ProfessorYuan Chen

Xinhua (China): 据了解，锌空气电池之前使用昂贵金属如铂和氧化铱作为催化剂，所以其应用范围被限制在很小一部分的电子设备中，例如助听器和铁路信号系统等。现在新的技术开始采用高性能、低成本的催化剂，这些催化剂是用铁、钴和镍等金属氧化物结晶而成的

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies: Our researchers have found a solution for one of the biggest stumbling blocks preventing zinc-air batteries from overtaking conventional lithium-ion batteries as the power source of choice in electronic devices

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies: Two outstanding researchers in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney have commenced their Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and Future Fellowships this month

Clarivate Analytics: A new paper has attracted the interest of researchers working in several hot research areas: applications of graphene-based materials, energy storage for wearable devices, and assembly of nanomaterials

蓝色星球上占水资源总量97.5% 约13.45亿立方公里的是海水。如何把苦涩腥咸的海水淡化成可供人类饮用的淡水，一直是科学家们研究的课题。16世纪时，英国女王伊丽莎白颁布了一道悬赏令：以低廉成本将海水淡化成淡水的人可以得到10000英镑的奖金，从而开创了鼓励人工淡化海水的先河。

materialstoday.com: Membranes made from carbon nanomaterials like graphene or nanotubes could make fresh drinking water more available to more people - especially in developing countries

C&EN: Graphene quantum dots catalyze the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide into potent bacteria-killing hydroxyl radicals

Global Medical Discovery: There is an urgent need to find alternative routes to control the spreading of antibiotics-resistant bacteria

Cosmos Magazine: Supercapacitors with big storage capacity could be woven into the fabric of a vehicle

IEEE Spectrum: An international team of researchers has developed a fiber-like supercapacitor made from both graphene and carbon nanotubes that could be woven right into clothing