Recently, the research group led by Professor Jun Zheng from the School of Pharmacy at ECUST, in collaboration with Professor Peng Liu’s group at the University of Pittsburgh, published a paper titled “Catalyst-Controlled Chemodivergent Carbene Transfer Reactions With Bicyclo[1.1.0]butane-Derived Acceptor Metallocarbenes” in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.This study developed an acceptor-type carbene precursor platform based on bicyclo[1.1.0]butane (BCB) derivatives, enabling a new cata

Recently, Professor Menghao Cai’s team from the School of Biotechnology at ECUST published an article titled “The industrial yeast Komagataella phaffii blooms for advanced biomanufacturing” in the biotechnology review journal Biotechnology Advances (IF 12.5). This article systematically summarizes the recent progress and key technological advancements of this strain in advanced biomanufacturing.The review highlights that K. phaffii has expanded beyond its traditional role as a conventional expre

Recently, a research team led by Professor Yongdi Liu from the School of Resources and Environmental Engineering at ECUST achieved progress in the field of persulfate-based advanced oxidation processes. The findings were published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition under the title “Process-Driven Protonation in Benzothiadiazole-Integrated Covalent Organic Frameworks: Activation of Peroxymonosulfate for Pollutant Oligomerization via Dominant Electron Transfer Process”.Traditional peroxymo

A research team led by Professor Dahui Qu at the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, proposed a disulfide-mediated confined assembly strategy that significantly enhanced hydrogel performance under heating conditions. The findings were published in Advanced Materials (Adv. Mater. 2026, DOI: 10.1002/adma.202523672).In this work, lipoic acid was introduced into a poly (acrylic acid) network to construct a novel thermal-hyperhard

Recently, the team led by Professor Jin Jing of ECUST has achieved new progress in the interdisciplinary research on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) and computer vision. The study was published online in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing under the title “Enhancing Target Recognition Performance in SSVEP-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces via Deep Neural Networks With Pyramid Squeeze Attention”. This is the first publication in this journal to take BCI as its core research subject, highlighting t

Recently, Professor You Yang’s team from the School of Pharmacy at ECUST, in collaboration with the teams of Academician Biao Yu (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Liuqing Wen (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), and Associate Professor Dapeng Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), published a review paper titled “Synthesis of Glycans: State of The Art and Future Perspectives” in CCS Chemistry. This work summarizes rece

Recently, a research team led by Jianguo Yu and Sen Lin, professors at the National Engineering Research Center for Integrated Utilization of Salt Lake Resources at ECUST, made progress in high-efficiency lithium recovery from strongly acidic systems. The study, entitled “An induced Li⁺ oriented migration strategy for high-efficiency extremely strong acid lithium recovery”, was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.To address the limited applicability of conventional lithium extra

Recently, a research team led by Professor Nianfeng Wan from the School of Pharmacy at ECUST, in collaboration with researchers from China, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, and Spain, published a cover article in Current Biology, titled “Trophic cascades drive sustainability in the agricultural heritage rice-fish coculture system”. The study provides scientific evidence supporting the rice-fish coculture system, a Globally Important Agricultural Herit