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Winner of the 2026 Tang Youqi Award
Zhongfan Liu1,2, Chunying Chen3, Xuesi Chen4
1College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
|October 27, 2026
Abstract:
Professor Tang Youqi was a distinguished Chinese physical chemist and educator and one of the pioneers of structural chemistry and crystal chemistry in China [...].
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