Impactful Research

Zhangxing Chen & Heng Zhao's Team | A Novel Strategy for Valorizing Methane

The greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide are major contributors to global warming. Dry reforming of methane (DRM, CH₄+ CO₂→2CO + 2H₂) is a process capable of converting both gases simultaneously into useful syngas. However, this reaction requires temperatures above 700°C, and catalysts are prone to rapid deactivation, primarily through coking, which has hindered its large-scale industrial adoption.A significant advancement has now been made by the team led by Zhangxing Chen, Chair Profess

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

2026-02-02

Wei Xia's Team | A Surface Halogenation Strategy for Extending Cycle Life in Silicon-Based Solid-State Batteries

Imagine smartphones that require charging only once a week, or electric vehicles capable of exceeding 1,000 km on a single charge. All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs), regarded as the next-generation power source, could turn this vision into reality.However, a critical challenge hinders their development: when high-capacity silicon is used as the anode, it exhibits severe interfacial incompatibility with sulfide-based solid electrolytes (e.g., Li₆PS₅Cl, LPSC). Continuous side reactions at the inte

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

2026-01-04

Published in Science: Chunmiao Zheng's Team Clarifies Global Exposure Risks to "Forever Chemicals" from Marine Fish

Commonly consumed fish such as salmon and tuna may be silently contributing to a “hidden health risk,” according to a recent study. A collaborative research led by Professor Chunmiao Zheng, Chair Professor in the School of the Environment and Sustainable Engineering, College of Engineering, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, and Associate Professor Wenhui Qiu of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), has revealed thatper- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)are progressi

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

2025-12-18

Chen Zhu's Team | Wielding Electricity to Rewrite Molecules—Organic Electrosynthesis Awakens Dormant Bonds

organic electrosynthesisis the modern conductor who directs molecules not with heat, not with acids or bases, but with a stream of electricity.As electrons flow gently across the electrode surface, they apply a soft yet precise electric-field nudge to molecules, causing previously inert chemical bonds to cleave and reorganize at just the right moment, composing entirely new molecular architectures.The key advantage of electrosynthesis lies in its ability to precisely control reaction patterns, s

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

2025-12-15

Dongxiao Zhang's Team｜AI Can Discover New Equations Like a Scientist

This research may challenge your previous perceptions.It elevates algorithms from passive data analysts or imitators to active explorers and creators. Instead of merely digging out hidden patterns from data, it integrates existing knowledge to generate and optimize new theories and equations we have never conceived of, much like a true scientist.A research team led by Academician Dongxiao Zhang from the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, has proposed an intelligent partial differential equ

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

2025-11-22

Research Team Led by Professor Yuntian Chen Reports Increased Structural Failure Risks for Offshore Wind Turbines Under Climate Change

A study conducted by Assistant Professor Yuntian Chens team at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo and collaborators reveals that over half of the operational and planned offshore wind farms across Asia and Europe are exposed to hazardous extreme wind conditions. The analysis indicates a significant increasing trend in extreme wind speeds, which critically influences turbine structural loads, across 68% of global coastal regions. The findings were published in Nature Communications on Novemb

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

2025-11-05

How Did Eukaryotic DNA Replication Machinery Evolve? Professor Fabai Wu's Team Finds Answers in Archaea

The accurate replication of genetic material DNA is one of the most fundamental biological processes essential for the survival, growth, and reproduction of all living organisms. Eukaryotes, including humans, plants, yeast, and paramecia, share a similarly complex DNA replication machinery. How did this sophisticated machinery evolve? A team led by Associate Professor Fabai Wu from the College of Science at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo has found answers in a group of marine archaea.On

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

2025-10-29

Academician Xueliang Sun's Team Proposes a New Paradigm for Solid-State Electrolyte Design

In liquid electrolytes, salts are “dissolved” by solvents, allowing ions to move freely. In solids, however, everything appears static and “dissolution” should not occur. Yet, this research precisely makes solids “learn” to “dissolve”.A research team from Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo has discovered a class of halide van der Waals materials. These materials act like “solid solvents,” disassembling metal salts into freely mobile ionswithinthe solid structure—a phenomenon they termSolid

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

2025-10-20

Research Progress | Worried About Parkinson's Disease? Act Early by Monitoring This Biomarker

A team led by Chair Professor Zongwei Cai at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (EIT) has discovered a significant elevation of sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) levels in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of Parkinsons disease (PD) patients. This alteration is closely associated with the regulation of its upstream switch, sphingosine kinase 1 (SPHK1). Further research suggests that S1P plays a critical role in amplifying neuroinflammation and facilitating the pathological aggregation of α-synuclei

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

2025-10-17

Research Progress | Breaking Ionic Conductivity Records: Academician Xueliang Sun's Team Featured in Science

What if electric vehicles and low-altitude aircraft could operate stably in extreme cold as low as -50°C, completely eliminating battery anxiety? This vision may soon become reality.A team led by Academician Xuejiang, Chair Professor of Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (EIT), Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in collaboration with collaborators, has developed a new superionic conductor that offers a novel technological pathway toward high-performance all-solid-state ba

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

2025-10-10

Research Progress | On-Chip "Custom-Made" Photons by Fei Ding's Team Published in PRL

If quantum information is a message, then photons are the ideal messengers.How can we instruct this messenger precisely where to go (direction), in what form (polarization), and how loudly to speak (intensity)? A team led by Associate Professor Fei Ding from EIT Ningbo, in collaboration with partners, has turned this idea into reality.Recently, the team of Associate Professor Fei Ding from the College of Information Science and Technology, along with collaborators, has for the first time realize

COLLEGE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2025-09-17

Research Progress | Latest Research from Academician Xueliang Sun's Team Published in Nature Chemistry

Research Progress | Latest Research from Academician Xueliang Sun’s Team Published in Nature ChemistryOn August 4, Academician Xueliang Sun’s team at EIT Ningbo published a study titled “Solid solvation structure design improves all-solid-state organic batteries” inNature Chemistry. The work reports the use of n-type organic small-molecule cathode materials as “solvents,” incorporating dual ions to construct a heteronuclear solid solvation structure. This approach activates a ligand-metal-ligand

College of Engineering

2025-08-07

Research Progress | Hao Zhang's Team Breaks Projection Limit of Mesoscale Structured Illumination

Research Progress | Hao Zhang’s Team Breaks Projection Limit of Mesoscale Structured IlluminationRecently, a research team led by Assistant Professor Hao Zhang from the College of Engineering of EIT Ningbo, with collaborators, published their latest study titled “Pyramidal lens enables mesoscale structured illumination by surpassing the spatial bandwidth limit of spatial light modulators” inOptica, a top-tier international optics journal.Inspired by photographic beam-splitting attachments, the t

College of Engineering

2025-08-06

Research Progress | Fei Ding's Team Achieves Breakthroughs in Metasurface-Based Diffractive Neural Networks

Research Progress | Fei Ding’s Team Achieves Breakthroughs in Metasurface-Based Diffractive Neural NetworksRecently, a team led by Associate Professor Fei Ding from the School of Electronic Science and Technology in the College of Information Science and Technology at EIT Ningbo has made a series of breakthroughs in the fields of polarization-selective diffractive neural networks and multi-degree-of-freedom multiplexed diffractive neural networks based on metasurfaces. The results have been publ

College of Information Science and Technology

2025-07-28

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