Recently, the probe and chemical biology team from GXU School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering made a major breakthrough in mechanosensitive fluorescence lifetime probes. The research finding, titled 'Mechanosensitive fluorescence lifetime probes for investigating the dynamic mechanism of ferroptosis', was published in the top-tier international comprehensive journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The first author of this paper is Liang Xing, a Phd student from GXU School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. And the corresponding author is Professor Lin Weiying. Guangxi University is the first corresponding unit of this paper.

It is reported that PNAS, on par with Cell, Nature, and Science, is one of the most frequently cited interdisciplinary publications.