(1997-2002, Selected)
- “Towards Low Temperature: Unconventional Synthesis of Solid-State Metal Chalcogenides”, The 12th International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements, Saint-Malo, France, April 22-25, 1997.
- “Investigation of Novel Solid-State Inorganic Materials”, Department of Chemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, December 18, 1997.
- “Low Temperature Approach: Crystal Growth of Metal Chalcogenides via Solvothermal Reactions”, The 2nd Conference for Worldwide Chinese Young Chemists, Kowloon, Hong Kong, December 20-23, 1997.
- “Building Coordination Framework Structures in Superheated Water”, The 1998 Solid-State Gordon Research Conference, Colby Sawyer, NH, July 26-31, 1998.
- “Solvothermal Approach towards Synthesis of Novel Extended Structures”, The 1998 Summer Course “Design and Assembly of Molecules and Networks: New Shapes and Functions”, Madrid, Spain, August 24-28, 1998.
- “From Molecular Building Blocks To Extended Structures”, The XXXIII International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Florence, Italy, August 30-September 4, 1998.
- “The Power of Superheated Fluids: Structures and Properties of Novel Chalcogenides from Ethylendiame Medium”, The Materials Research Society 1998 Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 30-December 4, 1998.
- “The Power of Solvothermal Synthesis: Building Novel Extended Structures in Superheated Fluids”, University of Virginia, VA, March 26, 1999.
- “Useful Tools toward Rational Synthesis of New Materials”, International Conference on Rational Approaches to New Materials Design and Synthesis, Philadelphia, PA, May 20-21, 1999.
- “From Solid State Compounds To Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials: Building Novel Extended Structures in Superheated Fluids”, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China, June 10, 1999.
- “From Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials to Solid State Compounds: Building Novel 1D, 2D and 3D Structures in Superheated Fluids”, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China, June 11, 1999.
- “New Materials from Superheated Fluids”, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, December 1, 1999.
- “New Materials from Superheated Media”, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, December 10, 1999.
- “Novel Compounds via Novel Synthetic Routes”, International Huaxia Symposium on Inorganic Solid State Chemistry and Synthetic Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, P.R. China, March 31-April 6, 2000.
- “The Chemistry of Coordination Polymers of 1D, 2D and 3D Structures”, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China, April 6, 2000.
- “The Chemistry of Some Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials with Extended Structures”, University of South Florida, June 26, 2000.
- “Hybrid Composites Based on II-IV Semiconductors: A New Class of Nanostructures that May Lead to Better Performance”, Chemistry Seminar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, November 7, 2000.
- “The Chemistry of Hybrid Chalcogenides: Materials that Are Both Fundamentally and Technologically Important”, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, November 14, 2000.
- “Hybrid Composites Based on II-IV Semiconductors: A New Class of Nanostructures that May Lead to Better Performance”, Fall 2000 MRS Meeting, Boston, MA, November 29 - December 1, 2000.
- “Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Composites Based on II-VI Semiconductors: A New Class of Nanostructures that May Lead to Better Performance”, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, January 11, 2001.
- “Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Composites Containing MQ II-VI Slabs: A New Class of Nanostructures with Strong Quantum Confinement and Periodic Arrangement ”, Surface Seminar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, February 15, 2001.
- “Hybrid Composites Based on II-VI Semiconductors: A New Class of Nanostructures with Strong Quantum Confinement and Periodic Structures”, Yale University, New Haven, CT, December 21, 2001.
- “RPM-1: A Recyclable Nanoporous Metal-Organic Zeolite Analogue”, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, January 15, 2002.
- “A New Class of Nanostructures: Periodically Ordered Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Networks Exhibiting Strong Quantum Confinement”, Spring 2002 MRS Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2, 2002.
- “Hybrid Semiconductors: Periodic Nanostructures Exhibiting Strong Quantum Confinement and Tunable Properties”, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Hunter College and the Graduate School, New York, NY, April 26, 2002.
- “Hybrid Nanocomposite Materials: Design, Synthesis, Structures and Properties”, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 21, 2002.