Recently, Prof. Runwei Li and his co-workers used superconducting niobium (Nb) as the anode element and fabricated the Nb/ZnO/Pt sandwich structured device, through dedicated design and operation, they observed superconducting behavior of the filaments at low temperatures and also conductance quantization behaviors of the atomic scale filaments at room temperature. 

Thus,mullite fiber plays a key role in the national economy development and is an important element to improve industries’energy efficiency.
One of the most important challenges in manufacture of mullite fiber is to control the porosity which may lead to fracture and low strength of fibers.
At present,the group has made a progress to reduce the porosity and improve the stre...

Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering(NIMTE),dedicating to developing,manufacturing and marketing solid oxide fuel cell technology(SOFC)that generates clean electricity in compact form for both mobile and stationary applications,announced that an SOFC stack with new high output power was successfully assembled and tested.
Each stack series includes 60 piec...

Joint disease and trauma are among the worst threats to the human beings.
Results demonstrated that the magnetic nanocomposites showed improved osteo-conducive activity in comparison to the nanohydroxyapatite.
The spatial distribution of the magnetic nanoparticles in the hydrogels induced gradient adhesion and proliferation of human osteoblasts(Fig 2).
This study is believed...

These composite thin films and the preparation technology can be expanded to the microintelligent thermal management system and microfluidic systems.
The novel self-propelled interfacial material and preparation technology can be used to the manufacture process and constructed a temperature-dependent tubule for microfluidic systems.