04/08/2013Heat Resistant PLA Foam Sheet Made by NIMTE
The Professor Jin Zhu's group and their partner are seeking worldwide cooperation with plastic processing companies to manufacture various products of heat resistant PLA foam sheet.
04/08/2013Cheap and Fully Degradable Plasticized Polylactic Acid Materials
Recently, Prof. Jin Zhu 's group has made attractive progress by using the modified starch and plant oil together. The experimental result shows that the toughness and the impact strength of PLA/starch composite have been effectively improved.
04/08/2013A New Synthesis Method of Nitrogen-doped Hollow Carbon Spheres
A new synthesis method of nitrogen-doped HCS has been explored by Professor Jian Zhang’s group of NIMTE and HUST, which is to use nitric ionic liquids as the carbon and nitrogen sources, assemble them into thin layers on the monodispersed silica as the template, and then remove silica template after high temperature graphitization treatment.
03/28/2013Researchers at NIMTE Developed a Novel Biomaterial and Solved Toughening Problems for Bioceramics
Prof. Hua Li’s group developed novel HA-graphene nanocomposites and solved the longstanding toughening problem for bioceramics. The research appears in the April 7, 2013 issue of the Journal of Materials Chemistry B (J. Mater. Chem. B 2013, 1, 1826-1834) which has been released online.
03/15/2013Multifunctional Fe3O4-TiO2 Nanocomposites for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Potential Photon Dynamic Treatment (PDT)
The research group led by Prof. Aiguo Wu from NIMTE has explored the water-phase synthesis of multifunctional Fe3O4-TiO2 nanocomposites with Janus structure. The size of the Janus Fe3O4-TiO2 nanocomposites is 30-40 nm, the r2 value is around 54.691 mM-1S-1 and the r2/r1 value is larger than 3.