Peking University, Jan. 6, 2020:Water ices are ubiquitous in nature. The structure and growth of ice plays critical roles in an incredibly broad spectrum of materials science, tribology, biology, atmospheric science. As early as 1920s, Dennison, Bragg and Barnes studied the cryst...

Peking University, Dec. 17, 2019: Recently, Yu Haifeng’s group from College of Engineering, Peking University, developed a kind of flexible and controllable solar thermal fuel (STF) cell. The STF cell is a composite of commercial fabric template and room temperature photo-l...

Peking University, Dec. 3, 2019: Zhan Xiaowei’s group, from College of Engineering at Peking University, made new progress in nonfullerene acceptors for organic solar cells (OSCs), and developed new molecular design strategy of fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs), namely...

Peking University, Nov. 25, 2019: The outer atmosphere of the Sun, which extends outward for several million kilometers beyond the solar surface, is called the corona. Although the temperature in the core of the Sun is as high as 15 million degrees, it drops to a mere 5700 degree...

Peking University, Nov. 20, 2019: Harvesting energy from natural sources such as mechanical strain, motion, light, heat, and magnetic fields has become a research hotspot because of potential application for wearable, self-powered electronics and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) i...