The inauguration of Center for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy (ChEM) and international electron microscopy forum was successfully held in SPST from May 27th to 29th. After nearly three years of construction, under the coordination of the whole university's functional departments, an advanced electron microscopy research and teaching center with excellent equipment and service in the front...

Zhong Chao’s Group in the Division of Materials and Physical Biology at ShanghaiTech’s School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) has recently reported an engineered bacterium, which could sense environmental signals (for example, light or small molecules) to produce biofilms and, and simultaneously direct the assembly of inorganic nano-objects with spatiotemporal control in a dynamic, rec...

On April 27th, the Opening Ceremony for “Hard X-Ray Free Electron Laser Facility Forum- Opportunities and Challenges” was held at ShanghaiTech. Bai Jingyu, Department Director of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC); Zhou Bo, Executive Vice Mayor of Shanghai; Zhang Tao, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS); Jiang Mianheng, President of ShanghaiTech University; Shi ...

Professor Shengjie Ling of School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, in collaboration with Professor David L. Kaplan of Tufts University and Markus J. Buehler of Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a review article of “Nanofibrils in nature and materials engineering” in Nature Reviews Materials on April 5th.Biopolymer nanofibrils, such as cellulose, c...

Recently, Dr. Ji Quangjiang’s group from the School of Physical Science and Technology deciphered the molecular mechanism of how the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus utilizes staphylopine (StP) to recognize and capture metal ions from its surroundings.Their research was published in an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled “Mechanistic insights into staph...

A research team led by Professor Chen Gang of the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University has solved the long-standing mystery of the origin of the attractive forces between like-charged colloidal particles. Their work was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.Colloids adsorbed at a fluid interface are ubiquitous in nature and central to a...

A team of scientists led by Professor Huaidong Jiang and Professor Zhi Liu of the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, along with Professor Chunying Chen of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Professor Renzhong Tai of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics have made important progress in the field of bioimaging based on synchrotron radi...

A team of researchers led by Professor Lin Bolin at ShanghaiTech University have discovered a new principle for efficient CO2 mitigation, and, for the first time, explicitly overturned the dominant paradigm that the use of fossil fuel power to drive CO2 chemical reductions would create more CO2 emissions than it would reduce CO2. The researchers propose a progressive strategy for gl...

Recently, a collaboration between the Ji Lab at the School of Physical Science and Technology, and Beijing Institute of Genomics’s Han Lab developed a single-base editing technique in Staphylococcus aureus and their results were published online in Chemical Science in an article titled, “Highly Efficient Base Editing in Staphylococcus aureus Using an Engineered CRISPR RNA-guided C...

The direct conversion of solar energy to electrical power is widely regarded as a key technology to tackle the energy crisis in a sustainable manner. Among innovative technologies, metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have advanced to the forefront of solution-processed photovoltaic techniques, promising for high power conversion efficiency and low cost. Currently, the technique involving th...

Under the support of the National Key Research and Development Program titled “High stability, full spectrum, high-efficiency solar cells materials exploration and device realization,” the School of Physical Science Technology’s Ning Zhijun Group explored Lead Sulfide (PbS) as the active layer and developed highly efficient inverted structural quantum dot (QDs) solar cells. Recently, their work...

ShanghaiTech Vice President Professor Gong Jinkang and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Deputy Directory Professor Tai Renzhong gave opening remarks. They welcomed scientists from all over the world to ShanghaiTech University and wished them an enjoyable stay in Shanghai and a fruitful experience at the workshop. A poster from German Erlangen-Nürnberg scientist Olaf Brummel was awarded ...

A collaborative research project between Yan Shichao, an assistant Professor in School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University and Professor Sebastian Loth at Max Planck Institute in Germany discovered the spin-based NDR effect in antiferromagnetically coupled few-atom spin chains. Their research paper on the “Dynamical Negative Differential Resistance in Antiferromagne...

Recently, School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) Assistant Professor Lin Bolin’s research group made a major breakthrough in CO2/olefins-based polymeric materials synthesis and was selected in ACS Editors’ Choice. Combining green-house gas CO2 with a low cost olefin, they provided a convenient and highly efficient methodology for synthesis of functionalizable polymeric materials. ...