All industries are inseparable from materials. Look at the three major opportunities for the domestic new material industry

According to industry statistics, the import rate of new materials in China is as high as 86%, and the self-sufficiency rate is only 14%. In the foreign embargo list against China, it mainly involves special materials and related equipment, material processing, electronic equipment, computer equipment, communication and information security, sensors and lasers, navigation and aerospace electronic equipment, ships, aerospace and propulsion, etc. Nine major areas, which involve a large number of material (or component) issues, process issues and equipment issues.

Improve tenfold! Researchers have developed a new type of organic luminescent material, which can assist biological imaging

News on December 27, 2021, recently, a team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has introduced a new method of manufacturing luminous materials that they believe can reduce the reliance on inorganic crystals derived from rare earth materials. The team used the method to create a glow-in-the-dark effect using readily available organic materials.

Nano-palladium particles turn into tiny 'hydrogen storage tanks' and release hydrogen again with just a little heat

An innovative approach could turn nanoparticles into simple storehouses for storing hydrogen gas. The highly volatile gas is considered a promising energy carrier for the future, providing climate-friendly fuel for things like planes, ships and trucks, and allowing for climate-friendly steel and cement production - depending on how the hydrogen is produced . However, storing hydrogen is costly: either the gas is kept in pressurized tanks at up to 700 bar, or it has to be liquefied, which means cooling it to minus 253 degrees Celsius, both processes that consume additional energy.

Break the Japanese monopoly profiteering, and make the ITO target into the price of cabbage! Inseparable from this Henan academician

In the past, the research and development of ITO targets in my country lagged behind foreign countries for 20 years, and the density of ITO targets produced was low, which could not meet the high-end display industry’s requirements for the quality of targets, so 90% of them needed to be imported from abroad; but now this situation has happened Change, the ITO target material developed by Academician He Jilin's team not only reached international standards in important technical indicators, realized import substitution, but also reduced the price of the Japanese target material market by 80%! Originally sold in China for 8,000 yuan per kilogram, after breaking the monopoly, the price dropped directly to 1,300 yuan per kilogram.

This starfish robot can transform and heal itself like a real starfish

Natural camouflage is one of nature's most interesting features. Materials scientists have now developed a material that mimics the camouflage abilities of marine mollusks. They created a starfish-shaped soft robot that deforms, moves and changes color in response to heat and pressure. Severed tentacles can be welded together and the material can be completely recycled, they write in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

A new partner of new energy - carbon materials Inventory of the top ten carbon material leading enterprises

With the rapid development of science and technology, life is being changed by green energy. The sparkling photovoltaic panels, the incomparably tall wind power generation, and the lithium batteries that fill all aspects of life are all full of infinite vitality, and the development of these new energy sources, regardless of whether The production of photovoltaic panels, the production of wind power impellers, or the production of lithium batteries is inseparable from a unique material, that is, carbon materials.