The Nano-Engineered Materials Group at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has proposed a neuron-inspired all-around telechelic polymer with remarkable mechanical and physical properties, rapid self-healing ability, adhesion, triboelectricity, as well as aggregate induced emission (AIE) fluorescence. The ...

A research group led by Prof. GE Ziyi at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has applied an asymmetric substitution strategy of end-groups in molecular donors, thus achieving high-performance all-small-molecule organic solar cells (OSCs) with power conversion efficiency (PCE) exceeding 16.34%. The stu...

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) proposed a facile approach to develop elastic and conductive Janus membranes with excellent adhesion for advanced flexible multifunctional electronics. The study was published in Chemistry of Materials (Chem. Mat...

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 developed a novel fluorescent organohydrogel with shape-memory ability, which could achieve photo-writing/photo-erasing and dual encryption of fluorescent information. This study was published in Advanced Op...

Prof. CHEN Tao’s team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed strain-perception-strengthening (SPS) enabled biomimetic soft skin, which realizes the dynamic transformation from tactile to pain perception. The study was published in Advanced Functional Materials.