The team led by Prof. Liu Zhibo and Prof. Tian Jianguo of Nankai University, in collaboration with the team led by Zhang Jinying of Xi’an Jiaotong University, has made important progress in the field of optoelectronic study of strained two-dimensional materials. The strong flexo-photovoltaic effect in violet phosphorene nanosheets was successfully induced by applying strain usingthe boron nitride nano-edges. The related results were published in the top international journal ACS Nano, entitled “
Recently, the latest research progress made by the team of Xiaodan Zhang and YingZhao, professors at Nankai University’s State Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Materials and Cells, in the field of artificial photosynthesis based on solar cells, was published in Joule, a world-renowned academic journal. Based on the solar cell-driven carbon dioxide electrochemical reduction system, the team achieved record energy conversion efficiency of 14.3% for solar-to-formate.The rapid deactivation resulting f
Recently, the final of the 15thChinese Mathematics Competition for College Students washeld in Shandong University. Twelve students from Nankai University’s School of Mathematical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, College of Cyber Science, Nankai Business School and the School of Economics were shortlisted for the final and won a total of 5 first prizes, 5 second prizes, and 2 third prizes.The Chinese Mathematics Competition for College Students is a national high-level discipline competition orien
Recently, the team led by Professor Chen Shuqi and Professor Cheng Hua from Nankai University has made important progress in breaking the mirror symmetry of sound vortex transmission. Based on the orbital angular momentum (OAM) diffraction law of acoustic phase gradient metagratings (PGM), a new mechanism for transmission phase control is put forward, and a single metasurface is used to break the mirror symmetry of sound vortex transmission in a reciprocal acoustic system for the first time. The
Recently, the 2023 Tianjin Science and Technology Award was officially announced. Twentyscientific research achievementsof Nankai University were awarded. Eleven were completed with Nankai University being the first affiliation, including one grandprize for scientific and technological progress, one grandprize for technological invention, twofirst prizes for natural science, one second prize for technological invention, and threesecond prizes for natural science and scientific and technological
Collective cells are an important active mattersystem, and their ordered migration plays a key role in life processes such as embryonic development, tissue morphogenesis, and cancer invasion. Under normal physiological conditions, collective cells are often in a confined spatial environment, which regulate the dynamic spatiotemporal evolution of collective cell behavior from thetop down, thusaffectingthe differentiation and fate of cell tissues. Nowadays, emerging technologies represented by pho
The 2024 International Symposium on Electrocatalysis and Electrosynthesis of the Chinese Chemical Society was held in Tianjin on March 29-31. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Electrochemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society and Nankai University, and organized by the eScience Editorial Office, the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Power Sources, the Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry of the Ministry of Education, and the Engineering Research Center of Ef
The first “China Collegiate Computing Contest - AIGC Innovation Competition”, sponsored by the Computer Education Research Association of Chinese Universities and jointly organized by Nankai University and vivo waslaunchedat Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park. This competition, as apart of “China Colligate Computing Contest”, aims to improve students’ professional knowledge in the field of AIGC, application scenario innovation and ability to use large-scale AI models for creation.Gong Ke,
On March 25th, CP0119 tablets, a class-1 new chemical drug independently developed by a team from the College of Pharmacy of Nankai University, received the Notice of Approval forDrug Clinical Trialsissued by the National Medical Products Administration, which granted approval for clinical trials to treatslow transit constipation. This project marks the second new drug project approved for clinical trialsbyNankai University as the applicant, following the acquisition of the first clinical trial
On the evening of April 24, Beijing time, Nature, a top international academic journal, published online the progress of joint research made by Professor Luo Jingshan’s research group from the College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering of Nankai University, and teams from the University of Cambridge and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in the field of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting to produce hydrogen.The study is entitled “High carrier mobi
On March 19, Zhang Han’s team from the College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, in collaboration with Yao Jianhua’s team from Tencent AI Lab, published a paper entitled “scPROTEIN: a versatile deep graph contrastive learning framework for single-cell proteomics embedding” in Nature Methods, a top international academic journal. This study proposed a single-cell proteomics representation learning method called scPROTEIN, which is the first to develop a unified deep learning framewor
At the beginning of 2024, OpenAI (an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization) released Sora, the first AI-enabled text-to-video large-scale model. By simulating the dynamic changes in the real world through computer vision technology, it can generate 60-second smooth and realistic videos. It is regarded as another breakthrough in AI technology after ChatGPT. However, as can be seen from messed-up videos generated by the Sora, AI still has difficulties in “grasping” the physic
On March 15, the team of Prof. Rao Zihe of Nankai University and the team of Prof. Zhang Lu of ShanghaiTech University published online their joint research findings in Nature Microbiology, an authoritative journal in the field of microbiology. They reported the first three-dimensional cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of the membrane-bound phosphoribosyltransferase Rv3806c, a new drug target of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a deadly pathogen that causes global human Tuberculosis.
Recently, Professor Li Jianbiao of the China Institute of Corporate Governance of Nankai University published a collaborative paper entitled “Confusion can not explain cooperative behavior in public goods games” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) as the co-first and corresponding author. China Institute of Corporate Governance of Nankai University is the employer of the co-first author and corresponding author.Regarding the “confused learner” hypothesis (CLH), this study c
The team led by Professor Wang Qingmin from the College of Chemistry of Nankai University published a paper entitled “Facilely construct of GSH-responsive nanogel by photocrosslinking based on a new multi-functional emulsify-crosslinking agent for comprehensively improved utilization rate of pesticides” in Chemical Engineering Journal. In this study, a multi-functional nanogel was efficiently constructed for the first time through photocrosslinking without the addition of any chemical reagents.