From May 28 to June 3, School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM) hosted the 2017 International Student Innovation Competition (ISIC) at ShanghaiTech. 24 students from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (“HKUST”) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (“NTU”) came to Shanghai to join 13 ShanghaiTech students to form eight mixed teams. All eight teams were given on...

From June 1st to 2nd 2017, professors and doctoral students from Drexel University Biologically-Inspired & Resource-Conserving Advanced Materials (BRAVE) group and Neuro-Inflammation and Gender Research Program (NGRP) visited ShanghaiTech and participated in the ShanghaiTech-Drexel Joint Research Workshop. The goal of the workshop is to identify potential field of cooperation based o...

In a recent publication in Advanced Materials titled “Symmetrization of the Crystal Lattice of MAPbI3 Boosts the Performance and Stability of Metal–Perovskite Photodiodes,” Professor Qixi Mi’s group from the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) report the design of novel perovskite semiconductor materials, and their applications in high-performance and stable photodiode de...

Researchers from the School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University has revealed a new way to synthesize allyl- and benzyl-substituted quinone compounds. The results are summarized by graduate student Xiao-Long Xu and Assistant Professor Zhi Li of SPST in a communication entitled “Catalytic Electrophilic Alkylation of p-Quinones via a Redox Chain Reaction”, which is published...

On May 18th 2017, University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer and Vice Provost Balaji Srinivasan visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng. President Jiang reflected on their meetings in the past, and warmly welcomed President Zimmer to the new campus of ShanghaiTech for the first time. Vice President Gong Jinkang then introduced ShanghaiTech and summarized the student program c...

An international team led by the iHuman Institute, ShanghaiTech University has determined the 3-dimensional molecular structure of the human glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) drug binding domain. The work reveals molecular mechanisms of allosteric regulation in class B G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The results, described in a paper entitled “Human GLP-1 receptor transmemb...

A team of scientists led by the iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech University in collaboration with Fudan University has determined the high-resolution crystal structure of the multi-domain human smoothened receptor. The results illustrate the allosteric domain-domain interactions within the receptor, and their role in smoothened activation. These new findings are published on May 17th, 2017 in...

Scientists from the ShanghaiTech University’s SPST have proposed two electron crystallography approaches for determining handedness of chiral zeolite nanocrystals. Their work was published in early May as an Advance Online Publication (AOP) in Nature Materials titled “Electron crystallography for determining the handedness of a chiral zeolite nanocrystal.” All three authors are from Shangh...

In late April, ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng visited a number of prestigious American universities and research institutions, including CalTech, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Homel Institute of University of Minnesota, Mayo Clinic, and Princeton University and its Institute for Advanced Study. He met with administrators, researchers, professors and had fruitful discussions with them on...

Last month, a ShanghaiTech delegation headed by President Jiang Mianheng visited and explored cooperation possibilities with Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, along with Mobileye, a global leader in the development of vision technology for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). ShanghaiTech President Jiang and Israel Institute...

Professor Zhang Yuebiao’s research group, in collaboration with researchers from Lanzhou University, recently published a paper titled “A Dynamic Covalent Organic Framework” in the Journal of American Chemical Society. SPST graduate student Wei Lei is the co-author, and Dr. Zhang Yuebiao and Professor Wang Wei are the corresponding authors. The ShanghaiTech University research was supported by ...

The Fog Computing workshop, organized by OpenFog and ShanghaiTech University (ShanghaiTech) on April 24th, was held at the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), ShanghaiTech University. Along with the workshop, the OpenFog Consortium Greater China Regional Committee and the Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Technology (SHIFT) were officially launched. Officials and researchers fro...

School of Physical Science and Technology Professor Ning Zhijun’s team recently made progress on photocatalytic hydrogen generation. They developed a high efficiency, low toxicity photocatalytic system based on colloidal quantum dots with broad absorbance in visible region.Their paper, “0D–2D Quantum Dot (QD): Metal Dichalcogenide Nanocomposite Photocatalyst Achieves Efficient Hydrogen Generatio...

The Ji Lab at The School of Physical Science and Technology has developed a CRISPR/Cas9-based system (pCasSA) for rapid andefficient genome editing in Staphylococcusaureus, a major human pathogen that causes serious infections with a highmortality rate. Their work was recently published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in a paper titled “Rapid and Efficient Genome Editi...