Prof. ZHANG Jian’s team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a highly effective Co3O4 electrocatalyst for furan upgrading coupled with hydrogen generation. The study was published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

A research group led by Prof. Zhu Jin at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed a facile method to prepare antibacterial lignin-based polyurethane/Ag composite foams which facilitates wound healing as wound dressings, in cooperation with Prof. Chen Jing at NIMTE and researchers at Tsinghua University. The researc...

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 lateral-line-like underwater mechanical sensor (LUMS) which can actively detect the water depth with a wide range of 0.3-1.8 m and sensitively capture the mechanical stimuli from land and water. ...

Prof. Ziyi Ge’s group at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a conjugated structure of two-dimensional (2D) perovskites that could alleviate the quantum confinement effect in general 2D structures and thus improve the photovoltaic efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The study was publis...

Prof. ZHANG Jian’s group at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), cooperating with Prof. ZHANG Zhaoliang’s group of Jinan University, have developed an electrification strategy aimed at decreasing the ignition temperature of soot using conductive metal oxides as catalysts. The study was published in Natur...