Chinese Arctic Scientific Observation Team arrives at the Arctic Circle

In pursuit of China’s plan to promote the establishment of a polar commercial route, the polar vessel “Snow Dragon” arrived on July 30 at the Arctic Circle and raised China’s flag. The crew carried out observation activities such as marine weather, marine hydrological...

CAS SINANO group develops multiresponsive graphene aerogel fibers

A group around Xuetong ZHANG at CAS Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO)  has developed a novel type of smart fibre by combination of graphene aerogel fibre, phase change material (PCM) and fluorocarbon (FC) resin coating. The fibre is flexible and...

CAS DICP team develops flexible planar Li ion microcapacitors

Interdigital micro-supercapacitors are a promising miniaturized energy source. A research team led by WU Zhongshuai and BAO Xinhe from the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has reported a new-type of all-solid-state flexible...

China will have 700 National Key Labs by 2020

According to a post of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), jointly issued with the Ministry of Finance, China will rapidly expand the present number of 220 national key laboratories. Major efforts will be made in research fields such as mathematics,...

Jiangsu opens stem cell R&D center in Nanjing

A research and development (R&D) base for stem cells storage and application recently went into operation in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. The base can preserve three million stem cell samples extracted from, e. g., children’s lost baby teeth or umbilical cord. It...