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Diligent female chemist steeps in scientific innovation

STORY: Diligent female chemist steeps in scientific innovation DATELINE: Oct. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:01 LOCATION: CHANGCHUN, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Yu's lab 2. various of Yu and her students 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YU JIHONG, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of chemistry at Jilin University 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YU JIHONG, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of chemistry at Jilin University 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): CHI QIANWEN, Yu's student STORYLINE: Yu Jihong, a delegate to the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is known for her technological breakthrough in developing a new type of lithium(Li)-air battery. This flexible zeolite electrolyte solid-state Li-air battery has huge application potentials in flexible electronics and automobile power systems. For more than three decades, Yu's team has made continuous efforts to develop zeolite-based materials. Though traditional studies of zeolites

CHINA-BEIJING-20TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS-DELEGATE-CHEMIST (CN)

CHINA-BEIJING-20TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS-DELEGATE-CHEMIST (CN)

(221001) -- CHANGCHUN, Oct. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yu Jihong works in a laboratory at Jilin University in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 16, 2022. Yu Jihong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, showed a thin "card" with high flexibility. It may be hard to imagine that it is a new type of lithium(Li)-air battery. TO GO WITH "Profile: Diligent female chemist steeps in scientific innovation" (Xinhua)

CHINA-BEIJING-20TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS-DELEGATE-CHEMIST (CN)

CHINA-BEIJING-20TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS-DELEGATE-CHEMIST (CN)

(221001) -- CHANGCHUN, Oct. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yu Jihong works in a laboratory at Jilin University in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 16, 2022. Yu Jihong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, showed a thin "card" with high flexibility. It may be hard to imagine that it is a new type of lithium(Li)-air battery. TO GO WITH "Profile: Diligent female chemist steeps in scientific innovation" (Xinhua)

CHINA-BEIJING-20TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS-DELEGATE-CHEMIST (CN)

CHINA-BEIJING-20TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS-DELEGATE-CHEMIST (CN)

(221001) -- CHANGCHUN, Oct. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yu Jihong (C) discusses with her students at Jilin University in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 16, 2022. Yu Jihong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, showed a thin "card" with high flexibility. It may be hard to imagine that it is a new type of lithium(Li)-air battery. TO GO WITH "Profile: Diligent female chemist steeps in scientific innovation" (Xinhua)

CHINA-BEIJING-20TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS-DELEGATE-CHEMIST (CN)

CHINA-BEIJING-20TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS-DELEGATE-CHEMIST (CN)

(221001) -- CHANGCHUN, Oct. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yu Jihong (2nd, L) instructs her students at Jilin University in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 16, 2022. Yu Jihong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, showed a thin "card" with high flexibility. It may be hard to imagine that it is a new type of lithium(Li)-air battery. TO GO WITH "Profile: Diligent female chemist steeps in scientific innovation" (Xinhua)