China grid scale storage 2012-2016 In 2012, China’s electric grid will become the largest in the world in terms of both installed generation capacity and electricity produced. China also possesses the world’s largest installed wind power base and the world’s largest declared investment in renewable energy. Based on their market research, Green Tech Media and Azure International, are claiming …
Chinese Research Developed New Nano Lithium Titanate Material
A research team from Fudan University led by Prof. Xia Yongyao successfully developed new nano lithium titanate material of high electronic conductivity for better and safer lithium-ion batteries. Combination of solid-phase synthesis techniques and carbon-coating technology is applied in this research. The new lithium-ion battery can be used for storage of large scale energy from, for example, solar and wind. …
Why isn’t there a Mark Zuckerberg in China?
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, founder of Innovation Works and previously founding president of Google China, gives his thoughts on this question in his blog on CaiJing. He makes the case that the Chinese education system is more focused on depth rather than breadth. Chinese students might excel at math and engineering, they often need many years after their study to become …
China’s R&D roadmap Silicon Carbide for power electronic devices utilization
The Chinese Smart Grid Research Institute of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) pays high attention on Silicon Carbide (SiC) R&D and its application for power electronic devices and switches. During the China International Conference on Electricity Distribution 2012 in Shanghai on 5-9 September, Prof. Kunshan YU, Director of the New Materials and Microelectronics department of SGCC, revealed an ambitious …
Vice-minister Buijink visits Huawei in Shanghai
Today vice-minister Buijink visited Huawei in Shanghai. He had a meeting with mr. Zhang, Senior vice president of Huawei. The topics that they spoke about were among others experiences from Huawei in the Netherlands, the Dutch High-Tech knowledge and the cooperation and possible expansion with ACE. Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services …
Sino-Dutch Chemistry & Materials Seminar
On monday 24th of September a seminar with the topic on “The role of chemistry for future, advanced materials science” has taken place in Shanghai. H.E. Mr. Chris Buijink, Vice Minister Economic affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (EL&I), officially opened the seminar. Participation in the seminar came from representatives from government, chemistry & materials companies and research institutes. In total there …
Leiden University Medical Center and Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health to start collaboration
The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), an institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have announced the start of a collaboration project. The two parties will investigate and identify possible lead compounds for treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertention and fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva by using patient-derived pluripotent stem cells. Pulmonary arterial hypertention …
Enter the VC Dragon
Entrepreneurs looking for funding this year, might find a more difficult time getting a decent valuation. Venture capitalists (VCs) are much more cautious. Startups wanting to find out more about the current VC climat might like to join the event organized by Silicon Dragon next week (september 13). They have invited a range of top VCs in Shanghai, including Steamboat …
Novel principle of seeded free electron lasers – Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics
Scientists at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrated a novel principle of seeded free electron lasers, Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation (EEHG) on Shanghai Deep UV Free Electron Laser (SDUV-FEL) facility. The result was published on Nature Photonics, Vol.6, No.6, 360-363, 2012. The recent work done by the SINAP FEL team shows the first lasing of a …
Self-Healing Supramolecular Gels Developed at Zhejiang University
A research group at Zhejiang University headed by Prof. Huang Feihe recently developed a supramolecular gel with self-repair function, featuring large deformation and short recovery time. A relative paper was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Supramolecular gels are formed by colloidal particles tangling with non-covalent interactions. For the first time in the world, the research group headed by Prof. …