Dean Forum of MSE Discipline held by Peking University and presented an invted talk introducing Department of MSE of USTC. 2021-9-12: Our group organized a badminton match as a traditioanl group activity. All group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. After the match, our group had a welcome dinner for the new graduate students. <photos> 2021-9-8: Xingcheng Li's paper "Phenylformamidinium-enabled quasi-2D Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite solar cells with improved stability" was accepted by J. Energy. Chem. Congratulations! 2021-9-6: Graduate students Miss Xinyi Han, Miss Weng Zhang, Mr. Shantao Zhang, Mr. Shuang Gao joined our group. Welcome! 2021-9-1: Undergraduate student Miss Xingyu Jin joined our group. Welcome! 2021-8-19: Dr. Muqing Chen was granted a general project from NSFC. Congratulations! 2021-8-12: In collaboration with Prof. Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China), Lingbo Jia's highlight paper "Using fluorinated and crosslinkable fullerene derivatives to improve the stability of perovskite solar cells" was accepted by J. Semicond. Congratulations! 2021-7-30 to 8-2: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) 2021 Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Central and Western Regions held in Lanzhou and presented an invited talk entitled "Metallofullerene Single Molecular Magnets". 2021-7-8 to 7-11: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended Chinese Materials Conference 2021 held in Xiamen and presented an invited talk entitled "Surface and interface passivation of perovskite layer in perovskite solar cells". 2021-7-1: In collaboration with Prof. Lihua Yang (USTC, China), Yajuan Liu's paper "Boosting Antitumor Sonodynamic Therapy Efficacy of Black Phosphorus via Covalent Functionalization" was accepted by Adv. Sci. Congratulations! 2021-6-1: Undergraduate student Mr. Dongzheng Zhang joined our group. Welcome! 2021-5-20: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Wuhan University of Technology upon the invitation of Prof. Yong Peng. He gave an invited talk entitled "Fullerene-Based Optoelectric Functional Materials". 2021-5-19: Miss Wanpei Hu, Miss Yajuan Liu and Mr. Runnan Guan passed their PhD thesis defences successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2021-5-10: In collaboration with Prof. Su-Yuan Xie (Xiamen University, China), Runnan Guan and Muqing Chen's paper "Capturing the Missing Carbon Cage Isomer of C84 via Mutual Stabilization of a Triangular Monometallic Cyanide Cluster" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations! 2021-5-10: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Beijing University of Technology upon the invitation of Prof. Qi Chen. He gave an invited talk entitled "Regulating Electron Transport Properties of Perovskite Solar Cells by Fullerene Functional Materials". 2021-5-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Tsinghua University upon the invitation of Prof. Chenyi Yi. He gave an invited talk entitled "Regulating Electron Transport Properties of Perovskite Solar Cells by Fullerene Functional Materials". 2021-5-8 to 5-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended The 8th Conference on Science and Technology of Emerging Solar Energy Materials held in Beijing and presented an invited talk entitled "Regulating Electron Transport Properties of Perovskite Solar Cells by Fullerene Functional Materials". 2021-5-8: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited National Center for Nanoscience and Technology upon the invitation of Prof. Liming Ding. He gave an invited talk entitled "Regulating Electron Transport Properties of Perovskite Solar Cells by Fullerene Functional Materials". 2021-5-6: In collaboration with Prof. Guan-Wu Wang (USTC, China), Muqing Chen's paper "Cu(I)-Catalyzed Synthesis of [60]Fullerene-Fused Lactams and Further Electrochemical Functionalization" was accepted by Org. Lett. Congratulations! 2021-4-27: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Suzhou Institute of Nanotechnology and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and presented an invited talk entitled "Fullerene-Based Optoelectric Functional Materials". 2021-4-19 to 4-22: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended The 32nd Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) Congress held in Zhuhai and presented an invited talk entitled "Application of Fullerene Functional Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells". 2021-4-16: Lingbo Jia's paper "Double-Site Defect Passivation of Perovskite Film via Fullerene Additive Engineering toward Highly Efficient and Stable Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells" was accepted by Nano Today. Congratulations! 2021-4-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Jiangxi Normal University upon the invitation of Prof. Yiwang Chen. He gave an invited talk entitled "Fullerene-Based Optoelectric Functional Materials". 2021-4-6: In collaboration with Prof. Pingwu Du (USTC, China), Huiqing Liu's paper "Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of [3]Cyclo-1,8-pyrenes via [4 + 2] Cycloaddition Reaction" was accepted by J. Org. Chem. Congratulations! 2021-3-31: In collaboration with Prof. Qianyan Zhang (Xiamen University, China) and Dr. Alexey A. Popov (IFW-Dresden, Germany), Fei Jin and Jinpeng Xin's paper "Stabilizing Three-Center Single-Electron Metal-Metal Bond in a Fullerene Cage" was accepted by Chem. Sci. Congratulations! 2021-3-29: In collaboration with Prof. XinqingWang (China Jiliang University, China), Bairu Li and Lingbo Jia's paper "Pyridine-functionalized Fullerene Derivative as an Independent Electron Transport Layer Enabling Efficient and Hysteresis-Free Regular Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by NanoSelect. Congratulations! 2021-2-26: In collaboration with Prof. Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China), Yanbo Shang's paper "Efficient and photostable CsPbI2Br solar cells realized by adding PMMA" was accepted by J. Semicond. Congratulations! 2021-2-1: Wanpei Hu's paper "In-situ Surface Fluorination of TiO2 Nanocrystals Reinforces Interface Binding of Perovskite Layer for Highly Efficient Solar Cells with Dramatically Enhanced Ultraviolet-Light Stability" was accepted by Adv. Sci. Congratulations! 2021-1-15: In collaboration with Dr. Qianyan Zhang (Xiamen University, China), Jinpeng Xin's paper "Ancient pigment to treasure: Prussian blue as a cheap solid cyanide/nitrogen dual-source affording high-yield syntheses of pricey endohedral clusterfullerenes" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Front. Congratulations! 2021-1-8: In collaboration with Prof. Yongfu Lian (Heilongjiang University, China), Runnan Guan's paper "The Favorite Orientation of Carbon Cage and Unique Two-dimensional Layered Packing Model in the Co-crystals of Nd@C82 (I, II) Isomers with Decapyrrylcorannulene" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2020-12-29: In collaboration with Prof. Guan-Wu Wang (USTC, China) and Prof. Peng Jin (Hebei University of Technology, China), Dr. Muqing Chen's paper "Anomalous Cis-conformation Regioselectivity of Heterocycle-fused Sc3N@D3h-C78 Derivatives" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2020-11-19: In collaboration with Prof. Ruiguo Cao (USTC, China), Jianhua Wu's paper "Pomegranate-Structured C60@Cobalt/Nitrogen-Codoped Porous Carbon for High-Performance Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Lithium-Sulfur Battery" was accepted by Nano Res. Congratulations! 2020-9-26: Yajuan Liu's review paper "Chemical Functionalization of 2D Black Phosphorus" was accepted by InfoMat. Congratulations! 2020-9-7: In collaboration with Prof. Wei Liu (Wuhan University, China), Yajuan Liu's paper "Enhancing the Photodynamic Therapy Efficacy of Black Phosphorus Nanosheets by Covalently Grafting Fullerene C60" was accepted by Chem. Sci. Congratulations! 2020-9-26: Our group organized a badminton match as a traditioanl group activity. All group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. After the match, our group had a welcome dinner for the new graduates. <photos> 2020-9-6: Graduate students Miss He Zhang, Miss Xue Wang, Mr. Xing Wang, Mr. Zhanxin Jiang Jin joined our group. Welcome! 2020-7-21: In collaboration with Prof. Jixian Xu (USTC, China), Bairu Li's review paper "Fast wetting of a fullerene capping layer improves the efficiency and scalability of perovskite solar cells" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations!. 2020-6-10: Lingbo Jia's review paper "Functionalization of Fullerene Materials toward Applications in Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by Mater. Chem. Front. Congratulations! 2020-5-31: Mr. Mengmeng Zhang, Mr. Qishi Liu, Mr. Zhimin Fang passed their PhD thesis defences successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2020-5-15: Runnan Guan's review paper "Endohedral metallofullerene single molecule magnets" was accepted by Chin. Sci. Bull. Congratulations! 2020-3-27: In collaboration with Dr. Wenfeng Zhang (Southwest Petroleum University, China), Mengmeng Zhang's paper "Surface Passivation of Perovskite Film by Sodium Toluenesulfonate for Highly Efficient Solar Cells" was accepted by Solar RRL. Congratulations! 2020-2-25: Mengmeng Zhang's paper "Modifying Mesoporous TiO2 by Ammonium Sulfonate Boosts Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2019-12-19: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was awarded a JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan. Congratulations! 2019-12-17 to 12-18: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the Mini-Workshop on Photovoltaic Materials and Devices held in Beijing, China, organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, and presented an invited talk entitled "Fullerene Functional Materials: Design, Synthesis and Applications". 2019-12-6 to 12-8: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the Workshop on Applied Chemistry held in Qingdao, China, organized by Qingdao University, and presented an invited talk entitled "Fullerene-Based Optoelectric Functional Materials". 2019-12-2: In collaboration with Prof. Lijun Zhang (Jilin University, China) and Prof. Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China), Wanpei Hu's paper "Bulk Heterojunction Gifts Bismuth-Based Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells with Record Efficiency" was accepted by Nano Energy. Congratulations! 2019-11-30 to 12-1: Ph.D. candidates Miss Wanpei Hu, Miss Yajuan Liu and Mr. Mengmeng Zhang attended the 5th Graduate Annual English Meeting of School of Chemistry and Materials Science and presented oral presentations. 2019-11-24: Our group organized a home party. <photos> 2019-11-23 to 11-24: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the Workshop on Advanced Energy Materials held in Zhengjiang, China, organized by Jiangsu University, and presented an invited talk entitled "Fullerene-Based Optoelectric Functional Materials". 2019-11-20 to 11-22: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended The 9th Dean's Forum of Materials College of National Famous Universities held in Guangzhou. 2019-11-20: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Congratulations! We thank NSFC for the financial support! 2019-11-8: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited The Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) upon the invitation of Prof. Gang Liu. He gave an invited talk entitled "Fullerene Functional Materials". 2019-11-6: In collaboration with Prof. Shihe Yang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, China), Wanpei Hu's review paper "Surface Modification of TiO2 for Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by Trends in Chem. Congratulations! 2019-11-5: Miss Bairu Li passed her PhD thesis defence successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2019-11-3 to 11-5: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 4th International Symposium on Fullerene Science held in Beijing and presented an invited talk entitled "Hybridizing Fullerenes and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials". 2019-11-1 to 11-3: Prof. Shangfeng Yang organized The 2nd Sino-Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation (SSSTC2019) Workshop on Endohedral Single Molecule Magnets, which was held in USTC campus. This workshop was jointly organized by School of Chemistry and Materials Science, USTC; Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale. This workshop attracted more than 80 participants, including 2 academicians (Profs. Hongjun Gao, Jiangfeng Du). We thank all of the participants for the support! <news-USTC><news-SCMS><news-KeyLab><news-MSE> 2019-10-25: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was elected as Fellow of RSC (FRSC). Congratulations! 2019-10-11: In collaboration with Prof. Hua Yang (China Jiliang University, China), Mengmeng Zhang's paper "Functionalization of Fullerene by Polyethylene Glycol toward Promoted Electron Transport in Inverted Polymer Solar Cells" was accepted by Org. Electron. Congratulations! 2019-10-9 to 10-11: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the World University Forum on Materials Science & Engineering Leadership held in Wuhan. 2019-10-9: In collaboration with Prof. Guan-Wu Wang (USTC, China), Dr. Muqing Chen's paper "Palladium-Catalyzed Heteroannulation of Indole-1-carboxamides with [60]Fullerene and Subsequent Electrochemical Transformations" was accepted by Org. Lett. Congratulations! 2019-9-30: Miss Wanpei Hu, Mr. Runnan Guan and Miss Jianhua Wu were awarded the "National Scholorship" (国家奖学金). 2019-9-15: Our group organized a badminton match as a traditioanl group activity. All group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. After the match, our group had a welcome dinner for the new graduates. <photos> 2019-9-6: In collaboration with Prof. Guan-Wu Wang (USTC, China), Bairu Li's paper "Electrochemical Benzylation of [60]Fullerene-Fused Lactones: Unexpected Formation of Ring-Opened Adducts and Their Photovoltaic Performance" was accepted by Org. Lett. Congratulations! 2019-9-3: Ph.D. candidates Miss Chang Xie, Mr. Huichao Zhang, Graduate students Miss Xiaofen Jiang, Mr. Wenhao Xiang, Mr. Huaimin Jin joined our group. Welcome! 2019-8-21 to 8-24: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 9th Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) Annual User Meeting held in Yinchuan China and presented an invited talk entitled "Fullerene Functional Materials". 2019-8-20 to 8-21: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 10th National Conference on Inorganic Chemistry of CAS held in Jinan, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Endohedral Fullerene Single Molecular Magnets". 2019-8-20: Prof. Dirk Guldi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation and had fruitful discussions with us. 2019-8-17 to 8-19: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 8th International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, China 2019 (ChinaNANO 2019) held in Beijing, China and presented a keynote talk entitled "Hybridizing Fullerenes and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials". 2019-7-10 to 7-14: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended Chinese Materials Conference 2019 held in Chengdu, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Surface Modifications of TiO2 in Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells". 2019-7-5: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Xiamen University upon the invitation of Prof. Su-Yuan Xie. He gave an invited talk entitled "Fullerene Functional Materials". 2019-6-2: Miss Dan Li, Miss Weiran Zhou, Miss Xiangfeng Wei, and Mr. Fei Jin passed their PhD thesis defences successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2019-5-25 to 5-26: Ph.D. candidates Mr. Mengmeng Zhang, Miss Wanpei Hu, Miss Lingbo Jia and Mr. Yanbo Shang attended the sixth Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells & New Generation Solar Cells held in Beijing, China. Mr. Mengmeng Zhang and Miss Wanpei Hu presented poster presentations, Miss Wanpei Hu was awarded the Best Poster Award. Congratulations! 2019-5-24: In collaboration with Prof. Zhengguo Xiao (USTC, China), Pengcheng Zhou's paper "Nitrogen-Doped Nickel Oxide as Hole Transport Layer for High-Efficiency Inverted Planar Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by Solar RRL. Congratulations! 2019-5-23: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang's review paper "Chlorination-Promoted Skeletal Transformations of Fullerenes" was accepted byAcc. Chem. Res. Congratulations! 2019-5-22: In collaboration with Prof. Yangchao Tian (USTC, China), Jianhua Wu and Xianjun Zhu's paper "From Cube to Dice: Solvent-Regulated Morphology Engineering of Endohedral Fullerene Microcrystals with Anomalous Photoluminescence Enhancement" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2019-5-5: Mr. Fei Jin was awarded the "The CAS President Excellent Scholarship". Congratulations! 2019-4-14: Ph.D. candidates Miss Weiran Zhou, Miss Dan Li, Miss Bairu Li, and Miss Xiangfei Wei attended the 8th Graduate Annual Meeting of School of Chemistry and Materials Science and presented oral presentations. 2019-4-5: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Runnan Guan and Fei Jin's paper "Stable C92(26) and C92(38) as Well as Unstable C92(50) and C92(23) Isolated-Pentagon-Rule Isomers As Revealed by Chlorination of C92 Fullerene" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2019-4-3: Undergraduate student Mr. Shilong Wang joined our group. Welcome! 2019-4-3: In collaboration with Prof. Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China), Zhimin Fang's paper "CsPbI2.25Br0.75 solar cells with 15.9% efficiency" was accepted by Sci. Bull. Congratulations! 2019-3-18: In collaboration with Prof. Shihe Yang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, China), Weiran Zhou's paper "Zwitterion Coordination Induced Highly Orientational Order of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Film Delivers a Record Open Circuit Voltage Exceeding 1.2 V" was accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. Congratulations! 2019-3-18: Runnan Guan's review paper "Strain Release of Fused Pentagons on Fullerene Cage via Chemical Functionalization" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2019-3-9: Miss Qing Liu and Mr. Pengcheng Zhou passed their PhD thesis defences successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2019-3-5: In collaboration with Prof. Pingwu Du (USTC, China), Shangfeng Yang's paper "Photoconductive curved-nanographene/fullerene supramolecular heterojunctions" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2019-2-26: Graduate student Mr. Xiaole Jiang, Undergraduate students Miss Yulu Cao, Mr. Peiseng Qian, Mr. Jiaping Hu joined our group. Welcome! 2019-1-29: In collaboration with Prof. Jiehua Liu (Hefei University of Technology, China), Xiangfeng Wei's paper "Exfoliated graphitic carbon nitride self-recognizing CH3NH3PbI3 grain boundaries by hydrogen bonding interaction for improved perovskite solar cells" was accepted by Solar Energy. Congratulations! 2019-1-18: The Annual Group Meeting of Lab. of Functional Fullerene Materials was held successfully. All group members attended the meeting, presenting their annual summary work for the past year. Three sub-groups summarized their annual progresses, and competed for the best-presentation prize based on the votings of all participants. Besides, Prof. Shangfeng Yang awarded the annual best-behavior prizes to Miss Yajuan Liu, Mr. Runnan Guan and Miss Jianhua Wu. After the meeting, our group got together for a dinner to celebrate the harvest of 2018 and the coming Chinese New Year of Pig. 2019-1-9: Jieming Zhen and Weiran Zhou's paper "Pyridine-functionalized Fullerene Additive Enabling Coordination Interactions with CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite towards Highly Efficient Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells" was accepted by J. Mater. Chem. A. Congratulations! 2018-12-20: In collaboration with Prof. Shihe Yang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, China), Wanpei Hu's paper "Low-Temperature In-situ Amino Functionalization of TiO2 Nanoparticles Sharpens Electron Management Reaping over 21% Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by Adv. Mater. Congratulations! 2018-12-18: In collaboration with Prof. Su-Yuan Xie (Xiamen University, China), Shangfeng Yang's paper "Flexible decapyrrylcorannulene hosts" was accepted by Nature Commun. Congratulations! 2018-12-17 to 12-20: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 12th Aseanian Conference on Nano-hybrid Solar Cells (NHSC-12) held in Shenzhen, China, and presented an invited talk entitled "Promoting Electron Transport of Perovskite Solar Cells via Incorporating Novel Fullerene Derivative". 2018-12-8 to 12-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended Beijing Energy Summit 2018 held in Beijing, China, and presented an invited talk entitled "Promoting Electron Transport of Perovskite Solar Cells via Incorporating Novel Fullerene Derivative". 2018-12-7: In collaboration with Profs. Jinlong Yang and Hengxing Ji (USTC, China), Yajuan Liu's paper "Azide Passivation of Black Phosphorus Nanosheets: Covalent Functionalization Affords Ambient Stability Enhancement" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2018-11-30 to 12-2: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 3rd International Conference on Organic Optoelectronics (ICOOE 2018) held in Ningbo, China, and presented an invited talk entitled "Novel Fullerene Derivatives as Efficient Electron Transport Layer of Perovskite Solar Cells". 2018-11-19: Prof. Jieshan Qiu (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation and had fruitful discussions with us. 2018-11-12: Visiting graduate student Miss Yu Zhang joined our group. Welcome! 2018-11-8 to 11-11: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 15th Conference on Solid State Chemistry and Inorganic Synthesis held in Fuzhou, China, and presented an invited talk entitled "Hybrids of Fullerenes and Two-dimensional Materials". 2018-11-1: Qing Liu and Xiang Chen's paper "Beyond Metal Oxides: Introducing Low-temperature Solution-processed Ultrathin Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets into Polymer Solar Cells toward Improved Electron Transport" was accepted by Solar RRL. Congratulations! 2018-10-26: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Suzhou University upon the invitation of Prof. Lai Feng. He gave an invited talk entitled "Fullerene Functional Materials". 2018-10-24: Miss Dan Li and Mr. Fei Jin were awarded the "Suzhou Yu Cai Scholarship". Congratulations! 2018-9-16: Our group organized a badminton match as a traditioanl group activity. All group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. After the match, our group had a welcome dinner for the new graduates. <photos> 2018-9-8: Visiting graduate student Mr. Jinpeng Xin joined our group. Welcome! 2018-9-3: Graduate students Miss Xin Yu, Miss Huiqing Liu, Mr. Xingcheng Li joined our group. Welcome! 2018-8-31: Xianjun Zhu's paper "Stabilizing black phosphorus nanosheets via edge-selectively bonding sacrificial C60 molecules" was accepted by Nature Commun. Congratulations! 2018-8-28: Bairu Li's paper "Anchoring Fullerene Derivative onto Perovskite Film via Grafting Pyridine toward Enhanced Electron Transport in High-Efficiency Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2018-8-13 to 8-16: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 3rd International Symposium on Fullerene Sciences held in Tonghua, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Endohedral Fullerene Single Molecular Magnets". 2018-8-3: Prof. Qiquan Qiao (South Dakota State University, USA) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Simple and Efficient Combination of Perovskite Solar Cells with Lithium Ion Battery" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2018-8-3: Prof. Shihe Yang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Hybrid Halide Perovskite Solar Cells – Progress and Challenges" as one of the USTC 60th Anniversary Honorary Lecture Series on Chemistry and Materials Science, and had fruitful discussions with us. 2018-8-3: Muqing Chen, Runnan Guan and Shangfeng's review paper "Hybrids of Fullerenes and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials" was accepted by Adv. Sci . Congratulations! 2018-8-1: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended International Conference on Energy and Environmental Materials (ICEEM 2018) held in Hefei, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Hybridizing Fullerenes and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials toward Enhanced Catalytic Activities" in Section-8: Nanomaterials for Catalysis. 2018-7-31: Prof. Prashant V. Kamat (University of Notre Dame, USA) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Hype and Hope of Mixed Halide Lead Perovskite Solar Cells" as one of the USTC 60th Anniversary Honorary Lecture Series on Chemistry and Materials Science, and had fruitful discussions with us. 2018-7-30: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 22nd International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy (IPS-22) held in Hefei, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Novel Fullerene Derivatives as Efficient Electron Transport Layer of Perovskite Solar Cells" in Session 6: the Hybrid organic/inorganic perovskite solar cells. 2018-7-27: Prof. Hiroshi Imahori (Kyoto University, Japan) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Photoinduced Charge Separation and Solar Energy Conversion in Donor-Acceptor Systems" as one of the USTC 60th Anniversary Honorary Lecture Series on Chemistry and Materials Science, and had fruitful discussions with us. 2018-7-20: Xiang Chen's paper "Noncovalent phosphorylation of graphene oxide with improved hole transport in high-ef?ciency polymer solar cells" was accepted by Nanoscale. Congratulations! 2018-7-12 to 7-16: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended Chinese Materials Conference 2018 held in Xiamen, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Applications of Fullerene Derivatives in Perovskite Solar Cells". 2018-7-9 to 7-13: Six international undergraduate students Jayden Ramsey (Murdoch University), Phonlakrit Huang-Non (University of Newcastle), Chikov Nikolay (Moscow State University), Potaenko Maroarita (Moscow State University), Lvanchenko Oleksandr (Kharkiv National University), Asher Jintoorkar (University of Newcastle) joined our group for short-term research projects during the Future Chemist International Summer Camp. Welcome! 2018-7-2: Prof. Shangfeng Yang gave a talk for the Future Chemist International Summer Camp. 2018-6-17: In collaboration with Prof. Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China), Qishi Liu's paper "Understanding the side-chain effects on A–D–A acceptors: in-plane and out-of-plane" was accepted by Mater. Chem. Front. Congratulations! 2018-6-5: Miss Xianjun Zhu passed her PhD thesis defence successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2018-5-27 to 5-30: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 12th (2018) International Solar Photovoltaic and Smart Energy Conference held in Shanghai, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Functional graphene and graphene-analogous materials for polymer solar cells" in the Photovoltaic Applications of Graphenes Summit Forum. 2018-5-13 to 5-17: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 233rd ECS Meeting held in Seattle, USA and presented an invited talk entitled "Cage Skeletal Transformation of Fullerene via Chlorination". He also chaired the Morning sessions as well as the poster session as the Lead Organizers of the symposium "B05 — Fullerenes - Endohedral Fullerenes and Molecular Carbon". 2018-5-13: In collaboration with Prof. Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China), Zhimin Fang's paper "CsAg2Sb2I9 solar cells" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Front. Congratulations! 2018-4-22: Ph.D. candidates Miss Xianjun Zhu and Mr. Pengcheng Zhou attended the 7th Graduate Annual Meeting of School of Chemistry and Materials Science and presented oral presentations. 2018-3-31 to 4-1: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited The Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and gave an introduction of Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng. 2018-3-13: In collaboration with Prof. Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China), Dan Li's paper "A Thieno[3,2-c]Isoquinolin-5(4H)-one Building Block for Efficient Thick-Film Solar Cells" was accepted by Adv. Energy Mater. Congratulations! 2018-3-11: In collaboration with Prof. Jiehua Liu (Hefei University of Technology), Xiangfeng Wei and Mengmeng Zhang's paper "Semitransparent CH3NH3PbI3 Films Achieved by Solvent Engineering for Annealing- and Electron Transport Layer-Free Planar Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by Solar RRL. Congratulations! 2018-3-5: In collaboration with Prof. Pingwu Du (USTC), Jian Guan and Jianhua Wu's paper "Synergistically Enhancing Visible Light Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production Activities of MoS2 and C60 via Hybridization Affording a van der Waals Heterostructure" was accepted by Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. Congratulations! 2018-2-25: Graduate student Mr. Xingcheng Li joined our group. Welcome! 2018-2-10: Tao Wei's paper "Blending Non-Group-IIIB Transition Metal and Rare-Earth Metal into a C80 Fullerene Cage with D5h Symmetry" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2018-2-3: The Annual Group Meeting of Lab. of Endohedrall Fullerenes was held successfully. All group members attended the meeting, presenting their annual summary work for the past year. Two members (Miss X. Zhu, Miss W. Hu) won the best-presentation prizes based on the votings of all participants. Besides, Prof. Shangfeng Yang awarded the annual best-behavior prizes to Mr. Mengmeng Zhang, Miss Weiran Zhou and Miss Wanpei Hu. After the meeting, our group got together for a dinner to celebrate the harvest of 2017 and the coming Chinese New Year of Dog. 2018-1-28: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Fei Jin's paper "Steering the Geometry of Butterfly-Shaped Dimetal Carbide Cluster within a Carbon Cage via Trifluoromethylation of Y2C2@C82(6)" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations! 2018-1-4: In collaboration with Dr. Wenfeng Zhang (Anhui Agricultural University), Zhiqiang Zhao's paper "Conductivity Enhancement of PEDOT:PSS Film via Sulfonic Acid Modification: Application as Transparent Electrode for ITO-free Polymer Solar Cells" was accepted by SCIENCE CHINA Chem. Congratulations! 2017-12-27: Author Profile of Shangfeng Yang was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2017-12-26: In collaboration with Prof. Yan Yu (USTC), Jian Guan's paper "Expanding Pore Sizes of ZIF-8-Derived Nitrogen-Doped Microporous Carbon via C60 Embedding: toward Improved Anode Performance for Lithium-Ion Battery" was accepted by Nanoscale. Congratulations! 2017-12-22: In collaboration with Prof. Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology), Weiran Zhou's paper "Phase Engineering of Perovskite Materials for High-efficiency Solar Cells: Rapid Conversion of CH3NH3PbI3 to Phase-pure CH3NH3PbCl3 via Hydrochloric Acid Vapor Annealing Post-treatment" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2017-11-23: Ph.D. candidates Miss Xianjun Zhu, Miss Weiran Zhou, and Mr. Pengcheng Zhou attended The 3rd Graduate English Symposium on Chemistry and Materials Science at USTC and presented oral presentations. 2017-11-14: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Fei Jin and Shangfeng Yang's paper "Experimental and Theoretical Approach to Variable Chlorination-Promoted Skeletal Transformations in Fullerenes: The Case of C102" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2017-11-12: Ph.D. candidate Mr. Fei Jin attended the HFNL Graduate Annual Meeting and presented oral presentations, and was awarded "the 1st Prize". 2017-11-10 to 11-12: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 2017 International Forum on Developments and Trends of New Materials held in Xi'an, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Fullerene Functional Materials: Synthesis and Applications". 2017-11-5: Mr. Jian Guan and Mr. Jieming Zhen passed their PhD thesis defences successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2017-10-21: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended InfoMat Workshop held in Beijing, China and presented a talk entitled "Functionalization of Fullerene Materials and Applications in Solar Cells". 2017-9-30: PhD candidates Miss Xianjun Zhu and Mr. Fei Jin were awarded "National Scholorship" (国家奖学金). Congratulations! 2017-9-29: Associate Professor Dr. Muqing Chen joined our group. Welcome! 2017-9-27: Alumnus Dr. Song Wang (PhD 2016) was awarded "the Best PhD Thesis of CAS". Dr. Shangfeng Yang was awarded "the Excellent PhD Supervisor of CAS". Congratulations! 2017-9-18 to 9-25: Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University, Russia) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Chlorination-promoted cage transformations in fullerenes" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2017-9-16: Our group organized a badminton match as a traditioanl group activity. All group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. The champions of the Women's, Men's and Mixed doubles are L. Jia/B. Li, J. Zhen/M. Zhang, and Y. Liu/R. Yuan, respectively. Congratulations! After the match, our group had a welcome dinner for the new graduates. <photos> 2017-9-11: In collaboration with Prof. Guan-Wu Wang (USTC), Mengmeng Zhang and Shangfeng Yang's paper "Cascade Radical Reaction of N-Sulfonyl-2-allylanilines with [60]Fullerene: Synthesis and Functionalization of (2-Indolinyl)methylated Hydrofullerenes" was accepted by Org. Lett. Congratulations! 2017-9-7: Pengcheng Zhou's paper "Nonconjugated Polymer Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) as an Efficient Interlayer Promoting Electron Transport for Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2017-9-6: Graduate students Miss Jianhua Wu, Miss Lingbo Jia, Mr. Yanbo Shang, Mr. Zhaozhong Huang joined our group. Welcome! 2017-8-29 to 8-31: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 7th International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, China 2017 (ChinaNANO 2017) held in Beijing, China and presented a talk entitled "Fullerene Functional Materials: Design, Synthesis and Applications in Energy Conversion". 2017-8-4: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited National Center for Nanoscience and Technology upon the invitation of Prof. Liming Ding. He gave an invited talk entitled "Fullerene Functional Materials toward Applications in Solar Cells". 2017-7-25: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Fei Jin's paper "Synthesis, Isolation and Trifluoromethylation of Two Isomers of C84-based Monometallic Cyanide Clusterfullerenes: Interplay between the Endohedral Cluster with the Exohedral Addend" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2017-7-11 to 7-15: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended TSRC Workshop on Carbon Nanotube Defects held in Telluride, Colorado, USA and presented an invited talk entitled "Introducing Heptagons into Fullerene Cages via Skeletal Transformation". 2017-6-24 to 6-27: Prof. Thomas Greber (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland) and Prof. Shangfeng Yang co-organized the Sino Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation (SSSTC) Workshop on Endohedral Single Molecule Magnets held in Villa Garbald, Castasegna, Switzerland. This workshop congregated 15 scientists between 27 and 57 years of age who work in 8 different countries, and the topic covered? the state of the art in the emerging field of endohedral single molecule magnetism. Shangfeng Yang chaired the Morning session and final “Quo vadis” round table session. 2017-6-23 to 6-27: PhD candidates Miss Xianjun Zhu, Mr. Fei Jin, Miss Yajuan Liu, Mr. Runnan Guan attended the 2nd International Symposium on Nanocarbons (ISNC2017) held in Wuhan, China and presented poster presentations. 2017-6-12: Shangfeng Yang, Tao Wei and Fei Jin's review paper "When metal clusters meet carbon cages: Endohedral clusterfullerenes" was accepted by Chem. Soc. Rev. Congratulations! 2017-6-6: Undergraduates Miss Yujing Wang, Mr. Panlong Li, Mr. Chenfei Yu, Mr. Zerui Li, Mr. Ruihan Yuan, and Mr. Haoyou Luo passed their Bachelor thesis defencs successfully. Congratulations! 2017-5-28 to 6-1: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 231th ECS Meeting held in New Orleans, USA and presented an invited talk entitled "Non-IPR Monometallic Clusterfullerenes Entrapping a Nearly Linear Metal Cyanide Cluster". He also chaired the Morning sessions as well as the poster session as the Lead Organizers of the symposium "B04 — Endofullerenes and Carbon Nanocapsules". 2017-5-27 to 5-28: PhD candidates Miss Qing Liu, Miss Weiran Zhou, Miss Dan Li attended the Fourth Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells & New Generation Solar Cells held in Beijing, China and presented poster presentations. 2017-5-26: Mr. Xiang Chen passed his PhD thesis defence successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2017-4-21: Graduate student Mr. Zhaozhong Huang joined our group. Welcome! 2017-4-14: Fupin Liu and Fei Jin's paper "Pyramidal TiTb2C Cluster Encapsulated within the Popular Ih(7)-C80 Fullerene" was accepted by Inorg. Chim. Acta. Congratulations! 2017-4-12: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Fei Jin's paper "New Isolated-Pentagon-Rule Isomers of Fullerene C98 Captured as Chloro Derivatives" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2017-3-29 to 4-1: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended China Photovoltaic Technology International Conference (CPTIC) 2017 held in Xi'an, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Application of Novel Fullerene Derivatives as Cathode Interfacial Layers of Polymer Solar Cells". He was awarded the “Best Presentation Award”. 2017-3-24: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Fei Jin's paper "Skeletal Transformation of a Classical Fullerene C88 into a Nonclassical Fullerene Chloride C84Cl30 Bearing Quaternary Sequentially Fused Pentagons" was accepted by J. Am. Chem.* Soc.* Congratulations! 2017-3-21: Xiang Chen's paper "A facile mechanochemical route to covalently bonded graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) and fullerene hybrid toward enhanced visible light photocatalytic hydrogen production" was accepted by Nanoscale. Congratulations! 2017-3-10: Graduate student Miss Jianhua Wu joined our group. Welcome! 2017-3-2: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Fei Jin's paper "Chloro Derivatives of Isomers of a Giant Fullerene C104: C104(234)Cl16/18, C104(812)Cl12/24, and C104(811)Cl28" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations! 2017-1-16: In collaboration with Profs. Hengxing Ji and Pingwu Du (Dept. of MSE, USTC), Xianjun Zhu's paper "Black Phosphorus Revisited: A Missing Metal-free Elemental Photocatalyst for Visible Light Hydrogen Evolution" was accepted by Adv. Mater. Congratulations! 2017-1-15: The Annual Group Meeting of Lab. of Endohedrall Fullerenes was held successfully. All group members attended the meeting, presenting their annual summary work for the past year. Three sub-groups summarized their annual progresses, and competed for the best-presentation prize based on the votings of all participants. Besides, Prof. Shangfeng Yang awarded the annual best-behavior prizes to Mr. Fei Jin and Miss Weiran Zhou. After the meeting, our group got together for a dinner to celebrate the harvest of 2016 and the coming Chinese New Year of Rooster. 2017-1-3: Dan Li's paper "Imidazole-Functionalized Fullerene as a Vertically Phase-Separated Cathode Interfacial Layer of Inverted Ternary Polymer Solar Cells" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2016-12-13: Weiran Zhou's paper "Successive surface engineering of TiO2 compact layer via dual modification of fullerene derivatives affording hysteresis-suppressed high-performance perovskite solar cells" was accepted by J. Mater. Chem. A. Congratulations! 2016-12-7 to 12-8: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended 2016 China International Carbon Materials Conference held in Shanghai, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Fullerene Materials: Endohedral and Exohedral Functionalization". 2016-12-3 to 12-4: Ph.D. candidates Miss Qing Liu, Mr. Fei Jin and Mr. Zhimin Fang attended the HFNL Graduate Annual Meeting and presented oral presentations. Mr. Fei Jin was awarded "the 2nd Prize". 2016-12-2: In collaboration with Profs. Su-Yuan Xie (Xiamen Univ., China), Alexey A. Popov (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany), and Thomas Greber (Universitaet Zürich, Switzerland), Fupin Liu and Song Wang's paper "Monometallic Clusterfullerene Single-Molecule Magnet Containing Strained Fused-Pentagon Stabilized by a Nearly Linear Metal Cyanide Cluster" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2016-12-1: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Fei Jin's paper "Trifluoromethyl Derivatives of Monometalic Cyanide Cluster Fullerene, YCN@C82(6)(CF3)16/18" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2016-11-28: Qiliang Wu's paper "Solution-Processable Ionic Liquid as an Independent or Modifying Electron Transport Layer for High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2016-11-26 to 11-27: Ph.D. candidates Mr. Xiang Chen and Mr. Jian Guan attended The 2nd Graduate English Symposium on Chemistry and Materials Science at USTC and presented oral presentations. 2016-11-11 to 11-13: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 2nd international conference on organic electronics (ICOOE 2016) held in Ningbo, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Application of Novel Fullerene Derivatives as Cathode Interfacial Layers of?Polymer Solar Cells". 2016-10-20 to 10-24: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 17th International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA 2016) held in Qingdao, China and presented a talk entitled "Fullerene Materials: Endohedral and Exohedral Functionalization". 2016-10-18: In collaboration with Profs. Su-Yuan Xie (Xiamen Univ., China), Alexey A. Popov (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany), and Thomas Greber (Universitaet Zürich, Switzerland), Fupin Liu's paper "Triangular Monometallic Cyanide Cluster Entrapped in Carbon Cage with Geometry-Dependent Molecular Magnetism" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations! 2016-10-13: Undergraduate student Mr. Zerui Li (Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng.) joined our group. Welcome! 2016-10-12: In collaboration with Prof. Qiquan Qiao (South Dakota State Univ.), Shangfeng Yang's paper "Increased Efficiency for Perovskite Photovoltaics via Doping the PbI2 Layer" was accepted by J. Phys. Chem. C. Congratulations! 2016-10-6: Qing Liu and Jieming Zhen's paper "Efficiency Enhancement of Polymer Solar Cells by Applying an Alcohol-Soluble Fullerene Aminoethanol Derivative as a Cathode Buffer Layer" was accepted by Org. Electron. Congratulations! 2016-9-27: Alumnus Dr. Wei Tao (PhD 2015) was awarded "the Best PhD Thesis of CAS". Dr. Shangfeng Yang was awarded "the Excellent PhD Supervisor of CAS". Congratulations! 2016-9-24: Our group organized a badminton match as a traditioanl group activity. All group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. The champions of the Women's, Men's and Mixed doubles are Y. Liu/B. Li, J. Zhen/W. Huang, and B. Li, respectively. Congratulations! After the match, our group had a welcome lunch for the new graduates. <photos> 2016-9-3: Undergraduate student Mr. Ziyang Shen (Dept. of Chem. Phys.) joined our group. Welcome! 2016-9-1: Undergraduate student Mr. Weiqiang Huang (Dept. of Polymer Sci. & Eng.) joined our group. Welcome! 2016-8-21 to 8-24: Prof. Shangfeng Yang, PhD candidates Mr. Xiang Chen, Mr. Jieming Zhen, Miss Qing Liu, Miss Weiran Zhou attended the 15th National Conference on Solar Energy Photochemistry and Photocatalysis held in Jinan, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Improving the Performance of Polymer Solar Cells via Incorporation of Functionalized 2D Materials". Mr. Xiang Chen and Mr. Jieming Zhen presented oral talks, Miss Qing Liu and Miss Weiran Zhou made poster presentations. 2016-8-19 to 8-20: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended Symposium on New Energy Materiasl and Devices held in Chengdu, China. 2016-8-2: PhD candidate Miss Bairu Li joined our group. Welcome! 2016-8-1: Graduate student Miss Yajuan Liu joined our group. Welcome! 2016-7-19: On behalf of the department, Prof. Shangfeng Yang gave a presentation introducing Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering for the students participating the Summer Camp, who visited our lab after the colloqium. 2016-7-4: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited University of Electronic Science and Technology of China upon the invitation of Prof. Yuanfu Chen. He gave an invited talk entitled "Novel Fullerene Materials with Applications in Solar Cells". 2016-7-2: Graduate student Miss Wanpei Hu joined our group. Welcome! 2016-7-1: Undergraduate student Miss Wen Zhang (Dept. of Chemistry) joined our group. Welcome! 2016-6-23: Our group got together for a farewell dinner for graduates (Dr. Song Wang, Dr. Qiliang Wu). We wish them all the best and much success on the future career! 2016-6-11 to 6-14: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended Nature Conference on Materials for Energy 2016 held in Wuhan, China and presented a poster entitled "Improving the Performance of Polymer Solar Cells via Incorporation of Functionalized Graphene and Analogous 2D Materials". 2016-6-7: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Song Wang's paper "New Giant Fullerenes Identified as Chloro Derivatives: Isolated-Pentagon-Rule C108(1771)Cl12 and C106(1155)Cl24 as well as Non-classical C104Cl24" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2016-6-4 to 6-6: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology upon the invitations of Prof. Qian Miao and Prof. Shihe Yang, respecitvely. He gave an invited talk entitled "Functionalization of Fullerenes toward Applications in Solar Cells". 2016-6-3: Undergraduates Mr. Xiao Shao and Mr. Zhiyu Huang passed the Bachelor thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! They will take further graduate study (Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIC-CAS); UT-Dallas, USA). We wish both of them much success on the graduate study! 2016-6-2: Qiliang Wu's paper "Acetate Salts as Non-Halogen Additives to Improve Perovskite Film Morphology for High-Efficiency Solar Cells" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2016-5-29 to 6-3: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 229th ECS Meeting held in San Diego, USA and presented an invited talk entitled "Entrapping a Group-VB Transition Metal, Vanadium, within an Endohedral Metallofullerene". He also chaired the two afternoon sessions as well as the poster session as the Lead Organizers of the symposium "B04 — Endofullerenes and Carbon Nanocapsules". 2016-5-28: Mr. Qiliang Wu and Mr. Song Wang passed their PhD thesis defences successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2016-5-21 to 5-22: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the Third Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells & New Generation Solar Cells held in Beijing, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Improving the Performance of Polymer Solar Cells via Incorporation of Functionalized Graphene and Analogous 2D Materials". 2016-4-28: Mr. Song Wang was awarded the "The CAS President Excellent Scholarship". Congratulations! 2016-4-20: Jieming Zhen and Qing Liu's paper "Ethanolamine-Functionalized Fullerene as an Efficient Electron Transport Layer for High-Efficiency Inverted Polymer Solar Cells" was accepted by J. Mater.Chem. A. Congratulations! 2016-3-10 to 3-13: Prof. Takeshi Akasaka (TARA Center, University of Tsukuba) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "New Vistas in the Fullerene World" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2016-3-10: In collaboration with Prof. Su-Yuan Xie (Xiamen Univ.) and Prof. Qunxiang Li (USTC), Song Wang's paper "Singly Bonded Monoadduct Rather than Methanofullerene: Manipulating Simultaneously the Reactivity and Addition Pattern of Metal Nitride Clusterfullerene via One Endohedral Metal Atom Substitution" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations! 2016-2-22: Undergraduate students Mr. Runnan Guan (Lanzhou Univ.) and Mr. Zhiyu Huang (School of Physics) joined our group. Welcome! 2016-2-5: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Song Wang's paper "The first experimentally confirmed isolated pentagon rule (IPR) isomers of higher fullerene C98 captured as chlorides, C98(248)Cl22 and C98(116)Cl20" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations! 2016-1-23: The Annual Group Meeting of Lab. of Endohedrall Fullerenes was held successfully. All group members attended the meeting, presenting their annual summary work for the past year. Two members (Mr. J. M. Zhen, Miss D. Li) won the best-presentation prizes based on the votings of all participants. Besides, Prof. Shangfeng Yang awarded the annual best-behavior prize to Miss Q. Liu. After the meeting, our group got together for a dinner to celebrate the harvest of 2015 and the coming Chinese New Year of Monkey. 2016-1-13: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Song Wang's paper "New Isolated-Pentagon-Rule and Skeletally Transformed Isomers of C100 Fullerene Identified by Structure Elucidation of Chlorides" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2016-1-11: Xiang Chen's paper "Incorporating Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-C3N4) Quantum Dots into Bulk-Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells Leads to Efficiency Enhancement" was accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. Congratulations! 2015-12-15 to 12-20: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended The 2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM 2015) held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Prof. Yang presented an invited talk entitled "Monometallic cyanide clusterfullerene: a novel form of endohedral fullerenes". 2015-12-8: In collaboration with Prof. Changfei Zhu (USTC), Qiliang Wu's paper "Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 as a Low Cost Inorganic Hole Transporting Material for High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2015-12-8: In collaboration with Profs. Su-Yuan Xie (Xiamen Univ., China), Xing Lu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), and Qunxiang Li (USTC), Tao Wei's paper "Entrapping a Group-VB Transition Metal, Vanadium, within an Endohedral Metallofullerene: VxSc3-xN@Ih-C80 (x=1, 2)" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations! 2015-11-28: Ph.D. candidates Mr. Song Wang and Mr. Qiliang Wu attended The 1st Graduate English Symposium on Chemistry and Materials Science at USTC and presented oral presentations. Mr. Jieming Zhen and Miss Qing Liu attended the HFNL Graduate Annual Meeting. Miss Qing Liu was awarded "the 2nd Prize" with the talk entitled "Alcohol-amine groups functionalized fullerene derivatives as electron transport layer for high performance PSCs". 2015-11-15: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended The Inaugural Synthetic Diamond International Synergy and Innovation Development Forum held in Zhengzhou, China. Prof. Yang presented an invited talk entitled "Exploring novel fullerenes". 2015-10-28 to 10-30: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended 2015' International Graphene Innovation Conference held in Qingdao, China. Prof. Yang presented an invited talk entitled "Improving the Performance of Polymer Solar Cells via Incorporation of Functionalized Graphene and Analogous 2D Materials". 2015-10-28: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Song Wang's paper "Unusual Chlorination Patterns of Three IPR Isomers of C88 Fullerene in C88(7)Cl12/24, C88(17)Cl22, and C88(33)Cl12/14" was accepted by Chem. Asian J. Congratulations! 2015-10-19: Prof. Qian Miao (the Chinese University of Hong Kong) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "From Fused-ring Conjugated Molecules to Electronic Materials " and had fruitful discussions with us. 2015-10-11: Our group organized a badminton match. All group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. The champions of the Men's double and Mixed double are J. Guan/J. Zhen and Q. Liu/H. Luo, respectively. Congratulations! After the match, our group had a welcome lunch for the new graduates. <photos> 2015-9-22: Mr. Song Wang (PhD candidate) was awarded "National Scholorship" (国家奖学金). Congratulations! 2015-9-21: Undergraduate student Miss Yujing Wang joined our group. Welcome! 2015-9-18 to 9-20: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 2015 International Forum on Developments and Trends of New Materials held in Shanghai, China. Prof. Yang presented an invited talk entitled "Novel Fullerene Materials" and was awarded "Excellent Presentation Award" for "Excellent Young Scientist Sub-forum". 2015-9-17: Zhiqiang Zhao's paper "Zwitterion Doping of PEDOT:PSS Hole Transport Layer Affording Efficiency Enhancement in Polymer Solar Cells" was accepted by Org. Electron. Congratulations! 2015-9-12 to 9-13: Prof. Shangfeng Yang chaired "Symposium on the Recent State and Future of Fullerene Materials" in Hefei successfully. This symposium was jointly organized by School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, and iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials). This symposium attracted more than 170 participants, including 5 academicians (Profs. Daoben Zhu, Yicheng Wu, Zhongfan Liu, Yongfang Li, Yi Xie). We thank all of the participants for the support! <news-USTC><news-SCMS><news-KeyLab><news-MSE> 2015-9-6: Graduate students Ms. Xiangfeng Wei, Mr. Qishi Liu, Mr. Zhimin Fang, Mr. Mengmeng Zhang joined our group. Welcome! 2015-8-14: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "Chlorination-promoted Skeletal Cage Transformations of C88 Fullerene by C2 Losses and a Stone-Wales C–C Bond Rotation" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations! 2015-7-21 to 7-24: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 14th Annual National Conference on Applied Chemistry held in Nanchang, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Efficiency Enhancment of Polymer Solar Cells via Incorporation of Small-molecule Organic Materials as Cathode Buffer Layers". 2015-7-15: Undergraduate student Mr. Chenfei Yu joined our group. Welcome! 2015-7-13: Undergraduate student Mr. Haoyou Luo joined our group. Welcome! 2015-6-29 to 7-3: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 12th International Conference Advanced Carbon NanoStructures (ACNS'2015) held in St. Petersberg, Russia. Prof. Yang presented a plenary talk entitled "Endohedral and Exohedral Functionalization of Fullerenes". 2015-6-23: Undergraduate student Miss Congxue Yao joined our group. Welcome! 2015-6-19: Our group got together for a farewell dinner for graduates (Mr. Zhiqiang Zhao, Mr. Tao Wei, Mr. Fei Xia). We wish them all the best and much success on the future career! 2015-6-16: Undergraduate student Mr. Ziwen Mei joined our group. Welcome! 2015-6-11: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited South China University of Technology and gave a talk "Applications of Endohedral and Exohedral Fullerenes in Organic Solar Cells" upon the invitation of Prof. Hongbin Wu. 2015-6-9: Undergraduate student Mr. Yang Chen joined our group. Welcome! 2015-6-8: Fei Xia's paper "Efficiency enhancement of inverted structure perovskite solar cells via oleamide doping of PCBM electron transport layer" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2015-6-4: Undergraduates Miss Yawei Liu and Mr. Sizhe Li passed the Bachelor thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! Miss Yawei Liu will take further graduate study in Emory University, Mr. Sizhe Li will join an enterprise in Zhengzhou. We wish them all the best! 2015-6-3: Prof. Wenhua Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Novel Solar Cell: Materials and Devices" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2015-6-2: Mr. Zhiqiang Zhao and Mr. Tao Wei passed their PhD thesis defences successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2015-5-24 to 5-28: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 227th ECS Meeting held in Chicago, USA and presented an invited talk entitled "An Expanded Family of Dysprosium-Scandium Mixed-Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes". He also chaired the morning and afternoon sessions as well as the poster session as one of the co-organizers of the symposium "M5 — Endofullerenes and Carbon Nanocapsules". 2015-5-24: Undergraduate student Mr. Changsong Cui joined our group. Welcome! 2015-5-22: Graduate Mr. Fei Xia passed his Master thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! 2015-5-21: Undergraduate student Mr. Hechuan He joined our group. Welcome! 2015-5-18: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Dalian University of Technology and gave a talk "Endohedral and Exohedral Functionalization of Fullerenes toward Applications in Energy Conversion " upon the invitation of Prof. Jieshan Qiu. 2015-5-15 to 5-16: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited two middle schools in SanMing, Fujian (SanMing No. 1 Middle School and No. 2 Middle School) and presented a general science letcure entitled "Energy Chemistry". 2015-5-13: Undergraduate student Mr. Xiao Shao joined our group. Welcome! 2015-4-18 to 4-19: Ph.D. candidates Mr. Tao Wei and Mr. Zhiqiang Zhao attended the 4rd USTC Graduate Annual Meeting of Chemistry and presented oral presentations. Mr. Tao Wei was awarded "the best Judges award" with the talk entitled "Capturing the Long-Sought Small-Bandgap Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C82 with Low Kinetic Stability". Congratulations! 2015-4-14: Undergraduate student Mr. Yi Yang joined our group. Welcome! 2015-3-21: Undergraduates Miss Yawei Liu, Mr. Xiaohan Wu received PhD offers from Emory University and UT-Austin, respectively. Congratulations! 2015-3-20: Prof. Charles Surya (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) visited our laboratory and our Department. Prof. Shangfeng Yang orgaized a colloqium and Prof. Surya gave a presentation entitled "Development and Prospects of Perovskite Solar Cells" and had fruitful discussions with us <news-MSE>. 2015-2-7: In collaboration with Prof. Su-Yuan Xie (Xiamen Univ., China), Tao Wei's paper "Capturing the Long-Sought Small-Bandgap Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C82 with Low Kinetic Stability" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc..Congratulations!<news-CAS><news-USTC><news-Materials Views China> 2015-2-4: The Annual Group Meeting of Lab. of Endohedrall Fullerenes was held successfully. All graduates and some undergraduates attended the meeting with snacks, joys, and fruitful discussions <photos>. Three sub-groups summarized their annual progresses, and competed for the best-presentation prize based on the votings of all participants. Besides, Prof. Shangfeng Yang awarded the annual best-behavior prize to Mr. Jian Guan. After the meeting, our group got together for a dinner to celebrate the harvest of 2014 and the coming Chinese New Year of Sheep. 2015-1-31 to 2-2: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 1st International Workshop on Engineering and Applications of Nanocarbon Materials held in Jinan, China, and presented a talk entitled "Endohedral and Exohedral Functionalization of Fullerenes". 2015-1-26: In collaboration with Dr. Alexey A. Popov (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden,, Germany), Tao Wei's paper "An Expanded Family of Dysprosium-Scandium Mixed-Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: The Role of Lanthanide Metal on the Carbon Cage Size Distribution" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations! 2015-1-26: Undergraduate student Mr. Sizhe Li joined our group. Welcome! 2015-1-15: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Tao Wei's paper "Two successive C2 losses from C86 fullerene upon chlorination with the formation of non-classical C84Cl30 and C82Cl30" was accepted by Chem. Asian J. Congratulations! 2014-12-26: Undergraduate student Mr. Panlong Li joined our group. Welcome! 2014-12-23: Zhiqiang Zhao's paper "Improving Hole Transport Property of PEDOT:PSS in Polymer Solar Cells via Copper(II) Bromide Salt Doping" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2014-12-19: Prof. Yongsheng Chen (Nankai Univ., China) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2014-11-24: Jian Guan's paper "Directly bonded hybrid of graphene nanoplatelets and fullerene: facile solid-state mechanochemical synthesis and application as carbon-based electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction" was accepted by J. Mater. Chem. A. Congratulations! 2014-11-1: Mr. Fupin Liu passed his PhD thesis defences successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2014-10-31: Prof. Chunru Wang (Vice Director of the Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Fundamental and Application Studies of Metallofullerenes" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2014-10-21 to 10-24: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended The 4th International Symposium on Solar Fuels and Solar Cells held in Dalian, China, and presented a talk entitled "Incorporation of Small-molecule Organic Materials as Cathode Buffer Layers in Polymer Solar Cells". 2014-10-9: In collaboration with Dr. Minghua Li (Hefei University), Zhixiong Liu's paper "Noncovalently grafting sulfonic acid onto graphene oxide toward improved hole transport in polymer solar cells" was accepted by RSC Adv. Congratulations! 2014-9-27: Our group held a badminton match. All group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. The champions of the Men's double and Mixed double are J. Guan/F. Xia and X. Zhu/J. Guan, respectively. Congratulations! After the match, our group had a welcome dinner for the new graduates. <photos> 2014-9-24: Mr. Tao Wei (PhD candidate) was awarded "National Scholorship" (国家奖学金). Congratulations! 2014-9-19 to 9-20: Prof. Shangfeng Yang and 4 PhD candidates (Mr. Zhiqiang Zhao, Mr. Song Wang, Mr. Jian Guan, and Mr. Xiang Chen) attended the 1st International Symposium on Energy Conversion Materials and Devices (ECMD2014) held in Hefei, China. Prof. Yang acted as the Secretary-General of ECMD2014 being responsible for organization, and presented an invited talk entitled "Endohedral and Exohedral Functionalization of Fullerenes toward Applications in Energy Conversion". Mr. Zhiqiang Zhao, Mr. Song Wang, Mr. Jian Guan, and Mr. Xiang Chen presented posters. Mr. Jian Guan was awarded the 1st Prize of "Best Student Poster Awards" (1 out of 45 candidates). 2014-9-15: In collaboration with Prof. Yalin Lu (USTC) and Profs. Songyuan Dai, Jun Zhu (Institute of Plasma Physics, CAS), Wenfeng Zhang's paper "Isopropanol-treated PEDOT:PSS as electron transport layer in polymer solar cells" was accepted by Org. Electron. Congratulations! 2014-9-10: Prof. Liwei Chen (Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Energetic Nanotechnology: Materials and Interfaces" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2014-9-1:Graduate student Mr. Fei Jin joined our group. Welcome! 2014-8-17 to 8-19: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 13th Conference on Solid State Chemistry and Inorganic Synthesis held in Changchun, China, and presented a talk entitled "Endohedral and Exohedral Functionalization of Fullerenes". 2014-8-4 to 8-7: Prof. Shangfeng Yang, Mr. Fupin Liu, Mr. Tao Wei, Mr. Zhiqiang Zhao, Mr. Song Wang, Mr. Qiliang Wu, and Mr. Jieming Zhen attended the 29th Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) Congress held in Beijing China. Prof. Yang presented a talk entitled "Endohedral and Exohedral Functionalization of Fullerenes". Mr. Fupin Liu, Mr. Tao Wei, Mr. Zhiqiang Zhao and Mr. Song Wang all presented oral talks. 2014-7-31: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "Chlorination of two isomers of C86 fullerene. Molecular structures of C86(16)Cl16 and C86(17)Cl18,20,22" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations! 2014-7-27 to 7-30: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 14th National Conference on Solar Energy Photochemistry and Photocatalysis held in Harbin, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Applications of Small-molecule Organic Materials as Cathode Buffer Layers in Polymer Solar Cells". 2014-7-26: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "Chlorinated fullerenes, IPR C96Cl20 and non-classical C94Cl28 and C92Cl32, evidence the existence of three new isomers of C96 nos. 175, 114, and 80" was accepted by Chem. Asian J. Congratulations! 2014-7-25: Graduate students Miss Dan Li, Miss Weiran Zhou joined our group. Welcome! 2014-7-15: Prof. Qiquan Qiao (Center for Advanced Photovoltaics, South Dakota State University, USA) gave a presentation entitled "Engineering of active layer nanomorphology for improved charge transport in polymer solar cells" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2014-7-7: On behalf of the department, Prof. Shangfeng Yang gave a presentation introducing Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering for the students participating the Summer Camp, who visited our lab after the colloqium. 2014-6-23: Prof. Qiquan Qiao (Center for Advanced Photovoltaics, South Dakota State University, USA) visited our laboratory and started a four-weeks english course entitled "Organic solar cell materials and devices", which is supported by the oversea expert project run by Teaching Affairs Office, USTC. 2014-6-20: Our group got together for a farewell dinner for graduates (Miss Xuemei Zhao, Miss Lixin Xie) and undergraduates (Mr. Minxiang Zeng, Mr. Zhixiang Liu). We wish them all the best and much success on the future career or graduate study! 2014-6-10: Undergraduates Mr. Minxiang Zeng and Mr. Zhixiang Liu passed the Bachelor thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! They will take further graduate study (University of Texas-Austin, USA; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)). We wish both of them much success on the graduate study! 2014-6-5: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Tao Wei's paper "New trifluoromethylated derivatives of metal nitride clusterfullerenes: Sc3N@Ih-C80(CF3)14 and Sc3N@D5h-C80(CF3)16" was accepted by Chem. Asian J. Congratulations! 2014-6-4: Prof. Liwei Chen (Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2014-6-3: Graduates Miss Xuemei Zhao and Lixin Xie passed their Master thesis defences successfully. Congratulations! 2014-5-25: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the First Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells & New Generation Solar Cells held in Beijing, China and presented an invited talk entitled "High-Efficiency ITO-Free Polymer Solar Cells Based on PEDOT:PSS/Surfactant Bilayer Transparent Anodes". 2014-5-20: Lixin Xie's paper "Rhodanine-containing fullerene derivative as a new acceptor in polymer solar cells with enhanced light absorption" was accepted by The Journal of University of Science and Technology of China.. Congratulations! 2014-5-18 to 5-19: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Clemson University, USA upon the invitation of Prof. Ya-Ping Sun and had a fruitful discussion with Prof. Sun. 2014-5-16 to 5-17: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited University of Maryland, USA upon the invitation of Prof. Yuhuang Wang. He attended "Symposium on Energy Materials" and gave an invited talk "Endohedral and Exohedral Functionalization of Fullerenes toward Applications in Energy Conversion". 2014-5-11 to 5-15: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 225th ECS Meeting held in Orlando, USA and presented an invited talk entitled "Novel Terbium-based Endohedral Clusterfullerenes: Synthesis, Isolation and Characterization". He also chaired the afternoon session as one of the co-organizers of the symposium "M5 — Endofullerenes and Carbon Nanocapsules". 2014-4-22: Ying Xu and Xiang Chen's paper "Ultrasonication-Switched Preparation of Dice- and Cubic-Shaped Fullerene Crystals and Their Applications as Catalyst Supports for Methanol Oxidation" was accepted by Mater. Horiz. Congratulations! 2014-4-21: Fupin Liu's paper "Putting a Terbium-Monometallic Cyanide Cluster into the C82 Fullerene Cage: TbCN@C2(5)-C82" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2014-4-12 to 4-13: Ph.D. candidates Mr. Fupin Liu, Mr. Tao Wei, Mr. Song Wang and Mr. Xiang Chen attended the 3rd USTC Graduate Annual Meeting of Chemistry and presented oral presentations. Mr. Fupin Liu was awarded "the best Judges award" with the talk entitled "Putting a Terbium-Monometallic cyanide Cluster into the C82 Fullerene Cage: TbCN@C82(5)-C82". Congratulations! 2014-3-31: Edited by Shangfeng Yang and Chun-Ru Wang, the book entitled "Endohedral Fullerenes: From Fundamentals to Applications" (434 pages) was published by World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore. 2014-3-6: Dr. Taishan Wang (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2014-3-1: Undergraduates Mr. Minxiang Zeng and Mr. Zhixiong Liu received PhD offers from University of Oxford and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), respectively. Congratulations! 2014-2-27: Xuemei Zhao's paper "Application of Biuret, Dicyandiamide and Urea as New Cathode Buffer Layers of Polymer Solar Cells: Efficiency Enhanced by the Amino Group" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2014-2-24: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Song Wang's paper "The most stable isomers of giant fullerenes C102 and C104 captured as chlorides, C102(603)Cl18/20 and C104(234)Cl16/18/20/22" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations! 2014-1-18: The Annual Group Meeting of Lab. of Endohedral Fullerenes was held successfully. All of group members attended the meeting, presenting their annual summary work for the past year. Two members (Mr. F. P. Liu, Mr. Z. Q. Zhao) won the best-presentation prizes based on the votings of all participants. 2014-1-11: Miss Xuemei Zhao (MSc candidate) attended the seminar of the USTC "Design and Modulation of Defects and Energy Conversion Materials" Innovation Team and gave an oral presentation. 2013-12-27: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Song Wang's paper "Chlorination of IPR C100 Fullerene Affords Unconventional C96Cl20 with Non-classical Cage Containing Three Heptagons" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2013-12-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Soochow University and gave a talk "Exploring Novel Structures of Endohedral Fullerenes" upon the invitation of Prof. Lai Feng. 2013-12-2: Profs. Xing Lu and Tianyou Zhai (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) visited our laboratory. They gave two presentations entitled "Structural determination and chemical functionalization of unconventional endohedral metallofullerenes" and "Photoelectric Properties and Applications of One-Dimentional Nanomaterials" respectively and had fruitful discussions with us. 2013-11-26: Prof. Luis Echegoyen (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Endohedral Fullerenes: Size, Shape and Electronic Complementarity" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2013-11-21: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "Cage shrinkage of fullerene via a C2 loss: from IPR C90(28)Cl24 to non-classical, heptagon containing C88Cl22/24" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2013-11-13 to 11-16: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 1st UNIST-HCPST (USTC, CASHIPS) Joint Workshop on Nanomaterials and Their Applications to Energy Conversion and Storage held in Ulsan, Korea and presented an invited talk entitled "Endohedral Fullerenes: Hybridization of Metals and Fullerenes". 2013-11-10: Miss Xuemei Zhao (MSc candidate) attended the 7th HFNL Graduate Forum held in Hefei, China and presented a talk entitled "Small Organic Molecules Used As New Cathode Buffer Layers for Polymer Solar Cells with PCE Enhancements" 2013-11-6 to 11-8: Prof. Shangfeng Yang, Mr. Fupin Liu, Mr. Tao Wei, and Mr. Song Wang (PhD candidates) attended Workshop on Emerging Carbon Materials held in Wuhan, China. Prof. Yang presented an invited talk entitled "Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes Encaging Metal Clusters" and Mr. Liu presented a talk entitled "Novel Tb-based Endohedral Fullerenes: Synthesis, Isolation and Characterization". 2013-10-31 to 11-3: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 3rd USTC-PolyU-SICCAS Joint Workshop on Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion held in Shanghai, China and presented an invited talk entitled "High-Efficiency ITO-Free Polymer Solar Cells Based on PEDOT:PSS/Surfactant Bilayer Transparent Anodes". 2013-10-24 to 10-27: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 473rd Xiangshan Meeting on Structures and Functions: Cluster Chemistry held in Xiamen, China. 2013-10-16: Undergraduate student Mr. Xiaohan Wu joined our group. Welcome! 2013-10-14: Mr. Fupin Liu (PhD candidate) was awarded "QiuShi Scholorship" (求是奖). Congratulations! 2013-9-30: Shangfeng Yang and Chuanbao Chen's paper "Bingel-Hirsch monoadducts of TiSc2N@Ih-C80 versus Sc3N@Ih-C80: Reactivity improvement via internal metal atom substitution" was accepted by Chem. Commun. Congratulations! 2013-9-28: Our group had a welcome lunch for the new graduates. 2013-9-12: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "First Isomers of Pristine C104 Fullerene Structurally Confirmed as Chlorides, C104(258)Cl16 and C104(812)Cl24" was accepted by Chem. Asain J. as a VIP paper. Congratulations! 2013-9-4: Undergraduate Jianhe Guo's paper "Single-Crystalline C60 Microplates: Preparation, Characterization, and Application as Catalyst Supports for Methanol Oxidation" was accepted by Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures. Congratulations! 2013-8-27: In collaboration with Prof. Qiquan Qiao (South Dakota State University, USA), Shangfeng Yang's review paper "Triple Junction Polymer Solar Cells" was accepted by Energy Envir. Sci. Congratulations! 2013-8-19 to 8-23: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 15th Asian Chemical Congress held in Singapore and presented an invited talk entitled "Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes: Putting Metal Clusters into Fullerenes". 2013-7-28 to 7-31: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 7th National Conference on Coordination Chemistry held in Beijing, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes". 2013-7-21: Graduate student Mr. Pengcheng Zhou joined our group. Welcome! 2013-7-15: Graduate students Mr. Qiliang Wu (PhD candidate), Miss Xianjun Zhu, Miss Qing Liu and undergraduate student Miss Yawei Liu (School for the Gifted Young) joined our group. Welcome! 2013-7-11: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang, Tao Wei and Song Wang's paper "The first structural confirmation of a C102 fullerene as C102Cl20 containing a non-IPR carbon cage" was accepted by Chem. Commun. Congratulations! 2013-7-9: Students participating the Summer Camp visited our lab. 2013-7-6 to 7-9: Upon the invitation of Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov, Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Moscow State University, Russia. 2013-7-1 to 7-5: Prof. Shangfeng Yang, Mr. Fupin Liu and Mr. Tao Wei (both are PhD candidates) attended the 11th International Conference Advanced Carbon NanoStructures (ACNS'2013) held in St. Petersberg, Russia. Prof. Yang presented a talk entitled "Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes: Putting metal clusters into fullerenes". Mr. Liu and Mr. Wei presented a poster entitled "A series of inorganic solid nitrogen sources for the synthesis of metal nitride clusterfullerenes: the dependence of production yield on the oxidation states of nitrogen and counter ion" and "Putting a non-group-III metal into fullerene cage via metal nitride formation", respectively. 2013-6-29: Undergraduates Mr. Yukun Sun (Dept. of Physics) joined our group. Welcome! 2013-6-22: Our group got together for a farewell dinner for graduates (Dr. Xu Ying, Dr. Wenfeng Zhang, Miss Shuxuan Qu) and undergraduates (Mr. Boxue Chen, Mr. Xinghao Zhou, Mr. Fangda Xu, Miss Xi Chen, Miss Mengyuan Chen, Mr. Dongyuan Yang, Mr. Yang Gao, Mr. Kai Zhang). We wish them all the best and much success on the future career or graduate study! 2013-6-16 to 6-21: Chaired by Prof. Shangfeng Yang, the 1st International Symposium on Nanocarbons (ISNC2013) was held in Hefei successfully. ISNC2013 was jointly sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Hefei Center for Physical Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, organized by University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion. Among the participants for this symposium, over 10 foreign guests, including Professors Wolfgang Kr?tschmer, Dirk Guldi, Maurizio Prato, Rodney Ruoff, Takeshi Akasaka, Sergey I. Troyanov, Steven Stevenson, Yuhuang Wang, and Alexey A. Popov, are from five countries, including Germany, The United States, Italy, Russia and Japan. Other more than 90 participants are from China. Besides, this symposium attracted more than 60 graduate and undergraduate students of USTC. We thank all of the participants for the support! <news-CAS><new-USTC><new-Nanoscale><new-SCMS><new-KeyLab><new-MSE> 2013-6-9: Undergraduates Mr. Boxue Chen, Mr. Xinghao Zhou, Mr. Fangda Xu, Miss Xi Chen, Miss Mengyuan Chen, Mr. Dongyuan Yang, Mr. Yang Gao, Mr. Kai Zhang passed the Bachelor thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! Most of them will take further graduate study (California Institute of Technology (Caltech); University of Texas, Austin; State Univ. of New York (SUNY)-Stony Brook; Boston University; City University of Hong Kong; Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences). We wish all of them much success on the graduate study! 2013-6-9: “第一届国际纳米碳材料学术研讨会”最终会议日程已上传，请自行通过会议网站下载。 2013-6-5: “第一届国际纳米碳材料学术研讨会”会议论文投稿系统即日起开放，欢迎大家踊跃投稿（详见会议网站）。 2013-6-2: Miss Ying Xu and Mr. Wenfeng Zhang passed their PhD thesis defences successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2013-5-31: “第一届国际纳米碳材料学术研讨会”第二轮通知发布。 2013-5-26: Graduates Miss Shuxuan Qu passed the Master thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! 2013-5-21: 应广大参会人员要求，“第一届国际纳米碳材料学术研讨会”回执（含摘要）、提前注册截止日期延长至5月27号。 2013-5-12 to 5-16: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 223rd ECS Meeting held in Toronto, Canada and presented an invited talk entitled "An Improbable Monometallic Cluster Entrapped in a Popular Fullerene Cage: YCN@Cs(6)-C82". 2013-5-8: Profs. Lai Feng and Ning Chen (Soochow University, China) visited our laboratory. They gave two presentations entitled "Endohedral Fullerenes: Structures, Functionalizations and Properties", "Novel Endohedral Sulfide Clusterfullerenes" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2013-4-22: Fupin Liu's paper "A Bent Tb2C2 Cluster Encaged in a Cs(6)-C82 Cage: Synthesis, Isolation and X-ray Crystallographic Study" was accepted by Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures. Congratulations! 2013-4-19: Undergraduate Mr. Xinghao Zhou was conferred "GuoMoRuo Scholorship" (郭沫若奖, the highest honor for USTC undergraduates). Meanwhile, he received an offer from California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Congratulations! 2013-4-16: Shuxuan Qu's paper "Noncovalent Functionalization of Graphene Attaching [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric Acid Methyl Ester (PCBM) and Application as Electron Extraction Layer of Polymer Solar Cells" was accepted by ACS Nano. Congratulations! 2013-4-13 to 4-14: Prof. Shangfeng Yang, Ph.D. candidates Mr. Wenfeng Zhang, Mr. Fupin Liu, Mr. Tao Wei and Mr. Zhiqiang Zhao attended the 2nd USTC Graduate Annual Meeting of Chemistry and presented oral presentations. Prof. Shangfeng Yang presented a plenary talk entitled "Discovery of Novel-structure Endohedral Fullerenes". Mr. Tao Wei was awarded "the best PPT award" and "the second prize", Wenfeng Zhang and Fupin Liu were awarded with "the third prize", and Zhiqiang Zhao was honored with "the honorable mention". Congratulations! 2013-4-11: Our recent paper "An Improbable Monometal Cluster Entrapped in a Fullerene Cage: YCN@C82" published in Sci. Rep. (Nature Publishing Group) was highlighted in Research Progress of Chinese Academy of Sciences.<news-CAS> 2013-4-9: In collaboration with Prof. Hongbin Wu (South China University of Technology, China), Wenfeng Zhang's paper "High-Efficiency ITO-Free Polymer Solar Cells Using Highly Conductive PEDOT:PSS/Surfactant Bilayer Transparent Anodes" was accepted by Energy Envir. Sci. Congratulations! 2013-3-30: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "Trifluoromethyl and Chloro Derivatives of a Higher Fullerene D2-C80 (2): C80(CF3)12 and C80Cl28" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2013-3-22: Our recent paper "An Improbable Monometal Cluster Entrapped in a Fullerene Cage: YCN@C82" published in Sci. Rep. (Nature Publishing Group) was highlighted in USTC News Center.<news> <news-English> 2013-3-17: In collaboration with Prof. Yalin Lu (USTC), the paper of Boxue Chen (undergraduate) entitled "Surface Plasmon Enhancement of Polymer Solar Cells by Penetrating Au/SiO2 Core/Shell Nanoparticles into All Organic Layers" was accepted by Nano Energy. Congratulations! 2013-3-6: In collaboration with Prof. Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden), Shangfeng Yang's review paper "Endohedral Fullerenes" was accepted by Chem. Rev. Congratulations! 2013-3-5: Shangfeng Yang and Chuanbao Chen's paper "An Improbable Monometal Cluster Entrapped in a Fullerene Cage: YCN@C82" was accepted by Sci. Rep. (Nature Publishing Group). This work is based on international collaborations with Profs. Xing Lu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), Zhongfang Chen (University of Puerto Rico, USA) and Takeshi Akasaka (University of Tsukuba, Japan). Congratulations!<news-USTC> <news-HFNL> <news-SCMC> 2013-2-28: Fupin Liu's paper "A Series of Inorganic Solid Nitrogen Sources for the Synthesis of Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: The Dependence of Production Yield on the Oxidation State of Nitrogen and Counter Ion" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2013-2-27: Undergraduates Miss Qing Liu (Anhui Univ.), Miss Mengyuan Chen (Dept. of MSE, USTC) and Mr. Kai Zhang (School for the Gifted Young, USTC ) joined our group. Welcome! 2013-1-24: Prof. Haojie Lu (Fudan University, China) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2013-1-19: The Annual Group Meeting of Lab. of Endohedrall Fullerenes was held successfully. All graduates and some undergraduates attended the meeting with snacks, joys, and fruitful discussions. Three sub-groups summarized their annual progresses, and competed for the best-presentation prize based on the votings of all participants. Besides, Prof. Shangfeng Yang awarded the annual best-behavior prize to Mr. Song Wang. After the meeting, our group got together for a dinner to celebrate the harvest of 2012 and the coming Chinese New Year of Snake. We then had a good time in KTV together and everybody performanced well <photos>! 2012-12-30: Mr. Tao Wei (PhD candidate) was awarded the "National Academic Awards for Ph. D. candidates" (国家级博士生学术新人奖). Congratulations! 2012-12-29: Ying Xu's paper "Micron-Sized Hexagonal Single-Crystalline Rods of Metal Nitride Clusterfullerene: Preparation, Characterization, and Photoelectrochemical Application" was accepted by Nanoscale. Congratulations! 2012-12-22 to 12-23: Together with the USTC delegate, Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the joint Colloqium between CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, USTC and CAS Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Sciences held in Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2012-12-17 to 12-19: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 5th Symposium on Functional Oxide Materials and Applications held in Ningbo, China and presented an invited talk entitled "Improving Efficiency of Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells via Doping in Active Layer or Interface Engineering ". 2012-12-12: Haitao Wang's paper "Efficiency Enhancement of Polymer Solar Cells by Applying Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) as Cathode Buffer Layer via Spin-Coating or Self-Assembly" was accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2012-11-20 to 11-22: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the Colloqium on 20 years of fullerenes at IFW Dresden held in Dresden, Germany and presented an invited talk entitled "Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes: Synthesis, Isolation and Functionalization". 2012-11-19: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "A new isomer of pristine higher fullerene Cs-C82 (4) captured by chlorination as C82Cl20" was accepted by Chem. Asian J. Congratulations! 2012-11-16 to 11-18: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 6th Young Scholors Symposium in Inorganic Chemistry held in Nanjing, China and presented a poster presentation. 2012-11-10 to 11-12: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 9th National Symposium on Electronic Process in Organic Solids held in Yangzhou, China and presented a poster presentation entitled "Oleamide as a self-assembled cathode buffer layer for polymer solar cells: the role of the terminal group on the function of the surfactant". 2012-11-7: Mr. Muqing Chen passed the PhD thesis defence successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2012-10-21 to 10-25: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 11th International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology held in Kunming, China and presented a plenary talk entitled "Nanostructures of Endohedral Fullerenes: Preparation and Properties". 2012-10-20: Prof. Shangfeng Yang organized an annual meeting for the USTC "High-efficiency, Low-cost Photovoltaic Solar Cells: Design and Device Fabrication" Innovation Team as the PI of project. Around 20 experts working in the field of solar cell attended the meeting, including the external expert Prof. Songyuan Dai (Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and sevearl prominent experts of USTC such as Prof. Changfei Zhu (vice president of USTC) and Prof. Yalin Lu (Head of Dept. of Material Sciences and Engineering, USTC), and members of our innovation team <news>! 2012-10-18: Mr. Tao Wei (PhD candidate) was awarded "QiuShi Scholorship" (求是奖). Undergraduate Mr. Xinghao Zhou was awarded "GuoMoRuo Scholorship" (郭沫若奖, the highest honor for USTC undergraduates). Congratulations! 2012-10-10: Mr. Muqing Chen and Miss Ying Xu (both PhD candidates) were awarded "GuangHua Scholorship". Congratulations! 2012-10-8: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "Skeletal Transformation of IPR C82 into Non-IPR C82Cl28: Thermodynamic Driving Forces Meet Notably Low Activation Barriers" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2012-9-27: In collaboration with Prof. Qiquan Qiao (Center for Advanced Photovoltaics, South Dakota State University, USA), Zhang Wenfeng's paper "Oleamide as a self-assembled cathode buffer layer for polymer solar cells: the role of the terminal group on the function of the surfactant" was accepted by J. Mater. Chem. Congratulations! 2012-9-23: Our group had a welcome dinner for the new graduates and undergraduates. <photos> 2012-9-23: Our group held a badminton match. More than 20 group members attended the match and everybody tried his/her best in the match. The champions of the Men's double and Mixed double are S. Wang/Z. Liu and X. Zhao/J. Guan, respectively. Congratulations! <photos> 2012-9-13: Muqing Chen and Minghua Li's paper "Side-chain Substitution of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) by PCBM via Postpolymerization: An Intramolecular Hybrid of Donor and Acceptor" was accepted by Polym. Chem. Congratulations! 2012-9-4: Dr. Philip Earis (Managing Editor, Energy & Environmental Science) visited our laboratory. 2012-9-3: Graduate student Mr. Xiang Chen joined our group. Welcome! 2012-8-23: Graduate student Mr. Jieming Zhen joined our group. Welcome! 2012-7-23: Prof. Qiquan Qiao (Center for Advanced Photovoltaics, South Dakota State University, USA) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Development of Cost Effective Solar Cells" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2012-7-17 to 7-18: Prof. Zhongfang Chen (University of Puerto Rico, USA) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Computational Endohedral Metallofullerene Chemistry" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2012-7-16: Visiting undergraduate Mr. Chuan-Ying Wang (Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan) joined our group. Welcome! 2012-7-12: In collaboration with Profs. Guanwu Wang (USTC) and Alan L. Balch (University of California, Davis), Tao Wei, Mingzhi Jiao and Shangfeng Yang's paper "Azide Addition to An Endohedral Metallofullerene: Formation of Azafulleroids of Sc3N@Ih-C80" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations! 2012-7-11: Undergraduate Mr. Zhixiong Liu (Dept. of MSE) joined our group. Welcome! 2012-7-10: On behalf of the department, Prof. Shangfeng Yang gave a presentation introducing Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering for the students participating the Summer Camp, who visited our lab after the colloqium. 2012-7-4 to 7-6: Prof. Thomas Greber (University of Zürich, Switzerland) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Fullerenes on Surfaces: From C60 to spin shuttles" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2012-7-2: Graduate student Mr. Fei Xia joined our group. Welcome! 2012-6-21 to 6-23: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 2nd USTC-PolyU-SICCAS Joint Workshop on Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion held in Hong Kong and presented an invited talk entitled "Towards Efficiency Enhancement of Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells: Cathode Interfacial Layers". 2012-6-18: Our group had a farewell dinner for graduates (Mr. Mingzhi Jiao and Mr. Haitao Wang) and undergraduates (Mr. Jian Guan, Mr. Jianhe Guo, Miss Xianghong Bi, Miss Dandan Zhang, Mr. Jinkai Li, Mr. Xuewu Ou) <photos>. We wish them all the best and much success on the future graduate study or career! 2012-6-18: Haitao Wang's paper "Enhancing Power Conversion Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cell via Treatment of PEDOT:PSS Anode Buffer Layer Using DMF Solvent" was accepted by The Journal of University of Science and Technology of China. Congratulations! 2012-6-9: Undergraduates Mr. Jian Guan, Mr. Jianhe Guo, Miss Xianghong Bi, Miss Dandan Zhang, Mr. Jinkai Li, Mr. Xuewu Ou passed the Bachelor thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! 2012-6-8: Mr. Zhiqiang Zhao (PhD candidate) and Miss Juling Ruan (visiting master student from Huazhong University of Science and Technology) joined our group. Welcome! 2012-6-3: Our group travelled together to Chao Hu and Mushan Island for hiking. Everybody enjoyed the landscape and our big family had a good day <photos>. 2012-5-24: Graduates Mr. Mingzhi Jiao and Mr. Haitao Wang passed the Master thesis defence successfully.. Congratulations! 2012-5-23: Dr. Jing Huang was granted a project by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Congratulations! 2012-5-21: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University, Russia), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "Four Isomers of C96 Fullerene Structurally Proven as Chlorides C96Cl22 and C96Cl24" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! <news1><news2> 2012-5-6 to 5-10: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 221st ECS Meeting held in Seattle, USA and presented an invited talk entitled "Urea as a New and Cheap Nitrogen Source for the Synthesis of Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes". 2012-5-4: In collaboration with Profs. Thomas Greber (Universitaet Zürich, Switzerland) and Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden, Germany), Shangfeng Yang's paper "An endohedral single-molecule magnet with long relaxation times: DySc2N@C80" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations! 2012-5-2: Undergraduate Miss Xianghong Bi received a Mphil offer from Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, congratulations! 2012-4-19 to 4-21: Prof. Xiang Zhao (Xi’an Jiaotong University, Russia) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Endohedral Metallofullerenes: Interplay between Experiment and Theory" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2012-4-16: Undergraduate Mr. Jianhe Guo received a PhD offer from University of Texas at Austin. Congratulations! 2012-4-13 to 4-16: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 28th Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) Congress, which was held in Chengdu, China, and presented an invited talk "Hybrid Hexagonal Nanorods of Metal Nitride Clusterfullerene and Porphyrin Using a Supramolecular Approach" and an oral presentation entitled "Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes Encaging Metal Clusters". 2012-3-31 to 4-1: Mr. Muqin Chen, Miss Ying Xu, Mr. Fupin Liu (PhD candidates) attended the 1st USTC Graduate Annual Meeting of Chemistry and gave oral presentations, Mr. Wenfeng Zhang (PhD candidate) and Mr. Haitao Wang presented posters. 2012-3-21: Two undergraduates Miss Dandan Zhang and Mr. Jinkai Li received PhD offers from University of California - Berkeley and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, respectively. Undergraduate Miss Xianghong Bi received a Master offer from University of Florida. Congratulations! 2012-3-11 to 3-13: Mr. Wenfeng Zhang (PhD candidate) attended the International Symposium on Electronic/Optic Functional Molecules (ISEOFM), which was held in Shanghai, China and presented a poster presentation entitled "Efficiency Enhancement of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells by Doping in Photoactive Layers". 2012-3-8: Mr. Mingzhi Jiao (MSc candidate) received a PhD offer from Louisiana State University, congratulations! 2012-3-5: A new course page is open for downloading course materials for "Inorganic Chemistry II". 2012-2-26: Profs. Ulf Karlsson & Hans Agren (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden) visited Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering. On behalf of the department head, Prof. Shangfeng Yang gave a presentation introducing Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering. After the meeting they visited our Lab. 2012-2-20: Undergraduates Mr. Zhen Zhang (Dept. of MSE) joined our group. Welcome! 2012-2-19 to 2-20: Together with the USTC delegate, Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 2012 Annual Meeting of CAS Key Lab of Materials for Energy Conversion held in Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2012-2-9: Undergraduates Mr. Yang Gao (School for the Gifted Young) joined our group. Welcome! 2012-1-26: Chuanbao Chen's paper "Titanium/Yttrium Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerene TiY2N@C80: Synthesis, Isolation, and Effect of the Group-III Metal" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2012-1-13 to 1-15: Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University, Russia) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Structures and Chemistry of empty higher fullerenes" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2012-1-9 to 1-11: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the Symposium on Cluster and Nanosciences, which was held in Xiamen, China, and presented an invited talk: "Exploring Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes". 2012-1-8: The Annual Group Meeting of Lab. of Endohedrall Fullerenes was held successfully. All of group members attended the meeting, presenting their annual summary work for the past year. Two members (Mr. W. F. Zhang, Mr. T. Wei) won the best-presentation prizes based on the votings of all participants. Prior to the meeting, our group got together for bowling game to celebrate the new year. Everybody was relaxed and participated in a final match in which three teams won. It was a good time for us to play together, enjoy the performances of others and experience the team coorporation <photos>. 2012-1-6 to 1-8: Prof. Xing Lu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Novel Carbon Hybrid Materials: Endohedral Metallofullerenes" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-12-20 to 12-24: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 2nd International Symposium on Fullerene Application Research, which was held in Ganzhou, China, and presented an invited talk: "Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes". 2011-12-16 to 12-19: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 1st International Symposium on Center for Creation of Functional Materials, which was held in University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, and presented a keynote talk: "Exploring Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes". 2011-12-12 to 12-14: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University and gave a talk entitled "Novel Endohedral Fullerenes and Application of Fullerenes in Polymer Solar Cells" upon the invitation of Prof. Suyuan Xie <news>. 2011-12-10: Prof. Shangfeng Yang organized a progress meeting for the USTC "High-efficiency, Low-cost Photovoltaic Solar Cells: Design and Device Fabrication" Innovation Team. 2011-12-6: Mr. Mingzhi Jiao won the "Suzhou Industrial Park Scholarship". Congratulations! 2011-12-5: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was granted a Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (120K RMB). Congratulations! We acknowledge the Ministry of Education of China for the financial support. 2011-11-26: 杨上峰教授获邀作为校方嘉宾参加了由中科大化学与材料科学学院分团委、研究生会举办的“2011高管论坛座谈会（第二期）”，与校外嘉宾（屠钻先生，晶澳太阳能公司合肥基地人力资源部资深经理）一道和同学们交流了太阳能电池产业的现状与未来 <news>。 2011-11-26: Around 120 freshman of our School visited our lab on the open day <news>。 2011-11-24: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang, Chuanbao Chen and Tao Wei's paper "X-ray crystallographic proof of the isomer D2-C84 (5) as trifluoromethylated and chlorinated derivatives, C84(CF3)16, C84Cl20, and C84Cl32" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations. 2011-11-24: Undergraduate Mr. Minxiang Zeng (Dept. of Chemical Physics) joined our group. Welcome! 2011-11-14: 由杨上峰教授负责的中国科学技术大学“高效、低成本太阳能电池设计与制备”创新团队与合肥市长丰县水湖镇大学生村官举行交流会，包括材料科学与工程系执行主任，国家首批“千人计划”入选者陆亚林教授在内的团队成员和来访的近15名大学生村官进行了愉快的交流<news>。 2011-11-5 to 11-6: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended 2011 USTC-DICP Young Scholar Symposium on Surface Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis, which was held in Dalian, China, and presented an invited talk: "Efficiency Enhancement of Polymer Solar Cells by Doping in Photoactive Layers". 2011-10-26: Prof. John Bell (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) visited our laboratory and gave a presentation entitled "Nanostructured solar energy materials in action" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-10-22: Prof. Qiquan Qiao (South Dakota State University, USA) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-10-18: Undergraduate Mr. Jinkai Li (Dept. of Chemistry) joined our group. Welcome! 2011-10-13 to 10-17: Prof. Shangfeng Yang, Miss Ying Xu, Mr. Muqing Chen (both PhD candidates) attended the 10th International Symposium on Functional pi-Electron Systems (Fpi10), which was held in Beijing, China. Our group presented four poster presentations: "Fullerenes Encaging Metal Clusters -- Clusterfullerenes"; "An endohedral titanium(III) in a clusterfullerene: putting a non-group-III metal nitride into the C80-Ih fullerene cage" (both by S. Yang) ;"Synthesis of Alkyl Sulfonated Fullerenes without Catalyst: Improved Water Solubility by the Sulfonate Groups" (by M. Chen);"Hybrid Hexagonal Nanorods of Metal Nitride Clusterfullerene and Porphyrin Using a Supramolecular Approach" (by Y. Xu). 2011-10-13: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and gave a talk "Novel Endohedral Fullerenes: Synthesis and Functionalization" upon the invitation of Prof. Chun-Ru Wang. 2011-10-9 to 10-12: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 7th National and Global Chinese Conference of Organic Molecules & Polymer Light-emitting Materials and Their Opto-electronic Properties, which was held in Zhangjiajie, China, and presented an invited talk: "Efficiency Enhancement of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells by Doping in Photoactive Layers". 2011-10-4: Shangfeng Yang's review paper "Synthesis, Separation, and Molecular Structures of Endohedral Fullerenes" was accepted by Curr. Org. Chem. Congratulations! 2011-9-25: Prof. Xiaoyuan Chen (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-9-24: Undergraduate Mr. Jian Guan (Dept. of MSE) joined our group. Welcome! 2011-9-23: Our group had a welcome dinner for the new graduates and undergraduates <photos>. 2011-9-20: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Tao Wei's paper "The Most Stable IPR Isomer of C88 Fullerene, Cs-C88 (17), Revealed by X-ray Structures of C88Cl16 and C88Cl22" was accepted by Chem. Asian J. as a VIP paper. Congratulations! 2011-9-17: Prof. Rod Ruoff (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Austin) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-9-6: Mingzhi Jiao's paper "Urea as a New and Cheap Nitrogen Source for the Synthesis of Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: the Role of Decomposed Product on Selectivity of Fullerenes" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations! 2011-9-6: Prof. Shangfeng Yang gave a lecture entitled "Fullerenes and Endohedral Fullerenes: Fundamentals and Applications" for the graduate course of "Progress of Inorganic Chemistry" organized by Prof. Qing Yang. 2011-8-30: Graduate students Miss Lixin Xie and Miss Xuemei Zhao joined our group. Welcome! 2011-8-17 to 8-19: Graduates Mr. Wenfeng Zhang and Mr. Haitao Wang attended the 2011 Symposium on Open Projects of CAS Key Lab of Novel Thin Film Solar Cells, which was held in Insititute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China. Mr. Wenfeng Zhang presented an invited talk: "Efficiency Enhancement of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells by Doping". We acknowledge CAS Key Lab of Novel Thin Film Solar Cells for the generous support on granting an open project to Mr. Wenfeng Zhang. 2011-8-15: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Chuanbao Chen and Shangfeng Yang's paper "C76 fullerene chlorides and cage transformations. Structural and theoretical study" was accepted by Dalton Trans. Congratulations! 2011-8-1: Graduate student Mr. Song Wang joined our group. Welcome! 2011-7-25 to 7-29: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 8th National Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry of Chinese Chemical Society, which was held in Harbin, China, and presented an invited talk: "Novel Endohedral Clusterfullerenes Encaging Metal Clusters". 2011-7-24: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 1st USTC-PolyU-SICCAS Joint Workshop on Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion, which was held in Hefei, China, and presented an invited talk: "Efficiency Enhancement of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells by Doping". 2011-7-22: Prof. Yuhuang Wang (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ. of Maryland) visited our laboratory and gave a presentation entitled "Confined propagation of a covalent chemistry in an electron sea" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-7-17: Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Univ. of Maryland) visited our lab and had fuitful discussion with us. 2011-7-17: Prof. Shangfeng Yang gave a lecture entitled "Organic Photovoltaic Solar Cells" for the summer course of "Applied Electrochemistry" organized by Prof. Yanxia Chen. 2011-7-4: Undergraduates Miss Qianhan Yang (School for the Gifted Young), Mr. Keda He (School for the Physics) joined our group. Welcome! 2011-7-3: Two graduates, Dr. Chuanbao Chen, Dr. Minghua Li, were formally conferred the PhD degrees. Mr. Hong Ying was formally conferred the M.E. degree. Congratulations! 2011-6-17: Dr. Jing Huang joined our group as a postdoc fellow. Welcome! 2011-6-17: Ying Xu's paper "Hybrid Hexagonal Nanorods of Metal Nitride Clusterfullerene and Porphyrin Using a Supramolecular Approach" was accepted by J. Mater. Chem. Congratulations! 2011-6-12: Our group had a farewell lunch for graduates (Mr. Chuanbao Chen, Mr. Minghua Li, Mr. Hong Ying) and undergraduates (Miss Chenchen He, Mr. Chenhui Xu, Mr. Hengrui Fang, Mr. Zhan Xu) <photos>. We wish them all the best and much success on the future career! 2011-6-10: Undergraduates Miss Chenchen He, Mr. Chenhui Xu, Mr. Hengrui Fang, Mr. Zhan Xu passed the Bachelor thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! They will go to USA for graduate study (Wayne State University; University of Houston; Auburn University). We wish all of them all the best and much success on the future graduate study! 2011-6-7: Wenfeng Zhang's paper "Fe3O4 Nanoparticles Induced Magnetic Field Effect on Efficiency Enhancement of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells" was accepted by Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. Congratulations! 2011-6-6: Prof. Lin Guo (Beihang University, China) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-6-3: Undergraduates Mr. Fangda Xu, Miss Dandan Zhang, Mr. Xinghao Zhou, Mr. Xiao Huang joined our group. Welcome! 2011-6-2: Graduates Mr. Hong Ying passed the Master thesis defence successfully. Congratulations! 2011-5-31: Prof. Suyuan Xie (Xiamen University, China) visited our laboratory and gave a presentation entitled "Novel Structures of Fullerenes and Their Formation Mechanism" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-5-30: Graduates Mr. Chuanbao Chen and Mr. Minghua Li passed the PhD thesis defence successfully <photos>. Congratulations! 2011-5-30: Prof. Shihe Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) visited our laboratory and gave a presentation entitled "Clusters, Nanomaterials and Beyond" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-5-20: Shangfeng Yang and Fupin Liu's invited feature article "Fullerenes Encaging Metal Clusters — Clusterfullerenes" was accepted by Chem. Commun. Congratulations! 2011-5-16: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was awarded the "the 1st Anhui Provincial Hundreds of Talents" (20 awardees for 2010) (安徽省首届“百人计划”，“安徽特聘专家”称号). Congratulations! We acknowledge the Human Resources Bureau of Anhui Province for the financial support. 2011-5-11: Muqin Chen 's paper "Synthesis of Alkyl Sulfonated Fullerenes without Catalyst: Improved Water Solubility by the Sulfonate Groups" was accepted by J. Nanosci. & Nanotechnol. Congratulations! 2011-5-8: Our group travelled together to Tianzhu Mountain for hiking. Everybody enjoyed the landscape and the happy time for our big family very much <photos>. 2011-5-6: Undergraduate Mr. Dongyuan Yang, Mr. Lianmeng Liu (School for the Gifted Young) joined our group. Welcome! 2011-4-29: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Chuanbao Chen's paper "Six IPR Isomers of C90 Fullerene Captured as Chlorides: Carbon Cage Connectivities and Chlorination Patterns" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations! 2011-4-25 - 4-29: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended 2011 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. 2011-4-2: A new version of our homepage is working. Thanks to the great efforts of Mr. Muqing Chen and Mr. Hong Ying! 2011-3-28: Undergraduate Miss Xi Chen joined our group. Welcome! 2011-3-25: Dr. Bin Fan (Xiamen Weihua Solar Co. Ltd.) visited our laboratory. He gave a presentation entitled "Commercialization of Organic Solar Cells" and had fruitful discussions with us. 2011-3-15: In collaboration with Prof. Zujin Shi (Peking University), Hong Ying and Shangfeng Yang's paper "Reduced Graphene Oxide-Modified Bi2WO6 as an Improved Photocatalyst under Visible Light" was accepted by Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica. Congratulations! 2011-3-15: Logo of our Lab has been created. Thanks to the great efforts of Mr. Jianhe Guo and Mr. Boxue Chen! 2011-3-3: In collaboration with Profs. Guanwu Wang (USTC) and Alan L. Balch (University of California, Davis), Mingzhi Jiao, Nan Wang, Chuanbao Chen and Shangfeng Yang's paper "The Cycloaddition Reaction of Sc3N@C80 with 2-Amino-4,5-diisopropoxybenzoic Acid and Isoamyl Nitrite in Air Produces an Unprecedented Open-Cage Metallofullerene" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2011-2-28: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Chuanbao Chen's paper "Trifluoromethylated D5h and Ih Isomers of Sc3N@C80: Synthesis, Isolation, and Addition Patterns of Sc3N@D5h-C80(CF3)18 and Sc3N@Ih-C80(CF3)14" was accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! 2011-2-28: Undergraduate Miss Lixin Xie (Sun Yat-Sen Univ.) joined our group. Welcome! 2011-2-1: Minghua Li's paper "Synthesis of Pyrene-substituted Poly(3-hexylthiophene) via Postpolymerization and Its Noncovalent Interactions with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" was accepted by J. Phys. Chem. C. Congratulations! 2011-1-14: Profs. Mohamed S. El-Aasser (Vice President of Lehigh University) and Stephen Pessiki (Head of Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering) from Lehigh University visited Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering. Prof. Shangfeng Yang organized a colloquium on behalf of the department. Prof. Yang first gave a presentation introducing the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, USTC and particularly Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering. Profs. Chusheng Chen (Vice president of USTC), Xuewu Ge (Vice dean of School), Tongwen Xu, Haojun Liang, Jianxiong Zeng and several other professors attended the colloquium and presented their recent works <news>. 2011-1-6: Profs. Chunru Wang and Chunying Shu (Vice Director of the Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited our laboratory and gave a presentation entitled "Exploring Novel Structures of Fullerenes". They had fruitful discussions with us. 2010-12-28: The Annual Group Meeting of Lab. of Endohedrall Fullerenes was held successfully. More than 18 group members including all graduates and some undergraduates attended the meeting with snacks, joys, and fruitful discussions. Three sub-groups summarized their annual progresses, and competed for the best-presentation prize based on the votings of all participants. Prof. Shangfeng Yang awarded the annual best-behavior prize as well. After the meeting our group got together for a dinner to celebrate the chinese Rabbit Year. We then had a good time in KTV together and everybody enjoyed the performances of others <photos>. 2010-12-25: Alumni Mr. Pan Xu (SUNY-Stony Brook) visited our group again. 2010-11-20: Prof. Wallace C.H. Choy (University of Hong Kong) visited our laboratory and gave a presentation entitled "Optical Design of Organic Solar Cells and LEDs". Further collaborations have been discussed. 2010-11-18 to 11-19: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 2010 (11th) China PV Solar in the Nanjing, China. Several other members of USTC "High-efficiency, Low-cost Photovoltaic Solar Cells: Design and Device Fabrication" Innovation Team (Profs. Chen Gao, Deliang Wang etc.) also attended the conference. 2010-11-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was invited to attend "1st International Symposium on Center for Creation of Functional Materials of University of Tsukuba Strategic Project" as a Keynote speaker, which will be held in March 2011 in Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan. 2010-11-2: Dr. Yuepeng Wan (Senior VP & CTO, LDK Solar Co. Ltd.) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. LDK Solar Co. Ltd. is a World-class Solar Company producing its own polysilicon, monocrystalline and multicrystalline ingots, wafers, cells and modules. 2010-11-1: Prof. Wenhua Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2010-10-30: Profs. Charles Chee Surya (Acting Dean of Faculty of Engineering) and Kwok-yin Wong (Dean, Faculty of Applied Science & Textiles, Chair Professor of Chemical Technology) from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University visited our department. Prof. Shangfeng Yang introduced the USTC "High-efficiency, Low-cost Photovoltaic Solar Cells: Design and Device Fabrication" Innovation Team as the PI of project and Prof. Charles Chee Surya presented the recent work of his group in CZTS thin-film solar cell <news>. Afterwards the two guests visited our lab. 2010-10-27: Undergraduate Miss Xianghong Bi joined our group. Welcome! 2010-10-26: Prof. Ning Dai (Vice Director of Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited our laboratory and had fruitful discussions with us. 2010-10-25: In collaboration with Prof. Weixin Huang (IFW-Dresden), Chuanbao Chen and Shangfeng Yang's paper "Finely Dispersed Au Nanoparticles on SiO2 Achieved by the C60 Additive and Their Catalytic Activity" was accepted by ChemCatChem. Congratulations! 2010-10-23 to 10-25: Prof. Shangfeng Yang organized a kick-off meeting for the USTC "High-efficiency, Low-cost Photovoltaic Solar Cells: Design and Device Fabrication" Innovation Team as the PI of project, which was held in Lujiang District. Around 20 experts working in the field of solar cell attended the meeting, including two external experts: Prof. Ning Dai (Vice Director of Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Donghang Yan (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry). Other participants include Prof. Changfei Zhu (vice president of USTC), Prof. Xiaoping Wang (vice director of Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale), Prof. Yalin Lu (Head of Dept. of Material Sciences and Engineering, USTC), and members of our innovation team<news>. 2010-10-19: Upon the invitation of Prof. Lothar Dunsch, PhD candidate Mr. Chuanbao Chen joined Prof. Dunsch's group of Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany for an exchange program which will last for four and a half months. All the best to him! 2010-10-15: Two PhD candidates of our group were awarded the annual excellent graduate scholarships: Mr. Chuanbao Chen won the "Donggang Scholarship" and Mr. Minghua Li won the "Guanghua Scholarship". Congratulations! 2010-10-10 to 10-12: Upon the invitation of Prof. Lothar Dunsch, Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany and gave a talk entitled "New Functional Derivatizations of Fullerene and Endohedral Fullerene". 2010-10-4 to 10-10: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended Fullerene Silver Anniversary Symposium (FSAS 2010) in the island of Crete, Greece and presented an invited talk entitled "Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes Incorporating Titanium (III)". 2010-10-1: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Shangfeng Yang and Chuanbao Chen's paper "New isomers of trifluoromethylated derivatives of metal nitride clusterfullerene: Sc3N@C80(CF3)n (n=14 and 16)" was accepted by Chem. Asian J. Congratulations! 2010-9-20: Undergraduates Mr. Xuewu Ou, Mr. Jianhe Guo, Mr. Long Chen joined our group. Welcome! 2010-9-17 to 9-19: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the Kolleg for Humboldt Fellows and Awardees in China “Frontier Research in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine”, which was held in Shanghai, China, and presented an invited talk: "Fullerene-based Organic Photovoltaic Solar Cells: An Introduction and Recent State of Research". 2010-9-13 to 9-16: Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University, Russia) as one of our collaborators visited our laboratory and gave a presentation entitled "Investigations in the field of empty higher fullerenes" <photos>. Further collaborations have been discussed. 2010-9-10: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was awarded the "Young Faculty Award" of USTC Alumni Foundation among five awardees. Congratulations! 2010-8-30: Graduate Miss Shuxuan Qu joined our group. Welcome! 2010-7-18: Upon the invitation of Prof. Lothar Dunsch, Prof. Shangfeng Yang started the visit in Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany, which last for 1.5 months. 2010-7-13: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was granted a Scientific Research Project for Returned Scholars, Ministry of Education of China (40K RMB). Congratulations! We acknowledge Ministry of Education of China for the financial support. 2010-7-13: In collaboration with Prof. Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden), Chuanbao Chen and Shangfeng Yang's paper "The Spin-Flow Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules with Flexible Spin Density: Electrochemistry, ESR, Cluster and Spin Dynamics, and Bonding in TiSc2N@C80" was accepted by ACS Nano,Congratulations! 2010-7-2: Our group make a Farewell Party for Undergraduates Ms. Qinwen Zhu, Mr. Pan Xu, and Mr. Jinguo Yang <photos>. We thank them for their works and contributions to the growth of the group. Mr. Pan Xu and Ms. Qinwen Zhu will take their PhD study in State Univ. of New York (SUNY)-Stony Brook and Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (HKUST). Mr. Jinguo Yang joins our group for research work. We wish them all the best for the future! 2010-6-30: Graduate Mr. Tao Wei joined our group. Welcome! 2010-6-20 to 6-23: Prof. Shangfeng Yang, Mr. Minghua Li, Mr. Chuanbao Chen, Mr. Wenfeng Zhang (all PhD candidates) attended the 27th CCS Congress, which was held in Xiamen, China. Prof. Shangfeng Yang presented two talks: "Endohedral Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: a Novel Form of Fullerenes" (Nanochemistry Symposium) and "Novel Endohedral Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: Synthesis, Structure and Properties" (Inorganic Chemistry Symposium). Mr. Minghua Li presented a talk "Donor-p-Acceptor Double-Cable Polythiophenes Bearing Fullerene Pendant with Tunable Donor/Acceptor Ratio: A Facile Postpolymerization" (Electrochemistry and Energetic Chemistry Symposium) while both Mr. Chuanbao Chen and Mr. Wenfeng Zhang presented posters <photos>. 2010-6-18: Undergraduates Ms. Qinwen Zhu, Mr. Pan Xu, and Mr. Jinguo Yang passed their defences for the bachelor degree. Mr. Pan Xu was awarded the "Excellent Undergraduates 2010 of USTC". Congratulations! 2010-6-18: Prof. Shangfeng Yang passed a defence for a "Innovative Team Project" of USTC (1000K RMB), which is the integration of several research groups from different departments working in the field of new concept solar cells. Congratulations! 2010-6-14 to 6-17: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 8th National Symposium on Electronic Process Organic Solids, which was held in Xi'an, China, and presented an invited talk: "Donor-pi-Acceptor Double-Cable Polythiophenes Bearing Fullerene Pendant with Tunable Donor/Acceptor Ratio: A Facile Postpolymerization & An Introduction to Endohedral Fullerenes". 2010-6-14: Shangfeng Yang and Wenfeng Zhang's paper (in collaboration with Prof. Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden)) "A Facile Route to Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes Using Guanidinium Salts: A Selective Organic Solid as the Nitrogen Source" was accepted by Chem. Eur. J.,Congratulations! 2010-6-10: Undergraduate Mr. Boxue Chen joined our group. Welcome! 2010-5-10: Shangfeng Yang and Fupin Liu's invited review paper "Novel Endohedral Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: Synthesis, Structure and Property" was accepted by Progress in Chemistry (Hua Xue Jin Zhan). Congratulations! 2010-5-9: Our group was gathered for a barbecue in Science Island, Hefei, and two talented undergraduates from School for the Gifted Young were invited as well as two beautiful girls. Everybody enjoyed the barbecue and it was the happy time for our big family <photos>. 2010-4-25: Prof. Shangfeng Yang received a travel grant in the amount of $300 for the 217th ECS Meeting. Congratulations! 2010-4-25 to 4-30: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 217th ECS Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada and presented two talks: "Putting Titanium (III) Metal into the C80-Ih Clusterfullerenes" -- the Keynote talk in H5 (Endofullerenes and Carbon Nanocapsules) session (one of two Keynote talks among 20 talks); "One-pot Synthesis of New Thio-Derivatives of C60 with the Unexpected Formation of a Thiazolidine-fulleropyrrolidine" in H2 (Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes) session. 2010-4-16: In collaboration with Prof. Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden), Shangfeng Yang's paper "An endohedral redox sytem in a fullerene cage: The Ce based mixed cluster fullerene Lu2CeN@C80" was accepted by Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Congratulations! 2010-4-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was awarded a travel grant in the amount of $300 for the 217th ECS Meeting by the Fullerenes, Nanotubes & Carbon Nanostructures Division. 2010-4-9: Prof. Shangfeng Yang visited School of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University and gave a talk "Synthesis of Novel Endohedral Fullerenes and Functionalization of Fullerenes" upon the invitation of Prof. Louzhen Fan. 2010-4-6 to 4-8: Prof. Shangfeng Yang attended the 370th XiangShan Meeting: "Symposium on the Development Strategy of Carbonaceous Nanomaterials" which was held in XiangShan, Beijing. 2010-3-18: Undergraduate Mr. Pan Xu of our group participated in "The Bangkok Business Challenge @ Sasin 2010" together with several undergraduates from MBA and Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and entered the Play-off Round Competition. The USTC team with the proposed project based on the technology of the plastics solar cells developed in our group finally won the "Recognition of Environmental Concerns" Award <news>. Congratulations! 2010-3-12: In collaboration with Prof. Sergey I. Troyanov (Moscow State University), Chuanbao Chen and Shangfeng Yang's paper "Chlorination of C86 to C84Cl32 with Non-classical Heptagon-containing Fullerene Cage Formed by Cage Shrinking" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations! 2010-3-11: In collaboration with Prof. Lothar Dunsch (IFW-Dresden), Shangfeng Yang's paper "Metal Sulfide in a C82 Fullerene Cage: A New Form of Endohedral Clusterfullerenes" was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations! 2010-3-8: Undergraduate Ms. Qinwen Zhu joined our group for the bachelor dissertation work. Welcome! 2010-3-2: Undergraduate Mr. Zhan Xu joined our group. Welcome! 2010-2-12: Minghua Li's paper "Donor-pi-Acceptor Double-Cable Polythiophenes Bearing Fullerene Pendant with Tunable Donor/Acceptor Ratio: A Facile Postpolymerization" was accepted by J. Mater. Chem. Congratulations! 2010-1-14: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was invited to attend the 217th ECS Meeting and will present our recent results on the synthesis of endohedral fullerenes as a Keynote speaker in H5 (Endofullerenes and Carbon Nanocapsules) session, which will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 25-30, 2010. 2009-1-5: The photo of group dinner and some useful reading resources (in Chinese) were uploaded. 2009-1-4: Prof. Xiaofang Li (Hunan University of Science and Technology) visited our group for collaborative experiments and will stay with us for one week. 2009-12-30: Our group get together for a dinner to celebrate the New Year -- the chinese Tiger Year. 2009-12-29: Prof. Shangfeng Yang was granted a provincial project (60K RMB). We acknowledge the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Anhui Province for the financial support. 2009-12-19: Pan Xu (an undergraduate of our group) participated in an innovative team which won the "Golden Prize" of university selection contest for "The 7th challenge cup" of Chinese college students business plan competition <news>. Their team will participte in the next competetion organized by Anhui Province <news>. The proposed project is based on the technology of plastic solar cells used in our group. Congratulations! 2009-12-18: Fei He's paper "Electrode Performance and Analysis of Intermediate Temperature Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Proton-Conducting Electrolyte of BaCe0.5Zr0.3Y0.2O3-δ" was just accepted by J. Power Sources. Congratulations! 2009-12-9: Minghua Li's paper "Fullerene Substitution of the Donor/Acceptor Branched Disubstituted Polyacetylenes: Significantly Accelerated Polymerization by the C60 Pendant" was just published as an Early View paper in Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2009-12-9: Chuanbao Chen's paper "One-pot Synthesis of New Thio Derivatives of C60 with the Unexpected Formation of Thiazolidine Fulleropyrrolidine" was just published as an Advance Article in New. J. Chem. 2009-11-1: Congratuations for the opening of our group homepage! Thanks to the great efforts of Muqing Chen and Hong Ying.