Recently, a research team led by Professor Xiang Ma from the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, has proposed an innovative design strategy of host dearomatization for organic roomtemperature phosphorescent materials, achieving a substantial improvement in the lifetime of organic roomtemperature phosphorescence.The related findings, titled “Host Dearomatization for Prolonging Room-Temperature Phosphorescence”, were published in An

Recently, Professor Xuezhi Duan and Research Professor Yueqiang Cao from the Catalytic Reaction Engineering team at ECUST have made new progress in the data‑driven design of electrocatalysts for selective hydrogenation.To address the challenge of enormous chemical space for complex catalytic materials and low screening efficiency via conventional trial‑and‑error approaches, the team established a complete research workflow covering theoretical dataset construction, descriptor‑driven prediction,

Recently, the journal Nano Letters has reported new progress from ECUST in water electrolysis for hydrogen production. The work by the Clean Energy Materials and Devices team from the School of Materials Science and Engineering is published under the title “CeO₂ Stabilized Ni₄Mo Alloys as Robust Alkaline Hydrogen-evolving Electrocatalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis”.Water electrolysis is an important route to green hydrogen using renewable electricity, and anion exchange memb

Recently, Professor Sheng Dai from the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center and Professor Wangcheng Zhan from the State Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Engineering and Industrial Catalysis at ECUST, in collaboration with Research Professor Beien Zhu from Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have made new progress in Pt-based noble metal catalysts for light-alkane oxidation. Their findings were published in Nature Communications under the title “Effic

Recently, Professor Nianfeng Wan’s research team from the School of Pharmacy at ECUST, in collaboration with 178 researchers from 145 institutions across 38 countries, published a research article titled “Plant Diversity Modifies Multi-trophic Interactions in Croplands, Grasslands and Forests” in Science Advances, a journal under Science. This study provides the first global-scale systematic analysis of how plant diversity regulates multi-trophic interactions through distinct ecological mechanis

Recently, the research team led by Professor Jun Hu from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology made new progress in high-temperature carbon capture and in-situ conversion technology. The findings, titled “Self-Adaptive Ni Nanoparticles in Perovskite LaNi₁₋ₓAlₓO₃/CaO for Durable CO₂ Capture and In-Situ Conversion”, have been published in the journal Nature Communications.Integrated Carbon Capture and Conversion (iCCC) technology can f

Recently, the 2025 Shanghai Science and Technology Conference and the 2025 Shanghai Science and Technology Awards Ceremony was held. As the first completing institution, ECUST received commendations for 17 achievements, including 9 first prizes, 6 second prizes, 1 Youth Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award, and 1 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.Dynamic monitoring and precise spatiotemporal control of RNA in living cells were powerful tools for investigatin

Recently, the research team led by Academician Weihong Zhu and Professor Zhiqian Guo from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, has achieved progress in the research on new paradigms for oxygen-driven chemiluminescence.The team proposed a new design strategy of oxygen-driven [2+2] photocycloaddition chemiluminescence, and constructed a series of novel Rubines chemiluminescent dyes with high biocompatibility. This innovation realized the ultra-high-sensitivity in vivo visual t