Nankai University NewsNetwork (Correspondent Cheng Dan). The phenomenon of vortices is pervasive in nature, manifesting across a broad range of scales, from the motion of particles at the quantum level to the distribution of stars in galaxies. In the field of optics, Allen and colleagues first demonstrated in 1992 that vortex beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), thereby ushering in a new era in vortex beam research, bridging classical and quantum perspectives. This seminal discovery not o
A research team led by Prof.Chen Zhigang and Prof. Xu Jingjun from Nankai University has made anadvancement in photonic graphene.They havepresenteda concept of “optical vortex ladder”(OVL)for stepwise generation of optical vortices through Sisyphus pumping of pseudospin modes in photonic graphenewith arbitrary integralorbital angular momentum.Furthermore, the OVLs may open exciting new avenues for application of topological singularities, with the potential to impact the fields of optical commun
Recently, a research team led by Professors Wu Qiang, Lu Yao and Xu Jingjun atNankai University has made important progress in the study of stimulated phonon polaritons. The team demonstrated giant Kerr effect of terahertz waves by leveraging the strong coupling between terahertz waves and lattice vibrations in ionic crystals to excite the nonlinearity of stimulated phonon polaritons. This breakthrough offers new possibilities in advancing terahertz optical communications, optical computing, and
On September 25, a collaborative research team from Nankai University’s Institute of Transplantation Medicine and Tianjin First Central Hospital, led by Professors Shen Zhongyang and Wang Shusen, along with their collaborators, published a groundbreaking study in the prestigious journal Cell. This research reports the first international case of transplanting insulin-producing islet cells derived from chemically inducedpluripotent stem cells, achieving a functional cure for a patient with type 1
A study titled Efficient Neural Collaborative Search for Pickup and Delivery Problems by Kong Detian, a doctoral student from Research Center of Logistics at Nankai University, has recently been published in the prestigious journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), a leading publication in artificial intelligence (AI).Nankai University is the principalinstitution, with Professor Xiao Jianhua, Director of the Research Center of Logistics, serving as the
Propylene oxide(PO)is a crucial organic chemical intermediate. The direct epoxidation of propylene with molecular oxygen offers 100% theoretical atomiceconomy, representing amost desiredroute for PO production. However, this aerobic epoxidation reaction suffers from the apparent trade-off between propylene conversion and PO selectivity, whichremains a key challenge in catalysis.A recent researchby Nankai University research team, titled “Direct Propylene Epoxidation with Molecular Oxygen over Ti
Successful completion of the globalfirst trial ofendovascular removal ofaninterventionalBCIsensorDuan Feng’s teamis conducting endovascular removal of an interventionalBCI sensorRecently, Beijinghaswitnessed the successful endovascular removal of the globalfirst interventionalbrain-computer interface (BCI) sensor. This groundbreaking procedure was led by Professor Duan Feng’s team from Nankai University’s School of Medicine and College of Artificial Intelligence. For the first time, the team saf
Recently, the China Insurance Institution Governance Index (CIIGI), alternatively,the Insurance Institution Governance Index of Nankai University(IIGINK), has been released by the China insurance institution governance evaluation research team, which is chaired by an associate professorat Nankai University. This index, built upon the evaluation indicator system and index model developed by the team, aims to provide a comprehensive, scientific, systematic, and quantitative displayof the governanc
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
Recently, Professor Xuewen Fus team from the Laboratory of Ultrafast Electron Microscopy at the School of Physics, Nankai University,successfully developed the worlds firstmultimodal carrier dynamics detection system that combines scanning ultrafast electron microscopy(SUEM) imaging and ultrafasttime-resolved cathodoluminescence (TRCL) detection. Under the femtosecond ultrafast electron mode, thissystem has aspatial resolution better than 10 nm and a time resolution better than 500 fs and 4.5 ps
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