At the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Prof. LIN Wenbin from the University of North Carolina (UNC), USA, visited Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) on July 7，2010. During his stay, Prof. LIN delivered a seminar report entitled “Hybrid Materials at the Nanoscale: from Asymmetric Catalysis to Nanomedicine” and carried out detailed discussion with the research staff of FJIRSM.

Prof. Lin is now one of the overseas evaluation experts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his B.S degree in Chemical Physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1988 and his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1994. Thereafter, he was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, and joined the faculty at Brandeis University in 1997. He moved to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and was promoted to associate and full professor in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Prof. Lin’s research interests include Supramolecular functional materials, chiral catalysis, chemical drug design. So far Prof. Lin has published over 100 research papers on some famous scientific journals including Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. and J. Am. Chem. Soc.