From January 23 to 25, 2026, faculty of the Institute of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials at Shaanxi Normal University including Prof. Fang Yu, Prof. Ding Liping, Prof. Liu Jing, Prof. Liu Kaiqiang, Prof. Bian Hongtao, Prof. Peng Junxia,Prof. Peng Haonan, Prof. Liu Taihong, Assoc. Prof. Miao Rong, Assoc. Prof. Liu Xiaoyan, Assoc. Prof. Liu Zhongshan, and Lecturer Zhao Zhihao, participated in the 8th Young Scholars Forum on Colloid and Interface Chemistry held in Lintong District, Xi’an.

Fang Yu presented certificates to young scholars honored with the “RSC Applied Interfaces Young Scientist Award” at the opening ceremony. Bian Hongtao and Miao Rong presented reports titled “Ultrafast Spectroscopic Studies on Ion Interface Adsorption and Selective Recognition” and “Fluorescent Probes for Soft Interfaces”, respectively.

At the closing ceremony, Fang Yu offered suggestions for organizing the next conference and expressed his expectations for young talents in the field of colloid and interface chemistry in his concluding remarks.

This forum is hosted by the Colloid and Interface Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, and co-organized by Xi’an Jiaotong University Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials, and the SNNU and XJTU Institute of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials.