Prof Bingyang Cao attended ICMNF2016 (International Conference of Microfluidics, Nanofluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip, Dalian, China, June 10~12 of 2016) and gave an invited talk on "Rotational diffusion and orientation of nanoparticles in fluids". Dr Jianfei Xie orally presented his recent research on "Effect of the fluid-wall interactions on the fluid flow in nanochannels with permeable walls".