Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences Prof. Amirla Prasanna de Silva of Queen’s University, Northern Ireland, UK, was invited to teach an academic lecture course titled “Fluorescent Signalling and Molecular Logic Symbol Systems” for teachers and students of the Institute of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials.

Prof. AP de Silva firstly introduced the principle of fluorescence and the application of PET design sensing, and explained the fluorescent sensors for selective detection of sodium and potassium ions. He also shared the knowledge of molecular logic systems, in which relevant information is collected and processed through simple logic gates derived from a variety of effective types of molecular logic, and corresponding molecular logic systems are built, so as to realize the precise sensing of the target molecules.

The course, hosted by INCSMM vice dean Prof. Liping Ding, was attended by teachers and more than 40 postgraduates from the Institute and the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, who exchanged ideas and discussed with Prof. AP de Silva.