Topological chirality refers to the property of molecules that cannot be continuously deformed into their mirror images in three-dimensional space. It is a research field involving multiple disciplines, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. This field has become the forefront of international research. Compared to the extensively studied classical Euclidean ...

Chinese cities have climbed to the second position, just behind the US, in the top 100 most advanced cities in science and technology innovation globally after 10 years since the proposal of constructing science and technology innovation centers in China in 2013, according to a ranking released on Saturday.Du Debin, director of the East China Normal University Institute for Global Innovation St...

Xia Chengjie, a researcher from the School of Physics and Electronic Sciences of ECNU, along with Hu Bingwen’s team of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, have made a new discovery about the anomalous structural ordering transition in the stacking of disk-like particles. By using magnetic-resonance imaging techniques, the results from their research findings reveal the essential dif...

On June 5th, 2023 in Palma, Spain, Liu Dongyan, a researcher from the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, ECNU, was presented the Ruth Patrick Award by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) in recognition of her outstanding scientific contributions to the study of the causes of green tides in the Yellow Sea. Thus Researcher Liu has become the ...

Coastal transport is one of the major forms of coastal sediment movement. Traditional theory usually posits that the East Asian winter monsoon is the factor driving southward sediment transport from the Yangtze Delta, thus creating a 1000-km-long Zhejiang-Fujian mud wedge. However, the role of storms (especially typhoons) in the process has rarely been reported. A Chinese, Dutch and American co...

Along with life’s evolution, the immune system has become increasingly sophisticated compared with 450 million years ago, when fish took the lead in deriving an adaptive immune system based on T- and B-cells. This system has been inherited and developed during the long evolutionary process, thus becoming the criterion for the immune defense of quadrupeds. However, evidence from comparative gen...

The frequent occurrence of extreme rainstorms and mountain torrents in arid and semi-arid regions of the world are a consequence of climate change and the increasing impacts of human activities. The vast majority of torrential rain and flash flooding events (87%) and disaster deaths (97%) occurred in low- and middle-income countries and regions. What can be done to cope with rising natural disa...

The material transport from rivers to the ocean constitutes an important part of the cycle of marine elements. However, most attention has been focused on the impact of fluvial dissolved matters on the balance of marine elements. For most elements, the role of terrestrial particulates is currently less appreciated and quantified. Prof. Zhao Ning from the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Co...

Along with his team, Prof. Liu Min from ECNU School of Geographic Sciences utilized the big data of soil metagenomics to accomplish the world’s first distribution map of soil antibiotic resistance ge...