Recently, a research team led by Professors Wang Lei and Feng Lu from the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases/ TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Nankai University has made a major breakthrough in the study of the blood–brain barrier (BBB).
Recently, a research team led by Professor Duan Feng of Nankai University has successfully completed the world’s first clinical trial using an interventional brain-computer interface (BCI) to assist in the motor function restoration in a paralyzed limb. The breakthrough enabled a hemiplegic patient to regain mobility in the affected limb.
On June 5, the team led by Prof. Yu-Ming Wangfromthe School of Physics of Nankai University made a breakthrough in the research fieldof perturbation field theory and hadron structure. Theirfindings were published in Physical Review Letters, a top academic journal in the field of physics, under the title of “Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Prediction for the Pion Form Factor”.Yu-Ming Wangtogether with the twodoctoral students Bo-XuanandHui-XinYu in his group, colloboratedclosely with Prof. Yao
On June 9, Nature Energy published online the important progress made by the research group led by Prof. Zhang Yi of the College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering of Nankai University, in collaboration with the team of Prof. Chen Tao of the University of Science and Technology of China, and the team of Prof. Liu Shengzhong of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the field of antimony selenosulfide solar cells.The study is entitled Carrier manageme
An important research result entitled “Deep-learning-based single-domain and multidomain protein structure prediction with D-I-TASSER” was published in Nature Biotechnologyon May 23 with Professor Zheng Wei from the School of Statistics and Data Science of Nankai University as the first author.This study developed D-I-TASSER, a protein structure prediction algorithm that integrates deep learning spatial constraints and statistical energy functions, to achieve highly accutare protein structure pr
According to the latest Essential Science Indicators (ESI)data released by Clarivate, Nankai University’s Neuroscience and Behavior discipline has newly enteredthe top 1% globally, becoming the 18th discipline to rank among the ESI global top 1%.The 18 disciplines at Nankai University currently ranked in the ESI global top 1% are: Chemistry, Materials Science, Physics, Engineering, Environment/Ecology, Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Clinical Medicine, Computer Science,
Recently, a Nankai University research team has made important progress in the research on sonodynamic immunotherapy of tumors. They have developed an ultrasound-energizedintelligent biotherapeutic system combining genetically engineered bacteria with polymeric sonosensitizers, aiming to trigger a multidimensional immune cascade for potent antitumor immunotherapy. The research findings were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society(JACS).Costimulatory signals play a key role in t
A joint research team led byProf. SunZhongming fromNankai UniversityandProf. Zhao Lili from Nanjing Tech University has achieved a breakthrough in transition metal chemistry. Their research outcome, titled“Synthesis of Triple-Decker Sandwich Compounds Featuring a M–M Bond Through Cyclo-Bi?and Cyclo-Sb?Rings”, was recently published in Nature Chemistry. Using Zintl-phase compounds as Sb/Bi sources, the researchers successfully synthesized Cyclo-Bi?and Cyclo-Sb?rings and achieved thefirst-ever iso
Zhang Kai, a researchfellowfrom the College of Chemistry at Nankai University, was recently named one of the “Energy and Fuels Rising Stars” by the American Chemical Society (Energy Fuels) and awarded the “The Ninth Chinese Electrochemical Youth Award” at the 22nd National Electrochemical Congress. These accolades highlight his exceptional contributions to the development of critical materials and reaction mechanisms for long-life sodium-ion batteries.Currently serving as a researcher and docto
Nankai University NewsNetwork (Correspondent Cheng Dan). The phenomenon of vortices is pervasive in nature, manifesting across a broad range of scales, from the motion of particles at the quantum level to the distribution of stars in galaxies. In the field of optics, Allen and colleagues first demonstrated in 1992 that vortex beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), thereby ushering in a new era in vortex beam research, bridging classical and quantum perspectives. This seminal discovery not o
A research team led by Prof.Chen Zhigang and Prof. Xu Jingjun from Nankai University has made anadvancement in photonic graphene.They havepresenteda concept of “optical vortex ladder”(OVL)for stepwise generation of optical vortices through Sisyphus pumping of pseudospin modes in photonic graphenewith arbitrary integralorbital angular momentum.Furthermore, the OVLs may open exciting new avenues for application of topological singularities, with the potential to impact the fields of optical commun
Recently, a research team led by Professors Wu Qiang, Lu Yao and Xu Jingjun atNankai University has made important progress in the study of stimulated phonon polaritons. The team demonstrated giant Kerr effect of terahertz waves by leveraging the strong coupling between terahertz waves and lattice vibrations in ionic crystals to excite the nonlinearity of stimulated phonon polaritons. This breakthrough offers new possibilities in advancing terahertz optical communications, optical computing, and
On September 25, a collaborative research team from Nankai University’s Institute of Transplantation Medicine and Tianjin First Central Hospital, led by Professors Shen Zhongyang and Wang Shusen, along with their collaborators, published a groundbreaking study in the prestigious journal Cell. This research reports the first international case of transplanting insulin-producing islet cells derived from chemically inducedpluripotent stem cells, achieving a functional cure for a patient with type 1
A study titled Efficient Neural Collaborative Search for Pickup and Delivery Problems by Kong Detian, a doctoral student from Research Center of Logistics at Nankai University, has recently been published in the prestigious journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), a leading publication in artificial intelligence (AI).Nankai University is the principalinstitution, with Professor Xiao Jianhua, Director of the Research Center of Logistics, serving as the
Propylene oxide(PO)is a crucial organic chemical intermediate. The direct epoxidation of propylene with molecular oxygen offers 100% theoretical atomiceconomy, representing amost desiredroute for PO production. However, this aerobic epoxidation reaction suffers from the apparent trade-off between propylene conversion and PO selectivity, whichremains a key challenge in catalysis.A recent researchby Nankai University research team, titled “Direct Propylene Epoxidation with Molecular Oxygen over Ti