Chinese researchers have made a breakthrough in recycling plastic waste utilizing seawater and sunlight, a process which is low-cost, environmentally friendly and economically viable.The team at East China Normal University in Shanghai said their process can achieve "closed-loop "recycling of plastic waste and is already attracting huge interest.The method, discovered by a research team led by ...

The research team led by Professors Shian Zhang and Yuecheng Shen from the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy at East China Normal University has made significant strides in the field of photoacoustic microscopy imaging. Addressing the challenge of reduced imaging resolution due to optical aberrations in photoacoustic microscopy, the team has developed an adaptive optical technology...

In our daily life, some of us are confused about why we are in debt to somebody who lends a hand to us (i.e., the so-called debt of favors). Indeed, it is the feeling of indebtedness that makes us think so. According to the latest research conducted by researchers at the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science of ECNU, the more that individual reciprocal behavior is affected by the indebtedn...

ECNU and Zhejiang University have jointly discovered a new activation mechanism for small molecules to directly open the KCNQ2 channel, offering a new path for drug discovery of agonists.Drugs are generally divided into inhibitors and agonists; the former can reduce the activity of targets while the latter can increase the activity of targets. Ion channels have a very wide range of physiologica...

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...