Recently, great progress has been made in constructing covalent organic framework based on flexible crown ether by the research group of Professor Liu Honglai of ECUST, and the related research article was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed under the title of “Construction of Covalent Organic Frames with Crown Ether Struts”.

This article is first-authored by An Shuhao, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, and corresponding-authored by Professor Liu Honglai, co-corresponding-authored by Xu Qing, Associate Researcher of Shanghai Institute of Advanced Studies, and Zhai Lipeng, a young teacher of Zhongyuan Institute of Technology. The research has been funded by Major Research Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Science Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc., and have received a lot of help from Professor Peng Changjun and Professor Hu Jun of ECUST.