The swim bladder of fish plays the role of resonator to perceive the ambient environment, and further facilitate the fish to achieve a controllable vertical motion through the bladder’s reversible inflation and deflation in water.

Dr. WANG Rong’s research team at the Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has recently developed a mechano-responsive antibacterial hydrogel with controllable drug release behavior for wound healing application, in cooperation with researchers at Sun Yat-sen University ...

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), developed a novel soft self-healing and adhesive human-machine interactive touch pad based on transparent nanocomposite hydrogels, in cooperation with researchers at the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems (BINN)...

A research group led by Prof. LIU Zhaoping at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), revealed the structural flexibility and metastability of anionic redox-based lithium transition metal oxides, which can undergo large compressions and structural modifications while delivering good electrochemical proper...

The marine functional materials group led by Prof. WANG Liping at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has successfully prepared ultrathin metal-organic framework (MOF) nanosheets via surfactant-assisted bottom-up method. The developed Two-dimensional (2D) MOF nanosheets enhanced anticorrosion properti...