Recently, the research team led by Professor Xu Qiutao from the GXU School of Agriculture has made new progresses in the study of novel histone modifications in plants. Their groundbreaking research has produced the first genome-wide map of a novel acylation modification at a specific histone site in rice—2-hydroxyisobutyrylation (H4K8hib). This study reveals that H4K8hib acts as an active chr...

Recently, the Carbon-based Resource Catalytic Transformation Team from GXU School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering has made a breakthrough progress in the research of carbon dioxide electroreduction. The research finding, titled “Atmosphere Induces Tunable Oxygen Vacancies to Stabilize Single-Atom Copper in Ceria for Robust Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CH4”, was published in the int...

Recently, the probe and chemical biology team from GXU School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering made a major breakthrough in mechanosensitive fluorescence lifetime probes. The research finding, titled 'Mechanosensitive fluorescence lifetime probes for investigating the dynamic mechanism of ferroptosis', was published in the top-tier international comprehensive journal Proceedings of the Nat...

Recently, Professor Zou Bingsuo from GXU School of Resources, Environment and Materials has led his team to make further/significant progress in the research field of Selenium-Sulfur-Antimony solar cells. The relevant research findings, titled "Heterojunction Lithiation Engineering and Diffusion-Induced Defects Passivation for Highly Efficient Sb₂(S,Se)₃ Solar Cells" has been published in t...

Recently, the research team led by Professor Miao Lei from GXU School of Physical Science and Technology has made significant progress in the comfort and design strategies of wearable thermoelectric generators. This study proposes a new design for a comfortable wearable thermoelectric generator system with high output power based on the classic sandwiched thermoelectric model. The research fi...

The acquisition of offshore in-situ energy is a key technology for the development of ocean informatization and the Internet of Things (IoT) in marine environments. Recently, the Blue Energy Team from the School of Physical Science and Technology at GXU has achieved a series of progresses in the efficient harvesting of low-frequency wave energy based on triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG). Thes...