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【China Daily】Tianjin University's intelligent connected buses start road test
On Nov 1, three intelligent buses developed by the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Unmanned Vehicles of Tianjin University started open road testing on intelligent connected roads in Tianjin Haihe Education Park.The buses were officially licensed on Oct 31, making Tianjin University the first to obtain both licenses for open-road testing and licenses for vehicles to have road tests among ...
2022-11-04 -
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Chinese Scientists Develop Novel Biopsy Capsule Robot to Replace Colonoscopy
Chinese scientists have developed the capsule robot (CR)—a new strategy for biopsy sampling which is expected to replace colonoscopy.Movement performance test of the new biopsy capsule robot developed at Tianjin University and biopsy samplingsThe team of researchers, led by Song Zhibin from Tianjin University, has developed a novel biopsy sampling strategy using the CR. The robot they have d...
2022-09-30 -
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New Landmark in Flexible Electronics
On March 25, Prof. Bao Zhenan’s team from Stanford University and Prof. Hu Wenping’s team from Tianjin University published the study “Topological Supramolecular Network Enabled High-Conductivity, Stretchable Organic Bioelectronics”online in Science, realizing the long-dreamed combination of the great electrical and mechanical performance of the flexible electronic devices.Through introduci...
2022-04-09 -
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MOF Membranes with Fast-water-transport Channels Published
Recently, Professor Liu Xinlei at the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology published a communication entitled “Highly Water-Permeable Metal–Organic Framework MOF-303 Membranes for Desalination” in Journal of the American Chemical Society (https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c10192). PhD candidate Cong Shenzhen was the first author.Metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) are a family of porous cr...
2022-01-07 -
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Researchers Develop Universally Autonomous Self-healing Elastomer
Synthetic materials that can mimic self-healing natural tissues such as skins and muscles are now widely applied to e-skin, wearable electronic devices, and artificial muscles, significantly improving materials’ lifetime, robustness and safety.However, it is very challenging to develop autonomous self-healing materials for applications in harsh conditions such as at ultralow temperatures, in s...
2020-05-28 -
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A New Two-Dimensional Photocatalytic Material Utilizes CO2 and Produces Energy
Recently, Tianjin University’s professor Feng Wei's team has successfully synthesized two-dimensional gersiloxenes with tunable bandgap for photocatalytic H2 evolution and CO2 photoreduction to CO. It shows a great potential for an excellent photocatalyst with high efficiency for hydrogen production and reduction of CO2 to CO at room temperature. The relevant research work has been published i...
2020-04-02