Prof. ZENG Zhixiang’s team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a novel magnetic demulsifier with desert beetle-inspired microstructures, realizing high-efficiency oil-in-water emulsion separation with low recovery energy consumption. The study was published in Chemical Engineering Journal. 

A research group led by Prof. ZHANG Wenwu at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has achieved dynamic structural color display based on femtosecond laser variable polarization processing, in cooperation with researchers at Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) in Australia. The study was published in Adv. ...

The Smart Polymer Materials group led by Prof. CHEN Tao at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has successfully developed a fully-hydrophobic ionogel, which enables high-efficiency wearable underwater sensors and communicators in underwater operations. The study was published in Materials Horizons.

Prof. CHEN Tao’s team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed the aggregation induced emissive (AIE) carbon dots (CDs) glycol gel, which realized powerful octopus-like soft robots with synergistic multi-functionalities. The study was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

Prof. CHEN Tao’s team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a flexible and self-adaptive airflow sensor enabled by bioinspired thin-membrane, which is mediated by the reversible microspring effect. The study was published in Advanced Functional Materials.