During this “Fifth International Symposium on Aggregation-induced Emission and Long Feng Science Forum”, I was so fortunate that I attended the lectures by US National Academy of Sciences member Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore of University of Illinois, Prof. Liu Bin of National University of Singapore, and “Father of AIE” CAS academician Prof. Tang Benzhong, whose unique and profound understandings are beyond my reach in my daily literature reading. As the saying goes, “Listening to a wise man’s words is better than reading a book for ten years”, and I really benefited a lot from my first attending an academic conference.

First, the main session reports of the conference talked about the development prospects and the light emitting mechanism of Aggregation-induced Emission (AIE) materials, and the development trend of AIE studies. This is closely related to my current research in clustered luminescence, and enabled me to obtain a more comprehensive and deeper understanding from the design of cross-space conjugate mechanism to the preparation of luminescent materials, and then to the application of OLED devices.

Secondly, as this was my first poster presentation and my preparation was not so neat and thorough, unfortunately I did not win any award. But it is worth mentioning that during poster display, I was so excited to meet some students of Prof. Tang, so I seize the opportunity to have an in-depth discussion with them, asking them about the puzzles I had from reading their work, as I learned from my literature reading that their group not only focused on aggregation-induced emission materials, but also made breakthroughs in the field of crystal engineering such as molecular eutectics.

In short, the road of scientific research is obstructive and long; work on unremittingly and the future can be expected.