1. 會議經過及議程

2021年「5th ACS Taiwan Chapter Graduate Student Conference」5月1日於淡江大學守謙國際會議中心舉辦，由美國化學會臺灣分會主辦，中國化學會及本校化學系陳志欣和潘伯申教授承辦。前四次論壇都在臺大舉辦，此為第一次在移師到淡江舉行，原本是在去年2020年就要舉辦此會議，但因為疫情影響延後一年，很感謝政府完善的防疫工作使本活動能順利進行。這次會議吸引全台各大學一百多位學生參與交流與分享。會議於早上 8:30 開始報到，9:00 先由陳志欣教授開場，介紹此會議的源由和目的，並說明此次會議的進行流程及相關資訊。緊接著台大化學系邱靜雯教授藉此研究生的場合介紹科技部「自然科學與永續研究圖書服務計畫」的內容，藉此讓化學領域的研究生能得知科技部提供的研究輔助資源。9:10 開始，研討會分為有機化學、無機化學、分析化學及物化與材料化學四組同時進行，10:30~11:00 為茶敘及拍團體照時間，接著繼續分組演講到中午 12:20 用餐，13:10~15:00 持續進行分組演講及壁報發表的2分鐘短講，接著在 15:00~15:45 為壁報發表和茶敘時間。研究生報告都結束之後，各組評審老師開會討論最後成績，同時大會在 15:45~17:20 安排三場非研究性質且跟研究生生涯規劃有關的專題演講，其中第一場iGroup Taiwan的講題為:「噓！你知道就好 #擺脫學術菜味的秘密武器 #加速學術傳播的超神密技」；第二場台大化學系陳浩銘教授的講題為: 「本土博士的教職路」；第三場台灣微質體公司曾雲龍博士的講題為: 「How a chemist became a drug developer」。 17:20開始為頒獎時間，四組分開評分，一共頒出37個獎項及獎金給參加報告的研究生，研討會約於 18:00 結束。詳細議程附加如後。

2. 國外講員其他演講行程

此次會議以全英文進行，吸引近30位外籍研究生報名，除了台灣之外，外籍學生國籍包含印度、印尼、菲律賓、衣索匹亞、巴基斯坦、汶萊等國，分別來自15個不同的研究單位，國際交流成果豐碩。

3. 重要收獲及心得

美國化學會臺灣分會研究生研討會的會議特色為全英文、全學生報告，希望提供台灣化學相關領域研究生一個交流和學習的平台。研究生在台灣較少有用英文報告訓練自己口條及臨場反應的機會，舉辦此會議可以讓學生在不用出國的狀況下就可以有屬於自己的舞台，相信在疫情影響國際交流的這兩年更是難得的機會。會後的問卷學生普遍反應很好，國立陽明交大博二張宇瑄表示，最深刻的是可以與外國生交流學習到不同東西，坦言在論壇中遇到不少外國學生感到意外，還以為因疫情關係只有臺灣學生。海洋大學海洋生物科技三成嘉則說到：「最大收穫是聽了相關演講，對於日後實驗很有幫助。」另外，國立成功大

學光電系博一謝子駿覺得論壇間安排很好，在演講中觀摩到其他人演講的敘述方式。遠道而來的國立台東大學生命科學碩士生徐建恩提出，雖然不是學習化學相關，但還是在會議中學習到不少知識，覺得很充實。

4. 研究領域未來發展方向

此次舉辦之研討會為綜合性的研究生研討會，沒有限定特定領域的研究，好處是可以讓學生一次聽到多個領域的研究，對未來新研究方向的探索更有幫助。在目前疫情的影響之下無法出國，但我們長期的發展方向是利用美國化學會在全世界各地都有分會的資源，日後能舉辦國際性的研究生研討會，邀請國外的研究生參加，讓本地研究生在學習過程有更多科學與文化交流，以刺激對化學研究的思考和判斷。

5. 建議

感謝科技部自然司化學研究推動中心的經費補助，讓我們可以完成這項任務。這次會議籌辦過程順利，報名踴躍，參加的研究生比預期的多，導致場地的座位有些不夠的現象，相信日後此類以研究生為主的研討會能吸引更多人報名，以達推動化學研究交流的目的。但目前大學租借場地都會對外收費，租借大的場地必定會增加會議進行的預算，此類研究生會議的報名費無法收得太高，這次只對報名者收取500元報名費，報名費收入只占會議總預算的約25%，建議以後能學生會議多些經費補助，以嘉惠更多化學領域的研究生學習。

2021 The 5th ACS Taiwan Chapter Graduate Student Conference 成果報告

教師增能工作坊—帶領學生必備：個人策略規劃與提問的四重練習成果報告

The 4^th ACS Taiwan Chapter Graduate Student Conference

May 04 2019 at Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University

Organizer:

ACS Taiwan Chapter

Co-organizers:

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University

Chinese Chemical Society located at Taipei

Organizing Committee:

Prof. Jye-Shan Yang (Chair, National Taiwan University)

Prof. Ching-Wen Chiu (Co-Chair, National Taiwan University)

Ms. Michelle Liu (Conference secretary, National Taiwan University)

Sponsors:

ACS Committee on International Activities

ACS Chemical Abstract Service

ACS Publications Division

iGroup Taiwan

Chitec Technology Co., LTD

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University

Award Selection Committee:

Physical Chemistry Division

Prof. Yuan-Chung Cheng (National Taiwan University)

Prof. Liang-Yan Hsu (Academia Sinica)

Prof. Ming-Kang Tsai (National Taiwan Normal University)

Organic Chemistry Division

Prof. Tahsin J. Chow (Academia Sinica)

Prof. Tsung-Shing Wang (National Taiwan University)

Prof. Po-Shen Pan (Tamkang University)

Analytical and Bio Chemistry Division

Prof. Wei-Ssu Liao (National Taiwan University)

Prof. Chih-Hsin Chen (Tamkang University)

Prof. Jie-Ren Li (National Dong-Hwa University)

Inorganic Chemistry Division

Prof. Kien Voon Kong (National Taiwan University)

Prof. Po-Heng Lin (National Chung Hsing University)

Prof. Yi-Hsin Liu (National Taiwan Normal University)

Statistics:

99 students, 14 professors, 4 representatives of sponsors

Description:

The annual ACS Taiwan Chapter Graduate Student Conference was held on the first Saturday of May, May 4^th 2019. Every year, students from all chemical institutions in Taiwan gathered at the Graduate Student Conference to share their research progresses with each other in English. The ultimate goal of the conference is to encourage collaboration and to promote chemical research in Taiwan. This year, 89 student participants attended the conference and dedicated 35 oral presentations and 45 posters. To motivate and encourage students, we have also invited 12 professors from 6 research institutions to evaluate student performance on scientific presentation of their research accomplishment.

The opening remarks delivered by Prof. Jye-Shane Yang kick-started the conference at 8:50 am. Then, four parallel sections on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Physical Chemistry began at 9:00 am. Each student was requested to present their own research in 20 minutes with a 5-minute Q&A section included. In addition to oral presentation, two poster/coffee break sections allow students to communicate in a more relaxed environment. This year, three educational plenary lectures were delivered. The first plenary lecture entitled “全新人工智慧資料庫: Scifiner^N” given by Dr. Chuan-Che Liu from CAS introduced the new generation database search engine, Scifiner^N, which is able to propose potential synthetic routes through data mining. The second plenary lecture sponsored by Citex was delivered by Mr. Dean Wang, and the title of the talk is “Emergency Response for Chemical Accident in Laboratory”. This lecture focused on how to minimize chemical damage on the human body in a laboratory accident. The last plenary lecture on “Scientific English Writing” by Dr. Kevin Kau from the Academic Writing Education Center at NTU taught students how to utilize a simple guideline to prepare a report in English. Dr. Kau also talked about some common mistakes that Taiwanese students tend to make in English writing.

The award ceremony was scheduled after the plenary lecture of Dr. Kau. The referees selected 8 Outstanding Oral and Poster Presenters, 16 Excellent Oral and Poster Presenters, 20 Selected Presenters, and 3 Most Popular Poster Presenters. Every awardee received an Award Certificate from the ACS Taiwan Chapter. Finally, Prof. Yang and Prof. Chiu gave the closing remarks to conclude the successful conference.

Program:

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2019 ACS President-Elect Prof. Lous Echegoyen visits ACS Taiwan Chapter

The 2019 ACS President-Elect Prof. Louis Echegoyen and his former postdoc Prof. Chia-Hsiang Chen came visit ACSTC on Nov 16. A welcome dinner hosted by ACSTC was attended by committee members Jye-Shane, Tahsin, I-Jy, Chih-Hsin, Po-Shen, Ching-Wen, and Wei-Ssu. Prof. Echegoyen also delivered a scientific talk entitled “Buckyball Maracas: New Enjohedral Fullerene Structures, Reactivity, and Supramolecular Interactions” at NTU-Chem at 15:30.

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The 3^rd ACS Taiwan Chapter Graduate Student Conference

May 05 2018 at Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University

Organizer:

ACS Taiwan Chapter

Co-organizers:

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University

Chinese Chemical Society located at Taipei

Organizing Committee:

Prof. Jye-Shan Yang (Chair, National Taiwan University)

Prof. Ching-Wen Chiu (Co-Chair, National Taiwan University)

Ms. Michelle Liu (Conference secretary, National Taiwan University)

Sponsors:

ACS Chemical Abstracts Service

ACS Publications Division

iGroup Taiwan

Eternal Materials

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University

Award Selection Committee:

Physical Chemistry Division

Prof. Yuan-Chung Cheng (National Taiwan University)

Prof. Liang-Yan Hsu (Academia Sinica)

Prof. Ming-Kang Tsai (National Taiwan Normal University)

Organic Chemistry Division

Prof. Teruo Shinmyozu (National Taiwan University)

Prof. Shih-Sheng Sun (Academia Sinica)

Prof. Po-Shen Pan (Tamkang University)

Analytical and Bio Chemistry Division

Prof. Wei-Ssu Liao (National Taiwan University)

Prof. Chih-Hsin Chen (Tamkang University)

Prof. Chang-Kang Chiang (National Dong-Hwa University)

Inorganic Chemistry Division

Prof. Kien Voon Kong (National Taiwan University)

Prof. Po-Heng Lin (National Chung Hsing University)

Prof. Yi-Hsin Liu (National Taiwan Normal University)

Statistics:

89 students, 17 professors, 3 representatives of sponsors

Description:

The annual ACS Taiwan Chapter Graduate Student Conference was held on May 5^th 2018, the first Saturday of May. The purpose of the conference is to provide a platform for graduate students from chemical science-related departments or research institutions to practice scientific presentation in English, to encourage collaboration, and to promote chemical research in Taiwan. This year, 89 student participants from 13 universities attended the conference and dedicated 36 oral presentations and 41 posters. To motivate and encourage students, we have also invited 12 professors from 6 research institutions to evaluate student performance on scientific presentation of their research accomplishment.

After the opening remarks by Prof. Jye-Shane Yang, the scientific program began at 9:30 am. 36 students were divided into four parallel sections according to their field of study. Each oral presentation includes 15 minutes of talk and 5 minutes of Q&A. Besides, two one-hour poster sections were combined with the morning and afternoon coffee breaks to foster more relaxed environment for communications. Afterward, two educational plenary lectures were delivered. The 30 minutes lecture from ACS Chemical Abstracts Service on “作研究，不要再靠Google” taught students how to effectively utilize the database. One the other hand, Dr. Marc Anthony from the Academic Writing Education Center at NTU delivered a 90-minutes lecture entitled “From Paper to Podium: Communicative Strategies for Publication and Presentation”. In this lecture, Dr. Anthony summarized presentation strategies that keep the audience engaged, and listed some common mistakes that unattractive speakers tend to make. This lecture is so successful that we had to interrupt the Q&A section to keep the conference on schedule.

The award ceremony was scheduled after the plenary lecture of Dr. Anthony. The referees selected 4 Outstanding Oral Presenters, 8 Excellent Oral Presenters, 4 Outstanding Poster Presenters, and 7 Excellent Poster Presenters out of the 77 student participants. Every awardee received an Award Certificate and gift voucher provided by ACS Taiwan Chapter. In addition, ACS Chemical Abstracts Service also sponsored gifts for 3 Most Popular Posters, which were determined by student voting. Finally, Prof. Yang and Prof. Chiu gave the closing remarks to conclude the successful conference.

In addition to the regular one-day program of the graduate student conference, a special workshop entitled “Chemistry to Multidisciplinary Knowledge: to curate-engage-influence” was held in the afternoon of May 4^th at NTU to kick-start the event. Dr. Woei Fuh Wong, the general manager of consulting of iGroup Singapore, helped students walk through and practice the logic of scientific presentation in this three-hours workshop. In this workshop, students not only listened to the lecture of Dr. Wong, but also got the chance to exercise how to introduce their own research to a wide spectrum of audiences. At the end of the workshop, students were asked to utilize those concepts in designing an eye-catching poster to advertise their research. Since there were only 12 participants, everyone gets the chance to interact with Dr. Wong. Students’ responses to the workshop are all very positive. Therefore, if possible, such pre-conference workshop should be continued next year.

Program & Photos

by Tun-Cheng Chien

After the successful student conference last year, 2017 The Second ACS Taiwan Chapter Graduate Student Conference was continued as a tradition of the ACS Tai- wan chapter and was co-organized by Chemical Society Located in Taipei (CSLT), and Departments of Chemistry of both National Taiwan University (NTU) and National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). The organizing committee was headed by Chair- person  Professor  Jye-Shane  Yang  (NTU)  and  composed  by  Professors  Tun-Cheng Chien (NTNU), Tsung‐Shing A. Wang (NTU, coordinator for org. chem.), Yi‐Hsin Liu (NTNU, coordinator for inorg. chem.), I‐Ren Lee (NTNU, coordinator for phys. chem.) and Wei‐Ssu Liao (NTU, coordinator for anal. chem.). The conference was held at Department of Chemistry, NTU in Taipei on Sunday May 7, 2017.

The conference was hosted and organized by junior faculty volunteers who also offered the opportunity as scientific mentors and carrier counselors for student participants. The objective of the conference was to provide a forum to bring together outstanding young scholars to practice scientific writing and presentation skills, to promote chemistry research in related areas, and to enhance collaboration. The participants were limited to graduate students from chemical science-related departments or institutes in Taiwan. A total numbers of forty two students submitted the abstracts to participate oral and poster presentations and student volunteers and audiences from NTU and NTNU registered to attend the conference. In addition, the organizing committee invited 12 enthusiastic young scholars/professors to serve as referees and commentators for the students’ presentations to invigorate the conference.

The student conference started with the opening remarks delivered by Prof. J.-S. Yang to welcome all the participants and addressed the establishment and mission of the ACS Taiwan Chapter. Prof. T.-C. Chien introduced all the referees to the audience and explained the guidelines for all the presenters. The conference was held in three parallel sections. Nevertheless, a wide diversity of scientific contents of the interdis- ciplinary chemistry was involved in the conference.

The oral presentations were limited to 15 minutes with additional 3 minutes for taking questions and answering. Twenty five students participated the oral presentation to deliver the speeches in English. Meanwhile, all the poster presenters were requested to make a one-minute quick talk in English with non-stop slideshow to briefly describe the poster contents. Afterwards, the poster section was held in the atrium and seventeen posters were displayed with heated discussions lasted till the end of the session.

Prior to the poster section/coffee break, an industrial section was sponsored by Everlight Chemical Industrial Corp. and was presented by Dr. Wen-Jeng Chen, Head of R&D Center. Everlight Chemical is the leading industrial manufacturer specialized in color/dye chemicals in Taiwan. Meanwhile, they have broad product lines in various specialty chemicals including pharmaceutical and electronic materials. Dr. Chen in- troduced the general situation and prospect of the company and his precious expe- rience in the industrial R&D to the students. The industrial presentation received broad attention from student audience.

After the scientific program completed, all the participants were invited to at- tend two special talks before the award ceremony. The first invited talk was the key- note speech sponsored by iGroup Taiwan and was delivered by Dr. Wei-Yan Miguel Li, Director of Academic Writing Education Center, NTU. The title of Dr. Li’s speech was “Present Your Academic Research Creatively”. She summarized the common mistakes and provided general strategies in scientific presentation based on her teaching ex- perience with Science-majored students. Dr. Li prepared a handout for the students and kindly offered her powerpoint file to the participants. The non-scientific presen- tation has successfully attracted the students’ interest and was great helpful to all the participants.

The conference organized a special lecture given by the recipient of 2016 Excel- lent Oral Presentation Award, Mr. Wei-Chun Liu. Mr. Liu is currently a M.S. student in the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei. He shared his first attendance to the ACS national meeting with vivid slide shows. His trip to San Fran- cisco meeting was partially sponsored by ACS Taiwan Chapter.

The award ceremony was scheduled at the end of the conference day. A total number of 15 oral presenters were selected for Excellent Oral Presentation and 5 poster presenters were selected for Excellent Poster Presentations. All the awardees received the Award Certificates and gift vouchers sponsored by ACS Taiwan. Finally, Prof. Yang gave the closing remarks to conclude the successful conference.

The ACS Taiwan Chapter initiated the student conference for the students to experience the English-speaking scientific program. The one-day conference was overall successful and will be continuously held annually. The next conference is pro- jected to be held in the first weekend of May, 2018 and we look forward to more graduate students and faculty to participate the event.

Acknowledgment

The organizing committee would like to acknowledge the generous financial supports from ACS Committee on International Activities, ACS Chemical Abstracts Service, Everlight Chemical Industrial Co., iGroup Taiwan, and Bruker Taiwan Co., Ltd., as well as the continuous assistance and support from CSLT, NTU and NTNU.

2016/10/17 (Mon) ~ 21 (Fri)

by Gigi Wu and Tun-Cheng Chien

The 2016 Chemistry Week at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) was organized by the Student Association of Department of Chemistry, NTNU and sponsored by Departments of Chemistry, NTNU and the ACS Taiwan Chapter. The objective of the Chemistry Week was to build awareness of chemistry and promote the value of chemistry in everyday life. The event was supervised by Professor Yi-Hsin Liu (Dept of Chemistry, NTNU) and was projected to demonstrate interesting chemical reactions and provide fundamental chemistry knowledge to gather the science en thusiasts, especially non-science majored students, on campus.

The main theme of the 2016 Chemistry Week was Chemistry Secrete Investigation and was held in the week of 2016/10/17 (Mon)~21 (Fri) at the atrium of Cheng Zheng building at the main campus of NTNU. 25 chemistry-majored students (fresh- man and sophomore years) participated as volunteered staffs to help organize the event and prepare the demonstration and approximately 200 students have stopped by and visited our booth during the week.

Personnel allocation:

Five simple experiments were demonstrated in the event. The experiments are summarized below:

I.DIY Fingerprint developer

Ninhydrin is often used as a stain for developing TLC in the organic laboratory to identify primary and secondary amines. Since it was first used for developing latent fingerprints in 1954, ninhydrin has also become the most common method used to reveal prints on porous surfaces. Nearly all forensics labs use ninhydrin for this purpose. Ninhydrin is cheap, sensitive, and commercially available in disposable spray cans. The developed print is high-contrast purple that is readily visible on most paper backgrounds.         This experiment usually takes about 30 minutes for color development. The procedures include:

1. Fill sprayer with 10% Ninhydrin alcohol solution.
2. Leave fingerprint on a piece of paper.
3. Spray Ninhydrin alcohol solution on the fingerprint.
4. Stick the tape onto the position of fingerprint.
5. Wait for minutes, and the fingerprint appears.

The chemistry behind the experiment can be summarized as the following reactions:

The visitors pressed their fingerprints on paper, and then used ninhydrin to get their own fingerprint development. This reaction really surprised a lot of visitors. Hence, we have the opportunities to introduce this interesting experiment and the principle to more people.

Ninhydrin solution can react with primary and secondary amines. After touching the solution, the fingertips turned purple.

II. Redox Indicator

Redox indicators change their colors at specific potential differences. Indicator compounds must have a reduced and oxidized form with different colors, and the redox process must be reversible.

In experiment A, a ‘blue bottle’ experiment was demonstrated. An alkaline solution of glucose acts as a reducing agent and reduces added methylene blue from a blue to a colorless form. Shaking the solution raises the concentration of oxygen in the mixture and this oxidizes the methylene blue back to its blue form. When the dissolved oxygen has been consumed, the methylene blue is slowly reduced back to its colorless form by the remaining glucose, and the cycle can be repeated many times by further shaking. The cycle can be repeated many times.

In experiment B, indigo carmine was used to replace methylene blue in experiment A. Indigo carmine is very cheap, safe, easily obtained and produces a range of stunning colors. The basic principle is the same as experiment A. However, indigo carmine changes colour from yellow to red, and then to green. These demonstrations can be used to support teaching of redox chemistry, and illustrating aspects of color chemistry.

These experiments take approximately 10-15 minutes. We took the opportunity to explain the roles of oxygen and glucose in the experiments, in which glucose serves as a reducing agent, and oxygen serves as an oxidizing agent.

Blue bottle reaction:

Figure 2. From left to right: Blue bottles: oxidized form and reduced form of methylene blue solution; Traffic Lights: reduced form, the first oxidized form and the second oxidized form of indigo carmine solution

III. Acid-base indicator

Red cabbage contains pigments called anthocyanins which display the purplish color of the red cabbage and become a perfect nature indicator for acid and base. In this experiment, we applied the red cabbage extract as the acid-base indicator in various solutions in different pH, and then observed the changes of color.

Reference:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemsea/experiments.php?exp_n=1

IV. DIY Slime

A solution of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) can be made into slime by adding borax solution, which creates crosslinks between polymer chains. In this activity, some interesting properties of the slime are investigated. Visitors were delighted to make the slime in different ratio of borax and polyvinyl alcohol by themselves and glad to understand what happened about this malleable and elastic plaything.

Reference:

http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resource/res00000756/pva-polymer-slime

Summary and future perspectives

With the assistance from department faculty and senior students, the staffs were able to conduct the activities successfully. Students in the NTNU main campus are non-Science majored students, mostly from the area of Literature, Social Sciences, Education and Business Management. It is a great opportunity for us to promote the awareness and the knowledge of Chemistry in this special circumstance. Both visitors and the staffs learned lessons from this activity. Especially, the visitors can get hang-on experiences and saw demonstration and explanation of the background knowledge. For us, the staffs, we learned about not only how to cooperate with each other but how to represent clear demonstration. People willing to become teachers in the future can improve their teaching and experimental skills at the same time. We look forward to the same activity next year. All the experience gained in this year would be great beneficial to improve the activity next time.

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