On April 29, the “New Energy-Excellence Lecture”of Nankai University was held with great aplombin the Joint Research Building. Wu Yicheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor from the Tianjin University of Technology, attended the lecture and made a speech on the development and application of nonlinear optical crystal materials. Chen Jun, Vice President of Nankai University and the head of the School of Chemistry, awarded Academician Wu Yicheng the honorary certif
Environmental contamination by mercury in its organometallic form, methylmercury, remains a major global concern due to its neurotoxicity, environmental persistence and biomagnification through the food chain.Methylmercury was also the “culprit” of the “Minamata disease”in Japan in the 1950s,causinga worldwide scandal. However, for a long time, the mystery of methylmercury formation in the environment has prevented people from controlling methylmercury pollution fromthe source.Recently, a resear
On April 22, the Academician and Expert Achievement Exhibition and Transformation Center of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, jointly established by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government was officially inaugurated in Jiading District, Shanghai. The Academician and Expert Achievement Exhibition Hall was opened on the same day. The research achievement of the team of Academician Li Zhengming from Nankai University, “A Super-efficient Herbicide for Mill
On April 22, researcher Wang Youchun, virologist, chief expert in vaccine verification of the China Institute of Food and Drug Administration, member of the World Health Organization’s Committee for Standardization of Biological Products, guested at Nankai Public Health Lecture with the topic “Research on novel Coronavirus Pseudoviruses”, which brought a vivid public health science report to teachers and students of Nankai University.Xu Jianguo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Fig. 1 The local surface plasmon effect of Au/Nv-C3C4heterojunction and its involvement in the reaction process and electrochemical properties of lithium-oxygen batteriesIn recent days, the research team of Li Fujunfrom the College of Chemistry of Nankai University has made a breakthrough in the development of light-responsive high-energy-density lithium-oxygen batteries. They have developed a new type of semiconductor catalyst with surface plasmon enhancement effect. For the first time, visible
The picture shows the structure of symmetric sodium-ion battery based on the inorganic-organic hybrid tetrasodium salt molecule (on the left) and the 30 Ah soft pack sodium-ion battery based on the high specific energy manganese-based oxide cathode and in-situ pre-sodium hard carbon cathode developed by Chen Juns team (on the right)Chen Juns team at Nankai University, with more than ten years of dedicated research, has made a breakthrough in key electrode materials and control mechanisms for sod
Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is an ancient chronic infectious disease, which humans have been fighting against for quite a long time. TheGlobal Tuberculosis Report 2020issued by WHO estimates that the number of people latently infected with tuberculosis in the world is close to 2 billion. In 2019, there were 9.96 million new tuberculosis patients worldwide and 1.21 million deaths. Among the newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients worldwide in 2019, about 3.3% of new patients a
1.The application of hair artificial muscleDoes it have to be complicated to make a robot that can walk and move? No! In the hands of a scientist, an ordinary human hair can be changed intoa crawling robot in seconds. The team of Professor Liu Zunfeng fromthe College of Chemistry of Nankai University and the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry Biology,which has long been committed to the research of artificial muscle materials, has developed a self-fixating intelligent hair artificial mu
There are many magical space-time symmetries present in the universe.Some of thosecountless novelties originate from the topology of the structureof the universe, some from the nonlinearity of the material, and otherfrom the “Parity Time (PT) Symmetry” that can realizespace-time symmetry concurrently. However, it is very difficult to find a natural material or a physical-existingmaterial systemwithmultiple properties in nature. How to experimentally construct artificial complex systems that have
On March 25, Clarivate Analytics announced the latest statistics of ESI. Nankai Universitys microbiology discipline made a new breakthrough. It entered the worlds top 1% of ESI for the first time and became the 15th ESI listed discipline of Nankai University.Currently, the discipline of Nankai University that has entered the world’s top 1% of ESI subjects arechemistry, materials science, physics, environmental science and ecology, biology and biochemistry, engineering, molecular biology and gene
On March 21, teachers and students from the College of Life Sciences of Nankai University carried out the demonstration and training of facilitated pest control methods for farmers in the demonstration base of biological control and production base of organic produce in Dongli District (Tianjin). Prof. Yuan Weibin and his research team gave a detailed explanation and technique training for the farmers regarding these aspects. With the focus on biological control in pests, the science research te
The Ministry of Science and Technology has announced the joint release of the “list of excellent popularmicro-video works about popular science for national scientific epidemic prevention in 2020” as compiled by the Department of Foreign Intelligence Management and the Science and Communication Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. An originalvideo, The Secret of Temperature Measuring Guns,produced by a Nankai student,wasrecommended by Nankai University and successfully selected.In 2020, th
New achievements in the world engineering field and cooperation among engineers in different countries are needed to accelerate the global sustainable development, Gong Ke, president of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), has said recently.He made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Xinhua before the upcoming second World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development, which will be celebrated on March 4.Themed with Engineering for a Healthy Planet, this day highlights
On February 15, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) officially released the list of AIMBE Fellow of 2021. A total of 174 AIMBE Fellows were elected worldwide in recognition of their outstanding achievements in medicine and biological engineering.Professor Pang Daiwen, from the School of Chemistry of Nankai University, was elected for his significant contribution in Quantum Dot-Based Single-Virus tracking.There are four other Chinese scholars elected this year, i
As oncology research evolves, the scientists have discovered that the cancer stem cells, which can be found in many types of cancer, are responsible for the metastatic cancer and its recurrence. However, there are still many major questions unanswered, such as what are the characteristics of cancer stem cells, how they cause diseases, why they develop drug resistance, what are their drug resistance mechanisms and many others. To solve those questions, scientific researchers have been attempting