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Prof. Jiao kui’s Team Develop High-Performance Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Recently, Professor Kui Jiao 's team from the School of Mechanical Engineering has successfully developed a proton exchange membrane fuel cell with ultra-high power density, nearly doubling the performance of mainstream counterparts. The significant findings have been published in the international authoritative energy research journal "Joule".Comparison of conventional and unconventional PEMFC...
2023-11-14 -
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Novel Purely OLPL Materials Developed
Long-persistent luminescence is a unique photophysical phenomenon, which generally exists in inorganic materials. The inorganic long-persistent luminescence materials have been widely applied in the fields of luminescence lighting and biological imaging. Compared with inorganic long-persistent luminescence materials, organic long-persistent luminescence (OLPL) materials pose attractive applicat...
2021-06-21 -
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Differences Between SARS and COVID-19 Bindings to Human Receptors at Different Temperatures
A research team from Tianjin University led by Professor Gao Feng, Director of the University’s BioInformatics Center successfully revealed the differences in the binding characteristics of SARS coronavirus and COVID-19 to human receptors at different temperatures. The research result, which was obtained by molecular dynamics simulations, provides useful guidance and reference for drug design...
2021-03-17 -
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TJU Researchers Develop 3D-printed Pipe-climbing Robot
A white piece of equipment was “climbing” a round tube. With its body part stretching and contracting like inchworms, it inched forward freely and even passed a 90-degree angle successfully.The equipment is actually aone-piece 3D-printed pipe-climbing robot composed of sequenced novel soft bending mechanisms, developed by Prof. Zuo Siyang and Dr. Liu Jianbin’s research team at Tianjin Univer...
2021-01-21 -
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Pilot Project Using Aqueous Zinc-manganese Dioxide Battery Developed by Tianjin University Put into Operation
China's first PV-Storage-Charging Integrated project of new aqueous zinc-manganese dioxide battery developed by Tianjin University’s Electrochemical Energy Storage Research Team was put into operation in the city of Yueqing in East China’s Zhejiang Province, marking the first application of aqueous zinc-manganese dioxide battery to the energy storage field in China. The project will serve as ...
2020-12-24 -
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Review Paper on Progress in DNA Functional Materials Published
Recently, Professor Yang Dayong from the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology published a review paper entitled “DNA functional materials assembled from branched DNA: design, synthesis and applications” in Chemical Reviews (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00294). PhD candidate Dong Yuhang and Dr. Yao Chi were co-first-authors.DNA, namely deoxyribonucleic acid, is the c...
2020-07-27 -
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Atomically Thin Minerals Discovered as Excellent Proton Conductors, Promising for Green Technology
A newly published article entitledA tomically-thin Micas as Proton Conducting Membranes in Nature Nanotechnology shows that atomically-thin micas, a type of common mineral found in soil are highly permeable to protons. As proton conductors are key parts to fuel cells and hydrogen-related technologies, this discovery may help promote the development of fuel cell cars and other green technologies...
2019-11-18 -
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Study Reveals Causes, Methods of Reduction and Transport of Air Pollutants
Professor Fu Pingqing’s team from Institute of Surface-Earth System Science with their collaborators such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted research about seasonal variations in stable carbon isotopic composition of n-alkanes and fatty acids in urban aerosols from Beijing and published their research results in the journalACS Earth and Space Chemistryas aSupplementary Cover Article....
2019-10-17 -
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Optica: Researchers extend non-line-of-sight imaging towards longer wavelengths
Editor's Note: Recently, Prof. Hu Xiaolong’s group from the School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronic Engineering collaborated with Prof. Yang Jingyu’s group at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering and demonstrated a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging system that allows people to see objects hidden behind obstacles. They introduced a superconducting nanowire single-pho...
2023-12-06 -
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Discovery on Sulfur-Phenolate Exchange: SuFEx-Derived Dynamic Covalent Reactions and Degradation of SuFEx Polymers
Among known click chemistry, sulfur (VI) fluoride exchange (SuFEx) reaction is a new generation of click chemistry, in which the S–F bond reacts readily with silyl-protected phenols, phenolates or amines. In 2019, Han Zuilhof’s group discovered that SuFEx reaction is intrinsically an enantiosespecific click reaction as a chiral S(VI) center reacts exclusively with inversion of configuration. Th...
2023-10-18 -
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New Organic RTP Materials Developed for Smart Bioimaging
Recently Professor Li Zhen's team from Tianjin University together with Professor Ding Dan's team from Nankai University made a breakthrough in the development and application of high-efficiency and long-life pure organic room-temperature phosphorescent (RTP) materials.The "luminous pearl-like" material they developed can continue to emit light for nearly half an hour after being exposed to lig...
2021-06-21