Recently, a research group led by Liangzhu Zhang, Distinguished Associate Research Fellow from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, ECUST, reported a scalable topochemical synthesis strategy for black phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs). The findings were published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) under the title “Scalable Topochemical Synthesis of Black Phosphorene Nanoribbons” (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c02221).As a unique quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterial, PNRs possess exce

Recently, a research team led by Professor Weijun Zhao and Academician Weihong Zhu from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, made new progress in red organic plastic scintillator materials. The findings were published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition under the title “Hybridized Local and Charge-Transfer Emitter with a Dual-Hindered Indoline Donor for Fast and Efficient Red Plastic Scintillators.”Scintillators are special materials capable of converting high-energy

Recently, the Catalytic Reaction Engineering team from ECUST made new progress in alkyne semihydrogenation catalysts. The findings were published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition under the title “Substrate-Dependent Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation over a Hydrogen-Competent Pd₃Sn₂ Intermetallic Catalyst”.Selective semi hydrogenation of light alkynes is a key reaction in the production of polymer-grade ethylene and propylene via the cracking of naphtha and light alkanes. Although

Recently, the journal Engineering published online a research article titled “Fabricating Efficient White-Light-Emitting Ultra-Small Gold Nanoparticles via a Supramolecular Strategy,” reporting the latest achievement by the team of Professor Xiang Ma and Liangwei Ma, Distinguished Associate Research Fellow from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, in the field of white-light emission from ultra-small gold nanoclusters (AuNCs).The research team proposed a synergistic emission

Recently, the team led by Professor Xiang Ma and Associate Professor Bingbing Ding from the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, has achieved important progress in flexible ultralong room-temperature phosphorescence materials. The findings, titled “Harmonizing High Phosphorescence Efficiency and Stretchability in Flexible Afterglow Materials through Microphase Engineering,” was published in Advanced Materials (2026, e733

Recently, the research team led by Academician Weihong Zhu and Professor Weiwei Zhang from the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, has achieved a major breakthrough in the field of photochemical green synthesis of hydrogen peroxide using nanoscale covalent organic frameworks (COFs). The findings, entitled “Synergizing Mass Transfer and Exciton Dissociation in Nanoscale COFs for Efficient H₂O₂ Photosynthesis,” have been publis

Advanced oxidation technologies based on environmental functional materials are regarded as key technologies for deep industrial pollution treatment and coordinated carbon reduction.Nevertheless, a huge gap remains between laboratory research and practical engineering applications. Many materials systems that exhibit excellent performance at the milligram scale in laboratories are unable to meet the demands of ton-scale operation, continuous processing, and complex real-world conditions.Traditio

Shuguang Fang, who enrolled as a PhD student in Biochemical Engineering at ECUST in 2002 and graduated in 2007, has committed himself to the probiotics industry for two decades. Under his leadership, WeCare Probiotics has become the third-largest probiotics company globally and Asia’s largest producer of raw probiotic powder, and has officially filed for listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.During his doctoral studies, Fang acquired solid expertise in strain screening and high-density ferment