Marine pastures equipped with “giant pumps” to reduce carbon and purify water
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2022-03-01
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By the end of December 2021, China’s first artificial upwelling demonstration project, located in the waters of Aoshan Bay in Qingdao, had been in operation for 40 months. In this project, an artificial system is installed to form seawater upwelling which can transport nutrient-rich seawater to the euphotic layer on the surface. In this way, the growth of phytoplankton and algae can be promoted, thereby improving primary productivity, restoring the marine ecological environment, and enhanc...
Turn brittle mineral into plastic substitute
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2022-02-16
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Plastics bring much convenience to human life by virtue of their flexibility, plasticity, lightness and cheapness, but they also pose a considerable threat to the natural environment owing to their non-degradable bonds that lead to “white pollution”. In recent years, an increasing number of researchers have started to seek new “plastics” as an alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics.The research findings by Prof. LIU Zhaoming and Prof. TANG Ruikang from the Department o...
Solar housing project structured by ZJUers lands in the Winter Olympic City Zhangjiakou
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2022-02-12
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What comes to you when talking about the 2022 Winter Olympics? Fast and fierce actions on the slopes? The cute panda mascot Bing Dwen Dwen? The world has gone warm over the Games since its opening. Want to know how ZJUers contributed to the Games? Let’s turn the spotlight on the Solar House, a Demonstration Project in the host city Zhangjiakou jointly designed and built by an international team, Y-Team composed of students and faculty members from the Zhejiang University-University of Illinois ...
ZJU scientists contribute their part to green and clean Winter Olympics (II)
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2022-02-09
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[Editor’s Note: the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was officially opened on February 4. In addition to the crystal white world of ice and snow, the Beijing 2022 is featured by another bright color—green, the symbol of environmental protection. The Games embodies the concept of “greenness” in every dimension, such as ecology, buildings and transportation. This is Part II of a two-part story, showcasing how ZJU scientists have contributed to a “green and clean” Winter Olympics.] A new lida...
ZJU scientists contribute their part to green and clean Winter Olympics (I)
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2022-02-08
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[Editor’s Note: the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was officially opened on February 4. In addition to the crystal white world of ice and snow, the Beijing 2022 is featured by another bright color—green, the symbol of environmental protection. The Games embodies the concept of “greenness” in every dimension, such as ecology, buildings and transportation. This is the first installment of a two-part story, showcasing how ZJU scientists have contributed to a “clean and green” Winter Olympics.]Gr...
Prof. LI Binbin received the President's Special Fund for Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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2022-01-30
ZHANG Weidong: innovator in the next generation of battery
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2022-01-03
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[Editor’s note: ZHANG Weidong, a doctoral candidate from the College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been honoured one of the Ten Best ZJU Students. In today’s writeup, we cover his dedication to the research on the next generation of lithium batteries.]Start by being interested!Zhang Weidong chose Chemical Science as his undergraduate major out of pure interest 7 years ago. While strengthening his scientific foundations, Zhang took advantage of the numerous resources provided by t...
ZJU scientists’ research work hailed as one of China’s Top 10 Sci-tech Breakthroughs of the Year
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2021-12-29
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On December 20, Science and Technology Daily, a newspaper co-founded by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Association for Science and Technology, unveiled China’s Top 10 Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs 2021. The research on elastic ice microfibers, completed by Prof. TONG Limin and his team at the College of Optical Science and Engineering, ...
Genetic basis of root economic spectrum
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2021-12-25
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By analyzing the acquisition-conservation tradeoff in root systems among different plants, ecologists put forward the root economics spectrum (RES) hypothesis. Some plant species have finer and cost-effective absorptive roots which contribute to rapid nutrient uptake but have shorter lifespans whereas others have thicker and less cost-effective absorptive roots marked by slower nutrient acquisition but longer lifespans. The RES hypothesis reflects the correlations among different root traits, wh...
Rapid morphological shifts in response to habitat fragmentation
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2021-12-20
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Habitat fragmentation is one of the leading causes of biodiversity loss. The body size in terms of body mass and body length is associated with many biological traits, such as life history strategy and interspecific competition. Differences in space and time in body size are also the outcome of adaptive evolution. As compared with mainland species, island species have undergone remarkably striking changes in shape and body size.Prof. DING Ping at the Zhejiang University College of Life Scie...