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 that the metastable state of cycled lithium-rich (Li-rich) layered cathode oxides, which stems from structural defects, accounts for the voltage decay of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), in cooperation...

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 multifunctional black sand aggregate for solar-driven purified water collection, which can adapt to diverse environments. The study was published in Nano Energy.

Recently, a research group led by Prof. LIU Jian at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), cooperating with researchers at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology and Inner Mongolia Normal University, developed a feasible open-die forging approach to plastically deform La-Fe-Si alloys for magnetic r...

A research group led by Prof. GE Ziyi at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has developed a BTEC-2F-based non-fullerene all-small-molecule organic solar cells (NFSM-OSCs) with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 13.34%, which is among the highest PCE reported for NFSM-OSCs. The study was published...

The Intelligent Medical Imaging (iMED) Group at the Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), proposed a fully automated method for image-level corneal nerve fiber tortuosity estimation, contributing to the examination and diagnosis of eye-related diseases. The study was publ...