​The reason for the high case fatality ratio (CFR) in critical COVID-19 patients is not completely clear. Through the screening and clinical research on 48 patients enrolled from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Zhongnan Hospital of WHU and Leishenshan Hospital, it was found that the incidence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in critically ill patients was as high as 85.4%, which may contribute t...

Recently, Nature Communications published online the latest findings on the synthesis of fluoroalkyl alcohols via 1-silyl fluoroethanol by Professor Shen Xiao’s research group from the Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University. The 1- (phenyl dimethylsilyl) -fluoroethanol developed by the team was used as the fluoroethanolization reagent, and the allylation, alkylation and alkenization ...

Recently, Nature Communications published the latest research findings on artificial adhesion regulation by Liu Ze and Shui Langquan’s team from the School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University. This research represents a simple and practical way to design and control surface adhesion in relevant applications.The paper is entitled Rapid and continuous regulating adhesion strength by mechanica...

On May 19, Nature Communications published an article by Professor Fu Lei, introducing a silver-based buffer strategy raised by his team. This work develops a way to prepare a new type of ultrathin high dielectric constant antimony oxide single crystal, which provides a general method for the growth of ultrathin single crystal oxide. The paper, entitled Ultrathin high-κ antimony oxide single c...

On May 12, Cell Stem Cell published the latest research findings of Prof. Zhang Haojian’s team from the Frontier Science Center for Immunology and Metabolism and the Medical Research Institute, Wuhan University. The research introduces the molecular mechanism of how ALKBH5 selectively regulates the function of leukemia stem cells, which is of great significance for the clinical treatment of ta...

Nature Materials recently published the latest research findings of Prof. Fu Lei from Wuhan University’s College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. The article, entitled Bandgap tuning of two-dimensional materials by sphere diameter engineering, shows Wuhan University as the first author affiliation.Zeng Mengqi, associate research fellow, and Liu Jinxin, a PhD student of the class of 2017, b...

The research team led by Liu Zhengyou, Qiu Chunyin and Ke Manzhu, from the School of Physics and Technology of Wuhan University, has successively published two research achievements in the field of topological acoustics. One paper entitled "Observation of quadratic Weyl points and double-helicoid arcs" was published in Nature Communications. Another paper titled "Symmetry-enforced three-dimensi...

The international authoritative journal Journal of the American Chemical Society recently published the latest research findings by the team of Prof.Wang Cheng of College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University. The result represents a general and straightforward way to expand the diversity of tetrahedral nodes for constructing 3D covalent organic frameworks (3D COFs).The paper is...