A team led by Professor Zhou Qixing from Nankai University, in collaboration with several domestic institutions, has successfully designed and reported a novel and highly efficient noble metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), known as FeOCo-SAD. By adjusting the pyrolysis temperature and the inert atmosphere, they synthesized a catalyst with atomically dispersed oxygen-bridged Fe and Co dual metal dimers active sites (
A significant milestone in the research of water electrolysis for hydrogen production hasbeen made by Professor Jingshan Luo’steam from Nankai University’s College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, in partnership with Professor Federico Calle-Vallejo’s team from the University of the Basque Country, Spain.The collaborative teamutilized metal-support interactions to develop a high-activity hydrogen evolution catalyst in an alkaline environment. This catalyst canoperate stably at
The team led by Professor Zhao Wei of Nankai University and the team led by Professor Yu Fan of University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciencesjointly published a research paper entitled “A Novel Drug Candidate for Sepsis Targeting Heparanase by Inhibiting Cytokine Storm” in Advanced Scienceonline. This groundbreaking study offers a new treatment strategy for sepsis, a disease with one of the lowest drug development success rates worldwide, to protect the vascular endothelial barrier. Based on
Tianjin Changxing Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the first companies to settle in Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park. Changxing Energy Storage RD team is led by Chen Jun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice president of Nankai University, and its core members include a number of outstanding young scientists. The team mainly conducts research on national large-scale energy storage and new energy vehicle application scenarios.The mainstream battery in th
The antennae are the primary sensory organs of insects, and can accurately perceive slight vibrations, magnetic field orientation, direction of gravity and chemical stimuli. Their perceptual sensitivity is comparable to that of human skin, and even outshine humans when it comes to some special functions. However, compared with mimicking the sensory organs of mammals, an urgent pending problem in the field of bionic electronics is how to simulate insect antenna – a highly sensitive and multi-func
Recently, the team led by Prof. Chen Shuqi and Prof. Tian Jianguo of Nankai University has made important progress in the field of bound states in the continuum (BICs) nanolaser. The team proposed full-k-space BICs by engineering the complex Fourier components of the dielectric constant of microstructure to control the Bragg scatterings, and also realized the arbitrary spatial information modulation of nanolasers intra cavity based on full-k-quasi-BICs. The related results were published in the
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 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
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
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.