Recently, a research group led by SPST’s Dr. Ji Quanjiang established an efficient genome engineering platform in Acinetobacter baumannii firstly. Their research was published in Cell Chemical Biology with the title of “A highly efficient CRISPR-Cas9-based genome engineering platform in Acinetobacter baumannii to understand the H2O2-sensing mechanism of OxyR”.This platform allows...

Halide perovskite shows great potential as the most promising next generation of high-efficiency and low-cost solar cells. Currently, the main problem for the perovskite solar cell is the incompatibility of high stability and high efficiency. For example, the stability of inverted structure perovskite solar cells is good, but the efficiency is low, especially for the NiOx-based inverted structure ...

The competition and interaction of different entangled degrees of freedom can generate many interesting phenomena, one of the most active research topics in contemporary condensed matter physics. Recently, the research groups of Assistant Professors Li Gang, Liu Zhongkai, and Guo Yanfeng studied the low-dimensional ferromagnetic system CrSiTe3 and successfully revealed the important role play...

Recently, ACS Nano published an article jointly contributed by research teams led by SPST Professors Xue Jiamin and Professor Guo Yanfeng and Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics Professor Hu Weida. Their work, “Nb2SiTe4: A Stable Narrow-Gap Two-Dimensional Material with Ambipolar Transport and Mid-Infrared Response,” reported an important research advance in new narrow-bandgap two-dimen...

Dr. Yang Haitao, Shanghai Institute of Advanced Immunochemical Institute (SIAIS) Principal Investigator, recently was awarded the 2019 Youth Shu Lan Medicine Award, marking the first time a ShanghaiTech faculty member won this  prize.Youth Shu Lan Medicine Award Winners and the PresentersThe Shu Lan Medicine Awards, first awarded in 2014, recognize distinguished scientists and scholars. Youth...

When that newest issue of Cell arrives, or you're checking out the latest articles in Nature, have you ever stopped to think about where the cover images and accompanying illustration come from? With their support, ShanghaiTech scientists’ groundbreaking research can jump from the page in full color and excite the reader.  Julie Liu, an illustrator who joined ShanghaiTech as a ...

DREAM 2019 Challenge organizers recently announced competition and the ShanghaiTech team from SIST named “SingleCellLand” won the Third Place (out of 291 teams worldwide) in the first sub-challenge. The team was guided by Professor Zheng Jie, the director of SIST’s Smart Medical Information Research Center (SMIRC). Other team members include Professor Zheng’s master’s degree students Dai Xinn...

On November 19th, Clarivate Analytics released the sixth annual Highly Cited Researchers list. Based on Web of Science data, and through analysis of citation data over the past 11 years, the list selects the most citation-influential scientific researchers with the highest number of highly cited papers in various fields, collectively recognized by global peers. More than 6,000 highly-cited scienti...

Recently, Professor Shao Ziyu’s research group made a breakthrough in fundamental theory of networking, solving an open problem: how to systematically design effective large-scale network topology? Their article “Systematic Topology Design for Large-Scale Networks: A Unified Framework” was accepted by IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2020).In the field of n...

Recently, a collaborative study led by Assistant Professor Zhao Suwen and Assistant Professor Zhong Guisheng at iHuman Institute and School of Life Science and Technology, and Research Associate Professor Wu Dong at iHuman Institute reported two crystal structures of human α2A adrenergic receptor (α2AAR) in complex with a partial agonist and an antagonist, and discovered key non-conserved r...

Recently, SPST Assistant Professor Li Tao’s research group overcame the key obstacles of constructing core-shell type metal-organic framework (MOF) composite materials. The work, “Uncovering Two Kinetic Factors in the Controlled Growth of Topologically Distinct Core-Shell Metal-Organic Frameworks,” was published in Chemical Science. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a broad class of poro...

iHuman Institute Professor Raymond C. Stevens and his team recently elucidated the first crystal structures of the δ-opioid receptor (DOP) in an activated state. The results were published in the journal Science Advances, in an article titled “Elucidating the active δ-opioid receptor crystal structure with peptide and small-molecule agonists.” ShanghaiTech University PhD student Yu Jing from R...

A research team led by SPST assistant Professor Chen Gang recently published a research paper in Advanced Functional Materials, ‘In Situ Observation of Crystallization Dynamics and Grain Orientation in Sequential Deposition of Metal Halide Perovskites,’ which was highlighted as a cover illustration.Thin-film based perovskite solar cells exhibit stunning power conversion efficiency and pose a con...

Assistant Professor Mi Qixi’s group from the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) has recently made new progress in the study of optoelectronic properties of perovskite materials. Their research work,  “Stabilizing the CsSnCl3 Perovskite Lattice by B-Site Substitution for Enhanced Light Emission,” has been published in the academic journal Chemistry of Materials, with two ...