SIAT Research
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Nov 18, 2020Magnetic Spray: Giving Inanimate Objects New BionergyResearchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), have developed an agglutinate, rep... Millirobots that can adapt to unstructured environments, operate in confined spaces, and interact with a diverse range of objects would be desirable for exploration and biomedical applications. How... -
Oct 26, 2020Scientists Quantify Dramatic Uneven Urbanization of Large Cities throughout the World in Recent DecadesScientists addressed the following questions: (i) How have global large cities developed in recent decades in terms of urban expansion, population growth, and urban greenness change? (ii) What are ... According to the latest report from the United Nations (UN), the global population will reach 9.7 billion, and 68% of the population will live in urban areas in 2050. Undoubtedly, urban sustainable... -
Oct 19, 2020“SIAT aPET”: New Small Animal PET Scanner Achieves High Spatial Resolution and High Sensitivity SimultaneouslyA research team led by Dr. YANG Yongfeng, and the co-first authors KUANG Zhonghua, Dr. WANG Xiaohui from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences dev... Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important tool for studying the animal model of human diseases and the development of the new drugs and new therapies.The spatial resolution and sensitivity... -
Oct 16, 2020Researchers Find Lung Distribution of Antivirals Matters in COVID-19 TreatmentResearchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences collaborated with Rutgers University compared pharmacokinetics profiles of these drugs and ... Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has killed over 1,000,000 people around the world. It is impossible to create novel... -
Oct 12, 2020Research Find the Potential of Manganese(II) Texaphyrins to Serve As Effective Contrast AgentsA team led by Dr. LIU Chengbo from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had realized that the tumor-specific photoacoustic molecular imaging both... Traditional texaphyrin exhibits merit like long absorption wavelength, high light absorption and light quenching coefficients. The paramagnetic cationic manganese located in the center of texaphyri... -
Sep 28, 2020Researchers Propose New Multi-Switch Regulation Methodology for Energy ManipulationResearchers proposed an alternative approach: writing a program for triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), which is fundamentally different from conventional one. A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a self-powered, feasible solution to convert mechanical energy into electricity and specifically satisfy the increasing demand of the internet of things (IoT... -
Sep 25, 2020Scientists Construct High-strength Microtube by Coaxial Printing with Customized Biohybird Hydrogel InkA research team led by Dr. RUAN Changshun from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences constructed a high-strength microtube by coaxial printing wit... Coaxial extrusion printing has been developing toward generating microtubes for mimicking tubular tissues these years. However, these generated microtubes with insufficient mechanical properties an... -
Sep 11, 2020How Does Chronic Stress Induce Bone Loss?Researchers found that a central neural circuit from the forebrain to the hypothalamus mediates chronic stress-induced bone loss via the peripheral sympathetic nervous system. Clinical studies have found that bone mineral density in patients with anxiety or depression is lower than in ordinary people.The brain, commander of the body, receives and processes external signa...