On June 14, Mr. Zhao Huaibin, member of Committee on Science and Technology of CPC Shaanxi Provincial Committee and vice director of Shaanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology, visited the Photonic Nose and Molecular Materials group and Shaanxi Provincial Basic Discipline Research Center for Surface Chemistry at Shaanxi Normal University.

SNNU vice president Dong Zhibao, Department of Science and Technology director Tang Sanyi and other officials accompanied the visit.

Prof. Fang Yu briefed Zhao Huaibin and his associates about his group’s research progress and major achievements from basic research to industrial application, evolving from fluorescent sensors technology to laminated sensor structure, to high-end SRED series portable explosives and narcotics detectors, particularly the thin film fluorescent sensors which broke the monopoly of foreign companies on sensor technologies and realized a technological breakthrough of taking the lead instead of running together. Fang also briefed about applications of the group’s work in gel chemistry in gelled propellant, high-energy density energetic material, and light-weight high-strength Soft Template-based Polystyrene Foam (STPS), and envisioned the promotion and industrialization of the group’s new technologies and new materials.

Zhao Huaibin affirmed Fang group’s research achievements, recommended Shaanxi province’s Qinchuangyuan Innovation Platform, and hoped more outstanding scientific and technological achievements could be industrialized in Shaanxi.