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 synthesized a supramolecular multicolor fluorescent polymeric hydrogel, which enables the realization of soft biomimetic skins with adaptive color-changing behaviors. The study was published in Advanced Func...

A researcher group led by Prof. ZHU Jin at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), synthesized a novel self-healing ionic polyurethane (i-PU), thus achieving an ionic skin (I-Skin) with excellent sensing performance. The study was published in Advanced Functional Materials (Adv. Funct. Mater.).

Prof. YE Jichun’s team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), cooperating with researchers at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, has revealed the underlying dynamics of Silicon oxide (SiOx) tunneling junctions, including pinhole formation processes and charge-carrier transport mechanisms. 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), has developed an anti-freezing organohydrogel, which was applied as electrodes to prepare triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), and thus realizing high-efficiency human-machine interaction at -30 ℃. The study w...

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 fluorescent organohydrogel which can serve as an effective platform for the encryption and decryption of secret information, in cooperation with researchers at Beihang University. The study was p...