Recently, a research team from the School of Pharmacy, the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, and the Optogenetics and Synthetic Biology Interdisciplinary Research Center at ECUST, led by Professors Yi Yang and Xianjun Chen, made new advances in live-cell RNA imaging. Their work was published in Nature Protocols under the title “Live-cell imaging of RNA dynamics using bright and stable fluorescent RNAs”.RNAs exhibit complex dynamics in cells, including expression, splicing, localiza

Recently, a research team led by Professor Fu-Zhen Xuan from the School of Mechanical and Power Engineering at ECUST published a paper titled “Shear properties and stable wrinkle resistance in 2D Ti3C2Tx MXene monolayers” in Nature Communications.The study observed the damage origins of two-dimensional materials under shear loading at the atomic scale for the first time through scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and first-principles calculation

Recently, a research group at the School of Mechanical and Power Engineering published a paper in the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (2026, 317: 111523). This study addressed the modeling challenges of gas foil thrust bearings in high-speed turbomachinery and proposed and developed an accurate computational method.Yang Wu is the first author of the paper, and Professor Qi An is the corresponding author. Other collaborators include Shuangmin Li, Congpeng Shao, Lei Gao, and Changle G

Recently, a breakthrough was achieved in the field of “Artificial Intelligence + Single-Molecule Environmental Analytical Chemistry” by the research group led by Associate Professor Kaipei Qiu from the Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, ECUST.The team achieved standard-free quantification of ultra-trace per- and polyfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs) in complex

Recently, the research team led by Academician He Tian and Professor Xiang Ma from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, made new progress in the study of dual-component organic afterglow materials. The related research was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2026, e5554671) under the title “Pseudo-Homologue Doping Strategy for Afterglow Materials”.Organic afterglow materials have attracted extensive attention due to their unique delay

Recently, the Catalytic Reaction Engineering team from ECUST, led by Professor Xuezhi Duan and Researcher Xiaohu Ge, has achieved new progress in the development of catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitro compounds based on an adsorption-configuration matching strategy.The team successfully constructed a diatomic Pt₂2-ND@G catalysts with high-density and non-bonding structural characteristics, which realized the spatial decoupling of nitro compound adsorption and hydrogen activation sites, ther

A research team led by Professors Lingzhi Wang and Jinlong Zhang from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, has developed a highly efficient, sustainable method for the photocatalytic selective dehydrogenation of ethane. The research, titled “Site-defined Cu-O ensembles enable hydrogen-conserving light-driven ethane upgrading”, was recently published in Nature Communications.The solar-driven photocatalytic dehydrogenation of ethane utilizes the redox capabilities of photogene

Recently, a research team from the RD Center for Separation and Extraction Technology in Fermentation Industry, School of Biotechnology, ECUST, reported new research achievements in Green Chemistry, a leading international journal in the field of chemistry.The study, titled “Novel iterative genome mining and engineering of a bifunctional KvVDH enable selective production of furan carboxylic acids from high-concentration 5-hydroxymethylfurfural,” focuses on the discovery and engineering of bifunc