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06 2017
The Green Low-Carbon Materials Group, led by Prof. JIANG Yijun from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has made a series of progress in the design and preparation of bio-based hybrid materials. The related research results have been published in the ACS Nano (DOI:10.1021/acsnano.6b05780, DOI:10.1021/acsnano.7b01221) and have been selected as "Editor Choice".
Bio-based materials are kind of new materials synthesized by biological or chemical methods based on renewable resources. They are environmentally friendly, renewable and biodegradable, which are the frontier of materials science research.
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04 2017
A research team from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has developed the solid state battery system (namely QIBEBT-I) as the only power supply assembled on the lander Wanquan and brought to the Mariana Trench. The lander realized 9 times of successful dives, of which 6 times down to 10,000 m depth (maximum dive depth of 10,901 m). The cumulative working time and the longest continuous running time of QIBEBT-I were 134 hours and 20 hours, respectively. Human never stop nature exploration especially under extreme conditions. The Mariana Trench is the deepest part (10,994 m) of the world's oceans, located in the western Pacific Ocean. The development of full ocean depth expedition equipments requi...
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01 2017
The Modelling and Simulation Group, led by Professor YAO Lishan from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy Sciences, studied the quinary interactions of proteins in the cell-like environment (Lysate) by using a remote chemical shift perturbations (CSPs) method, also developed by this group. Human health is closely related to the structure and function of a protein. Generally, the hierarchy of protein structure can be divided into primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structures in the textbook. However, there are also the quina...
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01 2017
Researchers from Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences have creatively proposed three promising strategies for lead-free battery systems: 1) the low-cost lithium (Li) ion batteries, 2) low-cost aqueous zinc (Zn)-based batteries, and 3) novel magnesium (Mg) battery systems. Low-speed electric vehicles with low usage cost have greatly facilitated people’s travel in recent years. Currently, most of low-speed electric vehicles are powered by the lead-acid cells which possess marked advantages in cost. However, lead-aci...
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01 2017
The Microbial Resource Group, led by Professor LI Fuli, from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found a novel thermophilic bacterium for ethanol production from brown algae. You may know kelp as a common seaweed food on our table. As a kind of brown algae with complex sugar compositions, kelp can also be converted into biofuels due to its inherent advantages of no lignin, high growth rate, and no competition with food...
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01 2017
Recently, the Biomimetic Smart Material Group, led by Professor LI Chaoxu from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed an approach for scalable production of exfoliated WS2 with unprecedented efficiency and further construction of biomimetic soft devices. Ocean is always a vast resource treasury of human beings given by the nature. Alginate, a marine polysaccharide produced mainly from brown algae, shows high water solubility, high thickening property, film-forming property, gelatinizing property, ...
