In a recent review published in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, a research team led by Associated Prof. WANG Peng from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro from Imperial College London, provided a comprehensive overview of ethanol as a renewable carbon source for producing various high-value products, offering new perspectives for the development of eco-friendly industrial biotechnology processes.
Nitrite (NO₂⁻) is commonly used as a food additive, but when ingested, it can harm the body's oxygen transport system. The World Health Organization (WHO) limits NO₂⁻ to 1.0 mg/L in drinking water and 30 mg/kg in meat products. However, current nitrite detection methods are often complicated, expensive, visually imprecise, or time-consuming.
Recently, Prof. HUANG Qing’group from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied the new functions of ganoderic acids. They discovered that a compound called ganoderic acid A (GAA) could help fight cancer by targeting glucose transporters, proteins that cancer cells use to take in sugar.
Recently, a collaborative research team led by Prof. WANG Hui and Prof. QIAN Junchao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences utilized the Stable High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) and successfully designed a catalytically active, photoresponsive Fe-doped carbon nanoparticles (FDCN) for the purpose of the second near infrared (NIR-II) photothermal-enhanced chemodynamic therapy.
Recently, with the help of the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF), a research team led by Professor SHENG Zhigao at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, for the first time observed the strong nonlinear magnetic second harmonic generation (MSHG) induced by the ferromagnetic order in monolayer CrPS4.