Recently, the research team led by Prof. Fan Jianhua from the School of Biotechnology Engineering and the National Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, ECUST, published a significant article titled “Chromosome-level genome provides novel insights into the starch metabolism regulation and evolutionary history of Tetraselmis helgolandica” in the internationally renowned Journal of Advanced Research.The article is first authored by Zhou Zuodong (Master student, School of Biotechnology Engineer

Recently, the research team led by Wan Nianfeng from the School of Pharmacy, ECUST in collaboration with scientists from China, the UK, and Germany, published an original and innovative article titled “Understanding biodiversity effects on trophic interactions with a robust approach to path analysis” in Cell Reports Sustainability, a new sub-journal of Cell.The article is first authored by Wang Yuquan (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Biostatistics, Fudan University), and the second authored by Sh

Recently, the research team of Professor Zhao Weijun and Academician Zhu Weihong from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, has made important progress in the research of ultra-high temperature organic triplet scintillator, and the related research article was published in the Journal of American Chemical Society under the title of “Organic Ionic Host–Guest Phosphor with Dual-Confined Nonradiation forConstructing Ultrahigh-Temperature X-ray Scintillator”.The article is co-fir

Recently, Li Xingguang, a specially appointed researcher from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, published an important research paper entitled “Organocatalyzed diastereo-and enantioselective synthesis of N–Natropisomeric isoindolinones bearing central chirality” in the journal Nature Communications.This research work was accomplished by Ph.D. candidate Xinze Wang under the guidance of Prof. Li Xingguang, with Prof. Xingguang Li, Prof. Peiyuan Yu (Southern University of Sc

Recently, the research team of Academician Tian He from the Joint Research Center of Feringa Nobel Prize Scientists of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of our university successfully captured the gradual evolution process of hindered dihydrophenazine molecular conformation by crystallization locking conformation, which provided direct structural evidence for further understanding the dynamic behavior of VIE molecules. The research article was published in Angewandte Chemie with

Professor Hou Yu and Professor Yang Shuang from the research team of clean energy materials and devices of School of Materials, East China University of Science and Technology published their latest research article entitled “Graphene-Polymer Compensation of Perovskite Lattices for Durable Solar Cells” in Science on March 7th, 2025. This study found the key mechanism of perovskite photovoltaic instability-photo-mechanical induced decomposition effect, and put forward a new method of graphene-pol

Recently, Academician Zhu Weihong and Specially Appointed Researcher Zhang Weiwei from ECUST researched on an innovative molecular nano-photocatalyst based on a donor-acceptor structure for high-efficiency quasi-homogeneous photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production. The related research article was published in the prestigious journal Advanced Materials under the title “Efficient Quasi-Homogenous Photocatalysis Enabled by Molecular Nanophotocatalysts with Donor-Acceptor Motif”.The a

Recently, the research group of Professor Xu Jianhe from the National Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, ECUST, in collaboration with Professor Yu Huilei, leveraged AI-powered rational protein design technology to remodel the active center of carboxylic acid reductase, significantly enhancing its activity and substrate specificity. The study successfully applied this redesigned enzyme to the biosynthesis of monomers for Nylon 6 and Nylon 66 (1,6-hexanediamine and 6-aminocaproic acid). The