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...

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 develop a conceptually new photo-mechanically modulated fluorescent system, which enables the on-demand display of fluorescent patterns/information by varying the remotely controlled near infrared (NIR) sign...

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...