From August 29th to September 1st, 2018, Prof. Zhen Liu attended the 25th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation Techniques (ITP2018) held in Kyoto, Japan, and delivered a keynote talk entitled "Functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles for high-specificity sample enrichment, high-performance labeling and high-efficiency separation of biomolecules".