How time flies. It was like just a blink of the eye, yet it is almost the end of my three years’ study as a master’s candidate. For a moment, I was too immersed in parting sentiment to bid farewell.

The “PengPeng’s” --- this somewhat naughty and intimate term always brings me back to the lab 1606 in Zhizhi Building. The parent-like care, support and instruction from my advisor Ms Peng Junxia made the memories even dearer. When I first met her in her office, she told me to communicate more and learn to cooperate with others. I can still feel the sincerity and earnest when I learned the importance of this later on.

In life, she often remind us to eat on time and be careful with self-protection during the COVID-19 pandemic, which makes us feel the warmth of home.

In research, she is always strict with us, teaching us in every step from experiment design, experiment operation to result analysis in a hands-on approach. What impressed me most is that she told me I run the TLC plate incorrectly and showed me the right procedures, when I did the synthesis experiment for the first time. At another time, she showed me how to make a sample with the scanning electron microscope. These moments are still vivid in my mind when I recall them now.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ms Peng for her guidance and you are always the guiding star on my career path. I sincerely wish you good health, successful work and happy family. In the meanwhile, I would like to wish happiness and health to my junior fellow students Xuxu and Qiqi.

I am fortunate that my application for a Chinese Scholarship Council-sponsored PhD program at University of Toulouse, France has been approved. My thanks go to Ms Peng, my alma mater, MOE and CSC, Fang group teachers and my fellow schoolmates for their help, trust, support and companionship. Last but not the least, allow me to congratulate Prof. Fang Yu again for being elected a CAS academician. I am so privileged to be one of your students.