The Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) filed 476 patent applications in 2019, accounting for 13% of the total 3657 patent application fillings, thus ranking first among scientific research institutions in Zhejiang province, according to the Provincial Patent List of 2019 relesed recently.

Chinese researchers have reported a new type of self-protective and reproducible electronic textile for wearable devices with high performance.

Chinese scientists who have created lab-grown, one-carat artificial diamonds in a week said the process is like planting crops with "seeds" and "fertilizers".

Lithium-metal batteries offer great energy density improvement over lithium-ion, but understanding their cyclability is a daunting task. Now, an analytical method is reported to quantify lithium in its electrochemically inactive and active forms, enabling insights about the anode reversibility throughout cycling.

Chinese scientists have developed new biomimetic polypropylene foams for oil-water separation, which can be used to prevent and control oil pollution.