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Bio-inspired Robot Developed to Be a Space ‘catcher’
A research group led by Prof. Kang Rongjie, an Associate Professor from the Centre for Advanced Mechanisms and Robotics of Tianjin University, developed a novel continuum bio-inspired robot that looks like a flexible arm combining softness and strength. This invention will be a “catcher” in space to handle failed satellites and space debris if it passes the undergoing ground tests. Under the ...
2021-02-08 -
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Clusterzymes Designed to Modulate Neuroinflammation
A team led by Professor ZHANG Xiaodong from Medical College of Tianjin University has successfully designed a class of artificial enzymes called “clusterzymes”, which are catalytically potent and selective. The clusterzymes have promising potential in modulating neuroinflammatory diseases. Relevant work has recently been published in Nature Communications.Enzyme, an important catalyst in orga...
2021-01-19 -
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New Nano ‘Weapon’ to Hit Cancer Cells Precisely
Traditional cancer chemotherapy may cause problems in terms of targeting, drug resistance, side effects, metastasis and recurrence. Recently, a team led by Professor Zhao Yanjun and Prof. Wang Zheng from the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology has designed a novel nano drug carrier based on the mechanism of ferroptosis. This carrier, with the characteristics of selectivity and broad...
2020-12-24 -
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Wastewater Treatment May Cause Imbalanced N / P Ratio in Lakes
Frequent outbreaks of lake eutrophication and harmful phytoplankton blooms have become a major water environment problem at present in the world. The reason can be attributed to the excessive inflow of nitrogen and phosphorus into waterbodies due to intensified human activities, which has become increasingly uncontrollable due to climate warming and other causes. As the most important nutrients...
2020-11-17 -
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Research about Nanostructured Transition Metal Phosphides Published in EES
Transition metal phosphides (TMPs) hold a great prospect in the field of catalysis. Recently, a review with the title of “Recent advances in nanostructured transition metal phosphides: synthesis and energy-related applications” has been published on Energy & Environmental Science (EES, IF=30.289), the top journal of energy and environment fields, by Yanmei Shi, a postdoctoral fellow from the ...
2020-10-21 -
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Photoelectric Effect with a Twist
Professor Klavs Hansen from the Center for Joint Quantum Studies of Tianjin University cooperated with his counterparts in Nova Gorica and published an essay entitled“Photoelectric Effect with a Twist” in Nature Photonics, one of the top journals in photology field （link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-020-0669-y）.Photons are the smallest amounts of light you can have. ...
2020-10-21 -
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A Promising Finding in Therapy of Alzheimer's Disease
After years of research on novel nano drugs for Alzheimer's disease, a research team led by Professor Chang, Jin from Tianjin University has constructed a novel targeted and high-efficiency nanosystem for combinational therapy of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Such multifunctional synergetic nanosystem can be a new candidate to achieve highly efficient combination therapy for AD.AD is commonly known...
2020-09-09 -
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TJU Researchers Find New Way to Inhibit Tumor
Associate Professor Li Nan’s group from the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology reported a boosted photocatalytic activity induced NAMPT-regulating therapy to simultaneously inhibit tumor proliferation, migration, and inflammation, offering a new point of view for cancer therapy with low side effects and high therapeutic efficacy. The research result was published on Biomaterials ...
2020-07-17 -
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Tracing Methylmercury Sources in Marine Food Web of Chinese Bohai Sea Using Mercury Isotopes
Studies show that mercury (Hg) concentrations in the upper ocean (0-1000m) has now become 2.5 times that of pre-industrial level. Since the inorganic Hg could be transformed into methylmercury (MeHg, the most toxic Hg form) through microbial and chemical methylation, elevated inorganic Hg is expected to increase the production of MeHg in the oceans. The produced MeHg could be bio-accumulated in...
2019-10-31 -
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TJU Researchers Improve Gas Boiler Exhaust Treatment
Air pollution has become a major concern in recent years in China. The State Council of China issued the "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan" in 2013. According to the plan, natural gas should be used more efficiently and newly extracted natural gas should give exclusive priority to living consumption or replace coal combustion". Since 2016, Chinese provinces have been promoting t...
2019-09-11 -
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How to Thin an Organic Single Crystal Down to Monolayer
A research team led by Professor Rongjin Li and Professor Wenping Hu from Tianjin University reported the controllable growth of molecularly thin organic single crystals. The research result was published online on Angewandte Chemie under the title of “Layer-defined Strategy to Grow Two-dimensional Molecular Crystals on LiquidSurface down to Monolayer”.Two dimensional molecular crystals (2D...
2019-08-26