Jan 06, 2020
PKU’s Jiang Ying and collaborators report the growth of the thinnest ice sheet in Nature
Peking University, Jan. 6, 2020:Water ices are ubiquitous in nature. The structure and growth of ice plays critical roles in an incredibly broad spectrum of materials science, tribology, biology, atmospheric science. As early as 1920s, Dennison, Bragg and Barnes studied the cryst...
Dec 17, 2019
Research progress on flexible and controllable solar thermal fuels of Yu Haifeng’s group from PKU
Peking University, Dec. 17, 2019: Recently, Yu Haifeng’s group from College of Engineering, Peking University, developed a kind of flexible and controllable solar thermal fuel (STF) cell. The STF cell is a composite of commercial fabric template and room temperature photo-l...
Dec 03, 2019
New design strategy of fused-ring electron acceptor photovoltaic materials from Zhan Xiaowei's group
Peking University, Dec. 3, 2019: Zhan Xiaowei’s group, from College of Engineering at Peking University, made new progress in nonfullerene acceptors for organic solar cells (OSCs), and developed new molecular design strategy of fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs), namely...
Nov 25, 2019
Formation of solar spicules and subsequent coronal heating unveiled
Peking University, Nov. 25, 2019: The outer atmosphere of the Sun, which extends outward for several million kilometers beyond the solar surface, is called the corona. Although the temperature in the core of the Sun is as high as 15 million degrees, it drops to a mere 5700 degree...
Nov 20, 2019
PKU Dong Shuxiang's group develops a unique 3D-printer for energy harvesting
Peking University, Nov. 20, 2019: Harvesting energy from natural sources such as mechanical strain, motion, light, heat, and magnetic fields has become a research hotspot because of potential application for wearable, self-powered electronics and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) i...
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