tsinghua university – Shamskm: A site to exchange knowledge and solutions

Walmart, JD.com, IBM and Tsinghua University Launch a Blockchain Food Safety Alliance in China

By Guest PostDecember 14, 2017Technologyblockchain food safety, bridget van kralingen, China, frank yiannas, ibm, jd, tsinghua university, walmart, yongli yu

Collaboration to apply blockchain technology for food traceability to support offline and online consumers

BEIJING – 14 Dec 2017: Walmart (NYSE: WMT), JD.com (NASDAQ: JD), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Tsinghua University National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies announced today they will work together in a Blockchain Food Safety Alliance that will kick off with a collaboration designed to enhance food tracking, traceability and safety in China, to achieve greater transparency across the food supply chain. (more…)

New ceramic nanofiber ‘sponges’ could be used for flexible insulation, water purification

By Guest PostOctober 2, 2017Scienceceramic nanofiber, huajian gao, insulation, sponges, tsinghua university, water purification

Ceramic materials tend to shatter when deformed, but new research shows a way of using ultra-thin ceramic nanofibers to make squishy, heat-resistant sponges with a wide variety of potential uses. (more…)

Walmart, IBM and Tsinghua University Explore the Use of Blockchain to Help Bring Safer Food to Dinner Tables Across China

By Guest PostOctober 19, 2016Technologyblockchain, bridget van kralingen, China, chinese consumers, frank yiannas, hyperledger project fabric, ibm, linux foundation, safer food, tsinghua university, walmart

Global retailer joins pilot project with academics and technology experts to showcase leadership in food traceability efforts

BEIJING – 19 Oct 2016: As Walmart opened its new Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center in Beijing today, IBM, Walmart and Tsinghua University announced a collaboration to improve the way food is tracked, transported and sold to consumers across China. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology designed to generate transparency and efficiency in supply chain record-keeping, this work aims to help enhance the safety of food on the tables of Chinese consumers. (more…)

On the Road to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

By Guest PostOctober 11, 2013Sciencealexei fedorov, berkeley lab, bi2se3, bismuth strontium, calcium copper oxide, China, decoherence problem, Environment, eryin wang, fault tolerant, hao ding, high temperature superconductivity, majorana zero mode, mysterious quasiparticle, quantum computing, quantum data bit, qubit, shuyun zhou, supercomputer, topological surface state, tsinghua university, xi chen, xray photons

Collaboration at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source Induces High Temperature Superconductivity in a Toplogical Insulator

Reliable quantum computing would make it possible to solve certain types of extremely complex technological problems millions of times faster than today’s most powerful supercomputers. Other types of problems that quantum computing could tackle would not even be feasible with today’s fastest machines. The key word is “reliable.” If the enormous potential of quantum computing is to be fully realized, scientists must learn to create “fault-tolerant” quantum computers. A small but important step toward this goal has been achieved by an international collaboration of researchers from China’s Tsinghua University and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). (more…)

China has potential to be leader in global sustainability

By Guest PostAugust 13, 2013Environmentair pollutants, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon emissions, carbon intensive industries, cement, China, dabo guan, domestic energy market, douglas crawford brown, electrical grids, energy, global sustainability, great britain, jianguo jack liu, kebin he, leader, michigan state university, steel, tsinghua university, united states, zhu liu

China, with its enormous cities and vast countryside, is a potential star in the ongoing global drama of slashing carbon emissions.

In this week’s Nature, a Michigan State University researcher and an international team of sustainability experts propose a script.

China already is a star in unleashing carbon dioxide emissions. In 2011, it accounted for a quarter of the world’s total. The problems – air pollution, squandered energy resources and economic stresses that squelch growth – also come with tremendous opportunity for China to be leader in slashing emissions. Along the way, China’s vast variety of economic and geographic circumstances offers a chance to set examples for its global neighbors. (more…)

High-speed rail study finds that remote cities benefit from connection to global hubs

By Guest PostMarch 26, 2013Technologybakersfield, bullet trains, cangzhou, China, environmental economist, hang lung center, high speed, los angeles, matthew kahn, megacities like beijing, palmdale, qinhuangdao, quality of life, rail system, second tier, second tier cities, shijiazhuang, siqi zheng, tsinghua university, ucla, water pollution, yangquan

Bullet trains fuel real-estate booms, improve quality of life and create other unintended consequences by sharply reducing commute times from smaller cities to large megacities, economists from UCLA and China’s Tsinghua University observed in a new study in China. A similar dynamic, they said, could play out as California builds its own high-speed rail system.

Because high-speed rail effectively brings cities closer together by reducing travel times, it allows people to enjoy many of the benefits of big cities while living in “second-tier” cities far from the pollution and congestion. By making second-tier cities attractive to those who would otherwise flock to global hubs, bullet trains could act as a safety valve for crowded megacities in the developing world and ease the effects of overpopulation, the study authors report. (more…)

Going Big

By Guest PostJuly 23, 2012Scienceamanda wu, behavior of materials, carbon nanotube, China, chou research group, composite applications, fiber, force, go big, macroscale, nanoscale, sensor, strain, strain rate, tsinghua university, tsu wei chou, university of delaware, van der waals, weibang lu

UD researchers report progress in development of carbon nanotube-based continuous fibers

The Chou research group in the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering recently reported on advances in carbon nanotube-based continuous fibers with invited articles in Advanced Materials and Materials Today, two high impact scientific journals.

According to Tsu-Wei Chou, Pierre S. du Pont Chair of Engineering, who co-authored the articles with colleagues Weibang Lu and Amanda Wu, there has been a concerted scientific effort over the last decade to “go big” – to translate the superb physical and mechanical properties of nanoscale carbon nanotubes to the macroscale. (more…)

MU Researcher Says Chinese Credit Market Remains Underdeveloped

By Guest PostAugust 4, 2010EconomyBeijing, China, chinese credit market, chinese government, chinese households, credit market, economic policies, rui yao, tsinghua university, university of missouri, urban chinese households

*Survey reveals urban Chinese households maintain high saving rates and are unwilling to utilize credit*

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Chinese government has made several reforms to its economic policies in recent years. Despite these reforms, a new study shows that Chinese households are not utilizing their credit market to its fullest extent. Rui Yao, a researcher in the department of Personal Financial Planning in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Missouri, says a recent survey of urban Chinese households shows that the Chinese credit market remains underdeveloped.

(more…)

Tag Archives: tsinghua university