A research team has conducted an extensive study to explore the key factors affecting coffee production in the Gedeo Zone of southern Ethiopia.

Anthocyanins are essential plant pigments that determine fruit coloration and contribute to stress protection and human nutrition. 

Professor Yongzhe Wun's team at East China University of Science and Technology significantly improved the interfacial contact and mechanical stability of inverted perovskite solar cells by constructing triphenylamine-based co-assembled hole transport monolayers. This work addressed key issues such as poor interfacial wettability and insufficient mechanical stability of traditional carbazole-based self-assembled monolayers (e.g., Me-4PACz) in inverted perovskite solar cells. They designed and synthesized a series of multi-legged triphenylamine derivatives (TPA-nCPA) containing cyanoethylphosphonic acid anchoring groups and innovatively proposed a co-assembly strategy with Me-4PACz. Rigid devices fabricated based on this strategy achieved an excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency of 26.27%, while flexible devices achieved an efficiency of 22.38%. Furthermore, after 5000 cycles at a 5mm bending radius, they maintained 90% of their initial efficiency, demonstrating outstanding mechanical stability. The article was published as an open access research article in CCS Chemistry, the flagship journal of the Chinese Chemical Society.

Plant based molecules found in everyday foods and herbs could help rescue older antibiotics from rising drug resistance, according to a new study that points to a simple way to boost the power of existing medicines against tough Escherichia coli infections.​

A new study highlights a promising path toward sustainable hydrogen peroxide production using sunlight, oxygen, and water, offering a cleaner alternative to the energy-intensive anthraquinone process that dominates global manufacturing today.

White-skinned grapes were long believed to originate from a single mutation event, but new genomic evidence overturns this assumption. 

Increased extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness, a hallmark of risk in cardiovascular disease (CVD), is closely associated with inflammation triggered by immune cell infiltration in the vessel wall.

With the rapid revolution in super-resolution microscopy, the resolution of far-field optical microscopy has entered the sub-nanometer era, providing new insights into macromolecules in vitro and in situ.