A white piece of equipment was “climbing” a round tube. With its body part stretching and contracting like inchworms, it inched forward freely and even passed a 90-degree angle successfully.The equipment is actually aone-piece 3D-printed pipe-climbing robot composed of sequenced novel soft bending mechanisms, developed by Prof. Zuo Siyang and Dr. Liu Jianbin’s research team at Tianjin Univer...
A team led by Professor ZHANG Xiaodong from Medical College of Tianjin University has successfully designed a class of artificial enzymes called “clusterzymes”, which are catalytically potent and selective. The clusterzymes have promising potential in modulating neuroinflammatory diseases. Relevant work has recently been published in Nature Communications.Enzyme, an important catalyst in orga...
Traditional cancer chemotherapy may cause problems in terms of targeting, drug resistance, side effects, metastasis and recurrence. Recently, a team led by Professor Zhao Yanjun and Prof. Wang Zheng from the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology has designed a novel nano drug carrier based on the mechanism of ferroptosis. This carrier, with the characteristics of selectivity and broad...
China's first PV-Storage-Charging Integrated project of new aqueous zinc-manganese dioxide battery developed by Tianjin University’s Electrochemical Energy Storage Research Team was put into operation in the city of Yueqing in East China’s Zhejiang Province, marking the first application of aqueous zinc-manganese dioxide battery to the energy storage field in China. The project will serve as ...
For years, the serious air pollution, especially the haze, photochemical smog, and ozone, has attracted widespread attention at home and abroad. Volatile organic gases (VOCs) are important pollutants that cause haze and ozone (O3). The adsorption technique is one of the efficient and simple methods to remove VOCs, but the presence of water vapor can compete with VOCs in the practical applicatio...
Frequent outbreaks of lake eutrophication and harmful phytoplankton blooms have become a major water environment problem at present in the world. The reason can be attributed to the excessive inflow of nitrogen and phosphorus into waterbodies due to intensified human activities, which has become increasingly uncontrollable due to climate warming and other causes. As the most important nutrients...