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[ December 11, 2020] Accounts of Chemical Research reports progress in fused-ring electron acceptors from Xiaowei Zhan’s group
In this review, molecular design, device engineering, photophysics and applications of FREAs are discussed in detail, and the challenges and future research directions are also proposed.
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[ December 09, 2020] PKU researchers create super-resolution "street view" of intracellular organelles' interactions
This is the first time that researchers get the dynamics of lipid heterogeneity inside subcellular organelles with optical imaging technology.
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[ November 25, 2020] Seven faculty members from the College of Engineering named 2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics
Among the 6167 highly cited researchers in various fields from over 60 nations, 770 are from mainland China and 24 are from Peking University, including 7 from the College of Engineering.
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[ November 20, 2020] The 2020 CSTAM Doctoral Students’ Forum on Mechanics held at Peking University
The forum consists of plenary reports, keynote reports, and ordinary reports. Due to the epidemic, ten sub-forums were taking place online in addition to the five on-site forums.
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[ November 13, 2020] JACS reports butterfly effects and bottom-up design of fused-ring electron acceptors from Xiaowei Zhan’s group
The research revealed butterfly effects in fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) and proposed bottom-up design of high-performance FREAs.
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[ November 04, 2020] Three researchers from the College of Engineering awarded the 2020 NSF Outstanding Young Researchers Fund
The award is a special science fund established by Natural Science Foundation (NSF) of China to recognize outstanding young scientists and researchers who have entered the forefront of world science and technology.
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[ October 27, 2020] A breakthrough of the mechanism of energy saving in collective swimming
Prof. Guangming Xie's group in the College of Engineering has found a simple yet previous unknown rule, explaining how do schooling fish save energy in collective motion.
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[ October 27, 2020] Qiushi Ren’s group from Peking University makes new progress on multi-material decomposition in spectral computed tomography
A novel deep-learning based method was proposed and carefully examined, which has been published on the journal, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, entitled “PMS-GAN: Parallel Multi-Stream Generative Adversarial Network for Multi-Material Decomposition in Spectral Computed Tomography”.
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[ October 27, 2020] PRL reports new progress in understanding the negatively charged hydrophobic interface from Prof. Mohan Chen and his collaborators
The research team combines optical experiments with first-principles molecular dynamics simulations and proposes new insights into the microscopic origins of accumulations of OH- ions at the hydrophobic interface.
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[ October 23, 2020] Professor Sir Jim McDonald of the Royal Academy of Engineering gives an online lecture to the College of Engineering
The lecture serves as a lesson of the course “Introduction to Modern Engineering”, a compulsory course for all engineering freshmen, which is designed to invite outstanding academics and experts from outside the university to help broaden the students’ vision.