This is a 2 cm long flexible gadget that weighs only 0.3 grams. It can move freely, go up and down steep slopes, carry heavy loads, adapt to all kinds of surfaces and endure extreme temperature.Recently, Professor Xue Longjian's research group (NISE-Lab) from the School of Power and Mechanical Engineering (WHU) and the Institute of Technological Sciences (WHU) has developed Geca-Robot, an extre...

Constructing a heterostructure with sonic crystals that contains valley index, Liu Zhengyou’s team achieves a valley-locked acoustic topological waveguide transport. This research, entitled Valley-locked waveguide transport in acoustic heterostructures, was published in Nature Communications. Wuhan University is the sole signatory, with doctoral graduate Wang Mudi as the first author and Prof....

​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...