On September 8, the National Natural Science Foundation of China announced the results of its 2022 application project review, and the three projects submitted by the Photonic Nose and Molecular Materials Group were funded.

Prof. Fang Yu’s Project of “Chemistry +” Science Education Activity Design and Practice in the Science Communication category was funded for special projects, with a direct funding of 150,000 yuan; Researcher Liu Kaiqiang’s project of Dynamic Covalent Chemistry in the Construction of Reversible Shear Hard Gel was funded for the general project, with a direct funding of 540,000 yuan; and Prof. Peng Haonan’s project of Investigations on the Structural Bases of the Energy-Transfer and Mass-Transfer Processes in Film-based Fluorescence Sensing was funded by in general project, with a direct funding of 540,000 yuan.