As a marriage of polymeric hydrogels and fluorescent materials, fluorescent polymeric hydrogels (FPHs) potentially integrate the merits of both materials, including intrinsic soft wet nature, tissue-like mechanical strength, biocompatibility, biomimetic self-healing feature, facilely tailored structure, responsive fluorescence, etc. Thus FPHs showed wide application, such as...

A research group led by Prof. LI Runwei at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has made a serious of great progress in the research and development of bionic pain-perceptual system.

Prof. LIU Fu’s group at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a poly(vinylidene fluoride) membrane with a dual-scale hyperporous structure and rational wettability, which can achieve a continuous “nonfouling” separation for oil/water emulsions via membrane demulsification, in cooperation with...

A research group led by Prof. CHEN Tao at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has developed a novel asymmetric bilayer carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-elastomer/hydrogel composite with integrated actuating and sensing performances. The study was published in Chemical Engineering Journal.

A research group led by Prof. ZHU Jin at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has synthesized a high-efficiency carbon nanotube (CNT) modified lignin-based polyurethane adsorbent for crude oil spill remediation, in cooperation with Prof. CHEN Tao’ group at NIMTE and Prof. YAN Ning’s group at the Univ...