Liquid sorbents, such as water, polyethylene glycol (PEG), and organic amine solutions, are widely used in many industrial processes for acid gases removal. This process is called wet scrubbing. However, most liquid sorbents have high vapor pressure and are sometimes even corrosive to the equipment. These undesirable features greatly increase the cost of separation and complicate facility design. ...

Recently, a research group led by SPST’s Dr. Ji Quanjiang established an efficient genome engineering platform in Acinetobacter baumannii firstly. Their research was published in Cell Chemical Biology with the title of “A highly efficient CRISPR-Cas9-based genome engineering platform in Acinetobacter baumannii to understand the H2O2-sensing mechanism of OxyR”.This platform allows...

Halide perovskite shows great potential as the most promising next generation of high-efficiency and low-cost solar cells. Currently, the main problem for the perovskite solar cell is the incompatibility of high stability and high efficiency. For example, the stability of inverted structure perovskite solar cells is good, but the efficiency is low, especially for the NiOx-based inverted structure ...

The competition and interaction of different entangled degrees of freedom can generate many interesting phenomena, one of the most active research topics in contemporary condensed matter physics. Recently, the research groups of Assistant Professors Li Gang, Liu Zhongkai, and Guo Yanfeng studied the low-dimensional ferromagnetic system CrSiTe3 and successfully revealed the important role play...

Recently, ACS Nano published an article jointly contributed by research teams led by SPST Professors Xue Jiamin and Professor Guo Yanfeng and Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics Professor Hu Weida. Their work, “Nb2SiTe4: A Stable Narrow-Gap Two-Dimensional Material with Ambipolar Transport and Mid-Infrared Response,” reported an important research advance in new narrow-bandgap two-dimen...

On November 19th, Clarivate Analytics released the sixth annual Highly Cited Researchers list. Based on Web of Science data, and through analysis of citation data over the past 11 years, the list selects the most citation-influential scientific researchers with the highest number of highly cited papers in various fields, collectively recognized by global peers. More than 6,000 highly-cited scienti...

Recently, SPST Assistant Professor Li Tao’s research group overcame the key obstacles of constructing core-shell type metal-organic framework (MOF) composite materials. The work, “Uncovering Two Kinetic Factors in the Controlled Growth of Topologically Distinct Core-Shell Metal-Organic Frameworks,” was published in Chemical Science. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a broad class of poro...

A research team led by SPST assistant Professor Chen Gang recently published a research paper in Advanced Functional Materials, ‘In Situ Observation of Crystallization Dynamics and Grain Orientation in Sequential Deposition of Metal Halide Perovskites,’ which was highlighted as a cover illustration.Thin-film based perovskite solar cells exhibit stunning power conversion efficiency and pose a con...

Assistant Professor Mi Qixi’s group from the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) has recently made new progress in the study of optoelectronic properties of perovskite materials. Their research work,  “Stabilizing the CsSnCl3 Perovskite Lattice by B-Site Substitution for Enhanced Light Emission,” has been published in the academic journal Chemistry of Materials, with two ...

Recently, Assistant Professor Chen Gang’s group at SPST published their research in Nano Letters, ‘A New Organic Interlayer Spacer for Stable and Efficient 2D Ruddlesden−Popper Perovskite Solar Cells.’2D perovskite, which blends an organic interlayer spacer within the 3D perovskite matrix, promises great possibilities towards the fabrication of highly efficient and stable solar cell devices. Th...

Recently, a team of international researchers led by SPST Professor Chen Yulin made a breakthrough in the search for new topological quantum materials and discovered a magnetic Weyl semimetal phase in a ferromagnetic compound Co3Sn2S2. Their work titled “Magnetic Weyl semimetal phase in a Kagomé crystal” was published online in Science on Friday, Sept 20.The past decade has been witness to...

With graph attention mechanism, a ShanghaiTech team created an explainable artificial intelligence (AI) molecular representation method that can help medicinal chemists gain chemical insights from relevant drug discovery data directly.Hunting for chemicals with favorable pharmacological, toxicological, and pharmacokinetic properties remains a formidable challenge for drug discovery. To date, over ...

From August 31 to September 3, 2019, the 11th National Organic Chemistry conference was held at ShanghaiTech University. This year, the number of participants was a record high, attracting 2,700 chemical professionals, meanwhile more than 40 companies and academic institutions sponsored the academic event. The conference was organized by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Organic Chemistry Com...

Covalent organic frameworks are 2D or 3D porous crystals built by organic molecules through covalent bonds. Due to the framework stability and accurate control at molecular-level, this type of material shows potential applications in gas adsorption/separation, energy storage and conversion, drug delivery and so on. Recently, a collaborative work by SPST Assistant Professors Zhang Yuebiao and Ma Ya...