Professor Qiming Sun of Soochow University and Researcher Manyi Yang of Nanjing University successfully achieved confined loading of highly dispersed Pt-FeO_x nanoparticles within nanosheet molecular sieves. This catalyst exhibited excellent catalytic performance in the dehydrogenation of methylcyclohexane and the hydrogenation of toluene, realizing hydrogen energy storage and release mediated by the "methylcyclohexane-toluene" reaction. The study shows that the Pt-FeO_x catalyst possesses excellent mass transfer performance; the introduction of FeO_x not only significantly lowers the activation energy barrier of the CH bond in methylcyclohexane but also regulates the formation of electron-rich Pt active sites to promote toluene desorption, while effectively inhibiting the aggregation and sintering of Pt nanoparticles, thereby significantly improving the structural and reaction stability of the catalyst. This work demonstrates the application potential of nanosheet molecular sieve-confined metal catalysts in organic liquid hydrogen storage reactions, contributing to the rational design and development of efficient catalytic systems for hydrogen energy technologies. The article was published as an open access Research Article in CCS Chemistry, the flagship journal of the Chinese Chemical Society.

An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new way that could speed up the healing of chronic wounds infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Published in Science Advances, the study done with collaborators at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, shows how a common bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis), actively prevents wound healing. The team also demonstrated how neutralising this biological process can allow skin cells to recover and close wounds.

Research about LENN -- a patent-pending, virus-mimicking platform technology that targets bladder cancer cells with mRNA therapies -- highlights compelling features of the system with respect to size, targetability, encapsulation efficiency, complex stability, gene expression, and “green” manufacturability.

Durotomy frequently results in cerebrospinal fluid leakage, leading to serious secondary complications. Tissue adhesives have become a popular alternative to sutures for achieving rapid, watertight sealing of dural tears. However, current materials cause excessive swelling and unwanted tissue adhesion. Now, researchers have developed an innovative monolithic Janus patch using a simple method that enables rapid sealing of dural tears through low-energy visible-light activation, while exhibiting minimal swelling (reduced mass effect) and excellent biocompatibility.

As global data traffic soars, transmitting information with light instead of electrical signals is becoming crucial for moving more data with much less power. Scientists in China have overcome a long-standing bottleneck in this area by growing high-quality barium titanate films on an industry-friendly platform and demonstrating a compact on-chip modulator. Their device switches light efficiently with small electrical signals at high speeds, enabling dense, energy-efficient optical links in future data centers and communication systems. 

Researchers have reported a zero-dimensional metal halide that switches its fluorescence ON through two independent pathways: pressure induces a structural transition to bright orange emission, while DMF solvent exposure activates intense yellow luminescence with 97% quantum yield. The solvent-driven “ON” state is fully reversible by mild heating, offering excellent cycling stability. This dual-stimuli response enables high-sensitivity DMF detection, advanced optical encryption, and reconfigurable logic operations.

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) aid the body against autoimmune diseases and cancer, among other things. Patients have to pick up the medicine every few weeks. It would be easier for them to be able to inject the medicine themselves at home, but this would only be possible if the medications were highly concentrated but not too viscous. A team at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, led by Professor Lars Schäfer from the Center for Theoretical Chemistry and the company Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma have developed a quick and realistic simulation method to make this possible. This method can predict how formulations will behave. The team reports its findings in the Journal of Physical Chemistry from December 7, 2025.

An international team of astronomers, including researcher from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has uncovered the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio burst (FRB) sources—brief but powerful flashes of radio waves from distant galaxies—reside in binary stellar systems. This means the FRB source is not an isolated star, as previously assumed, but part of a binary stellar system in which two stars orbit each other.

Researchers have developed a novel data-driven Faraday polarimetric decoupling method, offering a robust technical solution to the challenge of atomic density fluctuations inatomic gyroscopes. The study, published in Defence Technology, introduces a framework that integrates finite-element simulation with neural networks to isolate density disturbances from signal measurements.