In the latest Nature Index(data from March 1st, 2021 to February 28th, 2022), DHU ranks 47thamong Chinese mainland universities and 202ndworldwide. The latter is increased by 36 compared to last year.Nature Index, first released in November, 2014, is a major reference for academic performance evaluation of research institutions. It mainly calculates the number of research papers published in 82 jo...

Dr. Malcolm Xing, an alumnus of the College of Textiles of DHU, was elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering in the Academy’s 2022 Annual General Meeting on June 13th, 2022. This year, 47 new Fellows, 6 new international Fellows and 1 Honorary Fellow were elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Xing currently serves asa Professor in the Mechanical Engineering at the Universi...

Professor Yang Guang’s research team of DHU recently publishedan academic paper titled “High-Performance Wigs via the Langmuir–Blodgett Deposition of Keratin/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite” in ACS Applied Materials Interfaces.The team developed a new strategy for surface coating of wigs via the Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) technique using a nanocomposite composed of hair-derived keratin and graphene o...

11 majors of DHU were selected as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites and 1 as the provincial first-class undergraduate major construction site according to the lists of national and provincial undergraduate major construction sites in 2021 recently issued by the General Office of the Ministry of Education of China (MOE). Up to now, 29 majors of DHU, 52.7% of all the majors...

The National Ophthalmological Optics Technical Branch Committee of the National Ophthalmic Optometry Standardization Committee of China was approved to be established according to the Announcement of Systematic Optimization Results of Light Industry Standardization Technical Organizations by Standardization Administration of the People’s Republic of China(SAC), the 10thannouncement issued in 2022...

Recently, the 2022 International Conference on Frontier Materials, organized by the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS), was held online. Three awards were given at the conference: the IUMRS Frontier Materials Scientist Award, the IUMRS Frontier Materials Young Scientist Award and the IUMRS Frontier Materials Graduate Student Award. From the College of Materials Science and...

Recently, the 8th Oriental Design Forum and 2022 International Conference Metaverse and Innovative Design, jointly sponsored by the International Society for Design Science, Shanghai Education Committee of Master of Fine Art, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was held online. More than 200 paper representatives, specially invited guests and media reporters nationwide and from Germany, the United ...

On the afternoon of May 23, the non-governmental diplomacy event themed “Stay in Songjiang and Pioneer with Science and Technology Innovation”, hosted by Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association (SORSA) and jointly undertaken by SORSA Donghua University Branch and SORSA Songjiang Branch and the Joint Conference Office of the G60 ST Innovation Valley of Yangtze River Delta, and co-organize...

From May 19 to 22, 2022, the Beijing International Model United Nations 2022 (BIMUN) hosted by the China Foreign Affairs University under the guidance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education and the United Nations Association of China was held successfully online. During the four-day event, about 500 outstanding students from nearly 140 well-known universities and middle scho...

In 2022, a total of 98 teams of students from Donghua University signed up for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and won 35 titles of HonorableMention and above, including 7 for Finalist, 7 for Meritorious Winner, and 21 for HonorableMention, representing the best results in the history of Donghua University participating in the MCM. One of teams that won the title of Finalist is composed...

Professor Chen Zhigang and Professor Zhang Lisha’s research team of Donghua University produced a three-dimensional carbon aerogel from watermelon pulp, which can be used as an effective photothermal material for solar water desalination. The research result “Watermelon flesh-derived carbon aerogel with hierarchical porous structure for interfacial solar steam generation” is published in RRL So...

Researcher CaiDongqing’s group in the College of Environmental Science and Engineering has made a breakthrough in the preparation of slow-release fulvic acid functional fertilizer by catalytic degradation of waste bread, which provides a new thought for fertilization of waste bread and synergistic remediation of heavy metals in the environment. The research result was published in Chemical Engine...

DHU Professor Wang Huaping’s research team recently developed a stretchable fiber-based liquid sensor for “smart diapers”, which can monitor the status of diapers in real-time and send active alerts. The research result “Self-Stretchable Fiber Liquid Sensors Made with Bacterial Cellulose/Carbon Nanotubes for Smart Diapers” was published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. The article’s first aut...

Recently, Shanghai released for the first time the Top 10 Typical Cases of Intellectual Property Reform and Innovation in 2021. The case of Establishment of the first Comprehensive Service Platform for Copyright of Traditional Chinese Costumes in China by the Shanghai Hanfu Copyright Center in Donghua University wason the list.(Shanghai Hanfu Copyright Center)The Top 10 Typical Cases of Intellectu...