Recently, Professor Jianli Hua, from the research team led by Academician He Tian at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, has made advances in organic polymer-based photocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia. The relevant findings were published in Advanced Materials under the title “Dual-Quenching Charge Transfer Unlocks Record Nitrate-to-Ammonia Photocatalytic Conversion in Redox-Active Eosin Y”.Rapid recombination of photogenerated charges and low efficiency of multi-ele

Recently, a research team led by Professor Ben L. Feringa, Professor Da-Hui Qu, and Associate Professor Ruirui Gu from the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientists Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, published a paper titled “A Light-Driven Constitutional Pump” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2026, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c11812), reporting progress in non-equilibrium chemistry.Non-equilibrium states provide the thermodynamic foundati

Recently, a research team led by Professor Yongshu Xie and Associate Professor Qizhao Li from the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientists Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at ECUST, published an article titled “Triply N-Confused Hexaphyrins (1.1.1.1.1.0) Synthesized From N-Confused Hexaphyrin (2.1.1.1.1.1): Aromaticity Modulation, Metal Coordination, and Photothermal Conversion” in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, reporting the latest progress in antiaromatic po

Recently, Professor Jianli Hua from the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, in collaboration with Professor Andrew I. Cooper from the University of Liverpool, made a breakthrough in the development of conjugated heterocycle macrocycles for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. The study, entitled “Conjugated Shape-Persistent Heterocycle Macrocycles for Sacrificial Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution,” was published in CCS Chemistr

Recently, a research team led by Professor Haifeng Wang from the Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis and the Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, published a theoretical study titled “Disentangling the Activity-Charge Coupling in Cocatalyst-Semiconductor Heterojunctions for Optimized Oxygen Evolution” in Energy Environmental Science, reporting the latest progress in the mechanistic understanding of cocatalyst-semiconductor heterojuncti

Recently, the research group led by Professor Haifeng Wang from the Institute of Industrial Catalysis and the Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at ECUST, published a research article entitled “The kinetic basis of bifunctional OX-ZEO catalysts for syngas conversion to light olefins” in Nature Catalysis. The study has reported the group’s latest progress in the fundamental kinetics of bifunctional oxide-zeolite (OX-ZEO) catalysts for syngas conversi

Recently, the research group led by Professor Haifeng Wang from the Institute of Industrial Catalysis/Center for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, published a theoretical study titled “Disentangling the Activity-Charge Coupling in Cocatalyst-Semiconductor Heterojunctions for Optimized Oxygen Evolution” in Energy Environmental Science, reporting the latest advances in the mechanistic understanding of the photocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER)

Recently, a research team led by Associate Professor Guan Wang from the School of Biotechnology, ECUST, achieved progress in industrial microbial growth regulation and high-performance cell factory design. The study, entitled “Energy-translation Coupling Limits Anaerobic Yeast Growth,” was published in Nature Communications.The research team established strictly anaerobic continuous culture systems under carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus limitation to systematically investigate the mechanisms con