Source: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Written by: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

The 17th International Symposium on Advances in Extraction Technologies (ExTech2015) has been held in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), from Nov. 7th to Nov. 11th, 2015. More than 200 experts from China, Canada, Australia, Poland, Greece, Slovak, Singapore, Iran, Malaysia, Thailand and etc., attended the symposium. The attendees comprised not only experts from various prestigious universities and research institutes, but also distinguished guests including Prof. Janusz Pawliszyn and Prof. Chris Le, fellows of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, Prof. Guibin Jiang, Prof. Jincai Zhao, Prof. Yukui Zhang and Prof. Xiaoming Chen, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The symposium was organized by the Guangdong Chemical Society, the Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Innovation and Talent Introduction Base of Photoelectronic and Functional Molecular Solid Materials of SYSU, and the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of SYSU. Prof. Chunxia Wang, director of Analytical Chemistry of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Prof. Qiankun Zhuang, director of Environmental Chemistry of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ms. Chunqing Zeng, the vice president of the Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology, and Ms. Xiaohong Gu, secretary of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of SYSU, attended the opening ceremony. Prof. Xiaoming Chen, Prof. Guibin Jiang, and Prof. Janusz Pawliszyn, delivered speeches at the opening ceremony. 
 

Conference Photo at the Front of the Building of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, SYSU
 

The international symposium received over 130 abstracts. 68 oral reports and 75 posters on scientific advances were presented by experts and young scientists on the symposium. Prof. Janusz Pawliszyn, Prof. Chris Le, Prof. Yukui Zhang, and Prof. Hian Kee Lee, the editor of Journal of Chromatography A, Prof. Jianhua Wang, the vice president of Northeastern University and the associate editor of Talanta, and Prof. Bogus?aw Buszewski gave invited plenary speeches.
 

Plenary Speeches on the Symposium
(First row: left Prof. Chris Le, right Prof. Janusz Pawliszyn; second row: left Prof. Yukui Zhang, right Prof. Hian Kee Lee; third row: left Prof. Jianhua Wang, right Prof. Bogus?aw Buszewski)
 

The symposium was kindly sponsored by XTrust Instruments, Agilent, Sigma-Aldrich, Tegent, ThermoFisher, Elsevier, Reeko, Zygen, Merck Millipore, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.